Mark Whittall

Why does hypocrisy drive Jesus bananas?   I mean, throughout the gospels we see so many instances of Jesus being caring and compassionate...

It is Trinity Sunday. And the Trinity is all about … us. Maybe you thought I would say that the Trinity is all about God. Well, I’m not...

The Ascension of Jesus caught the disciples by surprise. They weren’t expecting it, and they didn’t understand it. So I guess if we’re...

The gospel that we just heard is a story about birth. It is a story about how God gives birth to her children, or to put it another way,...

Life is a tug of war between testing and trust. When you are in the wilderness, will you test or will you trust? And in whom will you...

How then shall we live? Last Sunday, Dennis reminded us that in the sermon on the mount, Jesus is calling for a change in heart, a change...

Once upon a time, some 3000 years ago, there was a poet who wandered out to look at the night skies. That poet saw the brightness of the...

This has been another crazy week. The new reality of life in a time of COVID-19 is sinking in. Words like social distancing and...

“What are you looking for?” These are the first words spoken by Jesus in the gospel of John. What are you looking for? What do you want...

One of the things I love about the English language is that our words are so flexible. You know what I mean? You can take a word and...