Mark Whittall

Last Sunday I spoke to you about my pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. We go on pilgrimage because we are looking for something less....

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...

“Jesus came and took her by the hand and lifted her up; then the fever left her and she began to serve them.” These words, taken from...

“Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go” “So Abram went.” An encounter as simple, as challenging, as powerful as that. For thousands of years,...

There is a recognition problem on the road to Emmaus. Jesus comes near to Cleopas and his companion and walks with them on the way, but...

Easter is just the beginning. Now I know that way we do things make it seem like Easter is more of an ending than a beginning. Easter...

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

“What has come into being in him is life, and the life is the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness...

There is a common thread running through our readings today, and that common thread is tears. Tears are the very human response to pain...