We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come

I used to love exploring the Tate when I was a kid and the Tate was the Tate and not yet Tate Britain. In the stairwells down hung huge Stanley Spencer Resurrections, audacious, absorbing, overwhelming. This one, significantly from 1945, is apparently in Dundee, and shows the reunion of families – an image that speaks to our times also.

It’s the matter-of-factness that is so audacious. Spencer has the guts to take it absolutely literally. We will meet again, as somebody or other said recently. Even if we have to climb out of our graves to do it.

A sure and certain hope to you. Happy Easter!