June 2018 – Ever Upwards

I write this letter in the middle of Ascensiontide, a festival and season we often overlook between the more glamourous Easter and Pentecost.

At Easter we celebrate the glorious defeat of death by our risen Lord, and at Pentecost the tongues of flame shooting around the disciples; the day of birth of what we now know as the church.

By comparison, the Ascension can seem a bit low key, Jesus leaves the disciples, and gently floats up into heaven.

On my way home from t...