Robert Halfon: How my friend David Amess showed me the meaning of the Sermon on the Mount

To me, he was the original blue-collar Conservative, embodying the values of an Essex man – of decency and hard work. 

Orban v Brussels – and the rights of the nation state v the fundamentals of liberal democracy

The country’s Prime Minister is a classic cakeist – berating the EU on the one hand, but not seeking to leave on the other.

Michael Nazir-Ali: After the betrayal of democracy in Afghanistan, will other countries in the region ever trust the West again?

Sensing blood, the vultures are circling: ISIS is active already, and not only in the remoter parts of country.

Profile: The Church of England, afflicted by a central bureaucracy which is mounting a takeover bid

Liberal Anglicans are appalled by the plan launched by the Archbishops to attain salvation through House Churches.

Richard Holden: Why Labour’s grip on seats like mine weakened. And how we can strengthen our own everywhere.

This is a story of institutions, work and habits changing out of recognition – and how we can improve our position and the country once we’re heard.

Peter Lynas: The Government is digging itself deep into trouble over conversion therapy

So it has committed to banning something it is reluctant to define, and ending something that is already unlawful.

Music for Easter Sunday: Pascha nostrum

“Christ, our Paschal Lamb, has been sacrificed, alleluia; therefore, let us keep the feast by sharing the unleavened bread of uprightness and truth, alleluia.”

WATCH: Johnson’s Easter message. Jesus’ message “permeates through every aspect of daily life”

“Millions of good Samaritans – each of them showing what loving thy neighbour as thyself really looks like in twenty-first century Britain”.

Music for Holy Saturday: Recessit Pastor Noster

“Our Shepherd is departed, the fount of living water,/At whose passing the sun was darkened…Today the gates of death…as well our Saviour has destroyed.”

Sarah Ingham: After the Batley protests and on this Easter Saturday, a case for tolerating religious belief

In Britain, we don’t ‘do God’ too much. Should we go to church, most are not C of E, but C and E – Christmas and Easter.

Music for Good Friday: Tenebrae Factae Sunt

“There was darkness over the earth…and about the ninth hour Jesus cried aloud: ‘My God why hast thou forsaken me?’ ”

David Alton: The horror of this day, Good Friday, is a horror for our times

Turn a blind eye, and every one of the other 30 Articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be breached too.

Music for Maundy Thursday: Ubi caritas et amor

“Where charity and love are, there God is. Love of Christ has gathered us into one. Let us rejoice in Him and be glad.”

Profile: Danny Kruger, defender of Christian conservatism and traditional ideas of virtue

He wrote Cameron’s “Hug a Hoody” speech, and during the Barnard Castle affair leapt to the defence of Cummings.

Chris Whitehouse: One elderly recipient burst into tears with joy at the delivery. My own story of anti-communist smuggling.

In my case, the contraband was books – taken into then communist Czechoslovakia through a network linked to the charity Aid to the Church in Need.