Weather forecasters have promised us the hottest summer on record this year. By the time you read this, we’ll be well into July and have some idea of whether the Mediterranean temperatures have arrived or not! But whether we are basking in glorious sunshine or sheltering under an umbrella, summer provides us with the opportunity for a break.

Did Jesus really rise from the dead? This question is guaranteed to provoke discussion! Some will quickly dismiss it as the stuff of fairy tales – ‘we can’t be expected to believe that sort of thing these days!’ One such was Frank Morrison, a lawyer who was so incensed at being asked to believe Jesus rose from the dead that he set out to write a book pulling to pieces the biblical accounts and disproving it once and for all.