Mark Whittall

Jesus is a great teacher. And like all great teachers, he has some tricks of the trade, ways of drawing us in and then surprising us with new ways of looking at life. Sometimes he does this by telling stories. Other times, he starts by saying something that we all agree with, but then he goes beyond it.   “You have heard it said”, he tells his audience, giving them something familiar, getting their heads nodding. “But I say to you,” he continues, and with this, he tells them

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

This week, this Holy Week, two worlds collided.  Two ways of life clashed.  Not for the first time.  Not for the last time. But there was...

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...

“What then are we to say about these things?” We’ve reached the climax of Paul’s letter to the Romans this morning, and there is a fork...

A few years ago, during Holy Week, the first ever image of a black hole was released. It caused quite a stir, not just in the scientific...

Is there a moment in your life when you knew, when you absolutely knew, deep down in your bones, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that you...

What does “God with us” look like? We’ve been building towards this. During Advent we sang O Come O Come Emmanuel, a song of longing for...

What does it mean to be baptized? Seems like a good question for today as we gather to celebrate the baptism of Wendy, something we’re...

“What is truth?” Today is the Sunday we call the Reign of Christ, or sometimes, Christ the King. It’s a curious feast day. It’s only...