Easter has things in common with Christmas. It is actually about Jesus, but fewer people know that. People will tell you it stems from a pagan festival and expect you to be shocked to the point of losing your faith. It starts earlier every year, chocolate eggs being in one supermarket the day after Boxing Day.

It is also about new life, the beginning of life. It is about the resurrection life. But what does that mean? Now there’s a theological question to ask. Well, I am not going to answer that question here. There are whole libraries full of books trying to answer that question. There have been schisms and rows about it. There may even have been denominations breaking up and being formed over it.