Art meditations 

Celebrating the Ascension: Pieter de Grebber’s God inviting Jesus to sit at his right hand

The shame of the cross? Grünewald’s Isenheim Crucifixion

Paul Hobbs: Saint Mercy (from his series Unknown martyrs)

Reidersche Tafel: The women at the tomb and the Ascension

Joy and heartache:  Pontormo's The visitation

A monist nightmare: Edvard Munch's The scream

A model for all humanity: Mark Wallinger's Ecce Homo

Easter: the whole story: Hans Memling's Scenes from the Passion of Christ

Come and worship:  Vincenzo Foppa's The adoration of the kings

An Advent candle:  Alastair Gordon's Sacrament

A hope to die for:  Bill Viola's Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water)

Looking death in the eye:  Damien Hirst's The impossibility of death in the mind of someone living

Hope: Roger Wagner's Menorah

The footprints of Jesus: Caravaggio's Conversion of Saul

A personal pietà: Michelangelo's Florentine Pietà

The real Jesus: Fra Angelico's Christ in Limbo

Tracy Emin: My bed