Mark Whittall

It is easy for our faith and our worship to remain on the surface. We sing uplifting songs, we talk about love, we pray to God when it’s convenient. Good Friday invites us to go deeper. Good Friday forces us to go deeper, to confront pain and suffering, to spend time in the darkness of our world and to consider whether our faith has the power to sustain us in the painful places of our lives.   We tend to live much of our lives on the surface. “Hi, how are you? Fine thanks. Ni

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...