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Are you wondering how a Christian should respond to current events? What are we to think about a world that appears to be going absolutely mad? How are we to discern the signs of the times? In this podcast, featuring The Reverend Thomas Pelham, The Reverend Daniel French, The Reverend Doctor J.A. Franklin and the occasional guest, we attempt to give some answers. Email us at irreverendpod@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter @irreverendpod or on Telegram at https://t.me/irreverendpod. We also have a youtube channel which can be found by searching Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! If you would like to support the show, which can be done from £1.50 plus VAT per month, you can join our Patreon community. Please go to www.patreon.com/irreverend
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Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham, Jamie Franklin and Daniel French sit down to talk about the biggest news in church and state. This time, we look at the biggest "Holy Week Fails" on social media and discuss a recent report by the Bible Society which appears to indicate that Christianity is growing in the UK, particularly among young men. The Bible Society are calling this "The Quiet Revival". ORDER NOW JAMIE'S NEW BOOK THE GREAT RETURN! Please Support the Podcast! You m...
1With reason, argument and inconvenient facts, Church of England rev with a difference Jamie Franklin EXPLODES historian David Starkey's recent assault on Christianity which he gave on Andrew Gold's Heretics podcast. ORDER NOW JAMIE'S NEW BOOK THE GREAT RETURN! Please Support the Podcast! You make Irreverend possible. You can now support us on Substack! https://irreverendpod.substack.com/. Or support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffe...
Join rev with a difference Jamie Franklin, as he comments on Justin Welby's most recent public appearance alongside Laura Kuenssberg and notes the surprising influence of the hit Netflix show Adolescence within the Church of England! ORDER NOW JAMIE'S NEW BOOK THE GREAT RETURN! Please Support the Podcast! You make Irreverend possible. You can now support us on Substack! https://irreverendpod.substack.com/. Or support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https...
Join Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin to talk about the biggest stories in church and state. This time: The hit TV show Adolescence takes the UK by storm. But is this hard-hitting social realism or manipulative propaganda?The persecution of Christians in Syria and why we hear so little about it from the established church.Assisted Suicide Watch as the Bill is watered down to remove the high court judge safeguard.And Easter is cancelled in Eastleigh as ...
Rev with a difference Jamie Franklin tackles the Diocese of Norwich's anti-racism toolkit debacle and Giles Cohen's piece on giving up atheism for Lent. Then a special interview with home education activist Randall Hardy on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill and the concerns that it presents to home educators. All that and more as always. Enjoy! ORDER NOW JAMIE'S NEW BOOK THE GREAT RETURN! Please Support the Podcast! You make Irreverend possible. You can now support us on Substack...
Church of England revs with a difference Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the biggest stories in church and state. This time we talk about the Church of England comms team's strange decision to release a video about Climate Change on Shrove Tuesday after which we get our teeth into the major geopolitical events of the week: Starmer's visit to the White House; the apocalyptic clash between Trump, Zelenskyy and JD Vance; the US pausing of military aid to Ukraine; Zelenskyy c...
The three Church of England revs with a difference are back to talk about the biggest issues in church and state. This time: Trump's recent IVF orderProposed change to assisted suicide law extending eligibility to twelve months from sixDid anything interesting happen at General Synod? Our next pick for Archbishop of CanterburyAnd the mysterious withdrawal of the anonymous appointee to the See of DurhamAll that and much much more as ever. Please enjoy! Please Support the Podcast! You make...
Church of England rev with a difference Jamie Franklin pulls no punches as he analyses JD Vance's excoriating speech to a group of European leaders at a security summit in Munich. In a reversal of expectation, Vance claimed that the greatest threat to European security was not Russia but was the internal degradation of European society itself. He also took aim at the attack on free speech in the form of the monitoring of ostensible thought crime in Britain. Rev Jamie considers his assertions ...
Church of England revs with a difference Daniel French and Jamie French are joined by former Old Bailey judge and lay minister Charles Wide KC for a deep dive into the shady world of Project Spire: the Church Commissioners' project to give £100 million rising to £1 billion of Church of England money to communities and people ostensibly disadvantaged by the historic legacy of slavery. But has this project been carried out ethically and with proper legal and intellectual safeguards and ar...
Church of England revs with a difference Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the biggest stories in church and state. This time: JD Vance in "ordo amoris" Twitter spat with Rory Stewart.The Bishop of Liverpool resigns over sexual abuse allegations whilst controversy around Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell persists. £2.6 billion of Church Commissioner money earmarked for clergy stipend increase, but will it make any difference to anything?All that plus a special Questi...
