Mark Whittall

This world can be an awful place. A place of pain and suffering. A place of injustice and oppression. A place where human beings...

There are two ways to live:  God’s way and the other way.  Which one are you going to choose?   That’s the essence of our readings...

The temple in Jerusalem was a busy place.  Thousands of people from all over would gather there, bustling in and out, bringing or buying...

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the...

Did you do the math? Six stone jars, twenty or thirty gallons each. That’s over a thousand bottles of wine! And in little Cana of...

"Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit...

Today on this third Sunday of Advent, we light a candle for joy. For we are people who were created for joy.   Our first three readings...

What truth do you belong to?   That’s not where we begin on this Sunday that we call the Reign of Christ.  But that’s where we’re...

Yesterday, on All Souls Day, at our beautiful choral evensong, we remembered those who have died.   Today, on All Saints Sunday, we...

The book of Job that we have been reading this past month is one of the most challenging, profound and, I dare say, relevant books of the...

On this day of Thanksgiving, let me start with a question:   Is thanksgiving a feeling or an action?   Or put another way, during this...

Last Saturday the five residents of Trinity House and I had a retreat together. It’s an important part of how we begin a new year of...

Sometimes Jesus speaks a word that remains so vivid, so pivotal in the imagination of the people who heard it, that when they wrote down...