Mark Whittall

Have you ever noticed how so many medical associations around the world, organizations like the World Health Organization and the...

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

I’ve often told parents of young children that if you want to teach your children about God, one of the best ways is to plant a garden....

For God so loved the world … It is one of the best known and most loved verses in the bible, for good reason.  John 3.16.  For God so...

From a high point in the old city of Jerusalem, our guide told us the story of King David who, because of the rebellion of his son...

Today is the fourth in a series of encounters with Jesus that we have been reading together during this season of Lent. First Nicodemus,...

I don’t know about you, but I struggle to make sense of the gospel that we just heard. On one level it is a tragic episode in human...

The juxtaposition on this Sunday of Jesus’ triumphant Palm Sunday entrance into Jerusalem with the long reading of the Passion of our...

Not long ago, I went out to a restaurant for dinner. It was a busy place, so we made a reservation in advance. When we arrived, I have...

Pilate understands power. It’s the air he breathes. He knows its structures, he knows its relationships. The exercise of power is the...