Church of England vicars with a difference Jamie Franklin, Daniel French, and Thomas Pelham sit down to talk about the biggest weekly stories in church and state. This time we discuss calls for a renewed debate on the death penalty for the most serious crimes in the wake of the Axel Rudakubana sentencing. And we spoke about the freshest crisis in the Church of England in the form of allegations of sexual assaults made against the Bishop of Liverpool and even of a cover-up by the Archbishop of...
Church of England revs with a difference Tom Pelham, Daniel French, and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the big stories in church and state. This time involving many stories of bishops and church leaders who are committed to the progressive socialist ideologies that characterise left-wing politics. Stories involve: Woke Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budd attacks Trump at inauguration service."Faith leaders" including the Bishop of Norwich say back the Climate and Nature Bill (surprise, surpr...
Church of England revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Daniel French sit down to talk about the biggest stories in church and state this week: Senior Labour figures call for U-turn on refusal to hold national enquiry into rape gangs. The UK economy collapses while Rachel Reeves leaves for China. And Andrew Lawrence's ten step to fix the problem.Meta to end third-party fact-checking.Partial Church of England exodus to Bluesky.And the political fallout over the Californian wildfires. ...
Church of England vicar Jamie Franklin sits down with Heritage Party founder and leader David Kurten who speaks about why he is so concerned about the Labour Government's Schools and Wellbeing Bill which will fundamentally change the nature of the relationship between children and the state. Also discussed: - The Climate and Nature Bill which would amount to a land grab of 30% of the countryside in the name of environmentalism and climate activism. - Agenda 2030 and the globalists' plan to de...
Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the biggest storiesin church and state. This time: The UK rape gang scandal goes international as Elon Musk calls Keir Starmer an apologist for genocide and says that Jess Phillips should be in prison.The Children's Welfare and Schools Bill looks set to enforce a woke curriculum across all schools and take the right to home educate away from parents.Justin Welby steps down and Archbishop of York, ...
Revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the biggest issues of the day in church and state. This time:The Marc Geuhi rainbow armband controversy!Our thoughts on Only Fans actress Lily Philips having relations with a hundred men in a single day.And Church of England dismay at Liverpool Cathedral hosts drug-fuelled football club rave, further calls for the resignation of senior bishops over historic safeguarding failures, and the Bishop of Newcastle asking ...
Revs with a difference Tom Pelham, Daniel French, and Jamie Franklin sit down to review four years of Irreverend. This special livestream episode includes reflections upon the past four years of the podcast; your questions on Genesis 6 and fallen angels, the theology of Jordan Peterson and more; the BOVAER cow flatulence controversy; the Archbishop bows out in characteristically awful style; and our predictions for the where we'll be in a hundred episodes time. Please Support! You make Irreve...
Church of England revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Thomas Pelham sit down to respond to the biggest story of the week, the progression in Parliament of the Assisted Suicide Bill, leading the UK a significant step closer towards the legalisation of state-sponsored euthanasia. They are also joined by author and journalist Rod Dreher to talk about Rod's new book Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age. Rod talks to them about recovering a sense of the presence of ...
In this special episode, the Rev'd Dr Jamie Franklin responds to a recent lecture by the novelist and writer Paul Kingsnorth on Christian Civilisation. Franklin says that, although there are some important and powerful points in Kingnorth's lecture, he nevertheless disagrees with him on a number of significant points. For Paul Kingsnorth's "Against Christian Civilization": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3hMSZqatHI&t=4466s Pre-Order Jamie's Forthcoming Book The Great Return: https://www...
Nearly 1,000 clergy from the Church of England have signed an open letter opposing the legalisation of assisted suicide in the UK. Jamie Franklin sits down with its author and principal signatory Fr Richard Bastable to talk about the moral objections to assisted suicide, concerns about its acceptance, and hopeful alternative paths that our society might take. Find Fr Richard on X - https://x.com/rmbastable Please Support! Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a ...
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I found the link between the CofE, their governance and the rules of the charity commission on the subject of slavery reparations: Both interesting and disturbing. it doesn't surprise me that people are cancelling legacies formerly destined to the Church.
Dear Jamie and Daniel. Please stop validating their satanic language. It is a ritually mutilated wom@n. Using their terms validates their language.
Enjoyed Jimmy's appearance on Delingpod very much, which led me to this. Great podcast!