Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs (J.A. Franklin, T.J. Pelham, Daniel French)
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| 04 Feb 2022 | Rogan Tosh - Vaccine Mandates, Canadian Truckers, Joe Ro "Misinformation", Bible on Trial in Finland and More! | 01:36:39 | |
Church of England Revs Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events. This week: NHS vaccine mandate U-turn, Canadian trucker rebels, an attempt to cancel some bloke called Joe Rogan, the Bible on trial in a Finnish court and a question on how Christians are meant to engage with a corrupt and immoral political system. | |||
| 11 Feb 2022 | "People need depth..." - Lord Frost on Covid, Net-Zero, Brexit, Identity Politics, Free Speech and More! | 02:08:20 | |
Church of England vicars Daniel French, Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin are joined by Lord Frost. Until recently David Frost has been at the heart of the UK Government and has been deeply involved in seminal moments in British history including the Brexit negotiations and the Covid crisis. A deeply principled man, he quit the government over his opposition to further Covid restrictions and has subsequently said publicly that he believes that lockdowns are a serious policy error. In this special interview, he addresses in-depth the Covid crisis and the real reasons for the government's response to it, the use of behavioural psychology, the relationship of the government to the UK media, Brexit, the green agenda, free speech and the online harms bill. We also speak about the Church of England and its failure to take the opportunity to offer hope in the midst of fear. Lord Frost ends this discussion with an exhortation to the Church to remember its true identity and to stop aping secular politicians. | |||
| 18 Feb 2022 | Two Weeks to Flatten the Truckers - Spiritual Experience, Trudeau Goes Nuclear, Archbishop Denies Church Closure/Derides Bake Off, CofE Twitter Implodes on Conversion Therapy | 01:37:42 | |
Church of England Revs Daniel French, Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events. This week: a question on the experience of God, in the news Trudeau invokes emergency power to confiscate money from rogue truckers, the Archbishop of Canterbury says that he is not solely responsible for the closure of churches in March 2020 and that he does not like the competitive nature of the Great British Bake Off. We also review the ongoing controversy around a letter decrying the British government's banning of conversion therapy with 2,500 signatories drawn from sectors of the church in this country. It's fair to say that this has provoked quite a reaction on Twitter, not sure about the rest of the world. | |||
| 25 Feb 2022 | Covid Mission-Creep - Laura Dodsworth on Canadian Authoritarianism, Central Bank Digital Currencies, Mass Formation, Conscientious Objection and More | 01:40:25 | |
Church of England vicars Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events being joined by special guest Laura Dodsworth. | |||
| 04 Mar 2022 | A Christian Response to Russia-Ukraine | 01:33:15 | |
Church of England vicars Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events, this week focussing mainly on issues arising from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It is important to note that, although we discuss these events abstractly, we pray for peace and for God's comfort for all of those who are suffering. | |||
| 09 Mar 2022 | Question the Rev: Common pitfalls for recent converts and how to avoid them | 00:10:15 | |
In this episode of Question the Rev, Church of England vicars Tom, Jamie and Daniel answer a question about common pitfalls for new converts to Christianity. What are they and how can they be avoided? | |||
| 11 Mar 2022 | Into the War Room - Plus the end of SAGE and Sturgeon Apologises to Witches | 01:25:28 | |
Church of England vicars Thomas Pelham, Daniel French and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events, this week again talking quite a bit about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Also featuring commentary on the disbanding of the disastrous SAGE committee and Nicola Sturgeon posthumous apology to witches burned at the stage in Early Modernity. | |||
| 16 Mar 2022 | Question the Rev: Does forgiving mean forgetting too? | 00:07:00 | |
Rev'd Jamie Franklin says that we must forget in the sense that we mustn't have bitterness or anger towards those who have hurt us, but that, in many cases, it is still wise to remember what has been done so that we can make good decisions in the future. He also says that our ultimate unity in the Church is based not on whether we agree entirely about the past but on Jesus Christ and the Gospel. | |||
| 18 Mar 2022 | Hancock Revisited | 00:40:06 | |
In this solo episode, Church of England Rev Jamie Franklin responds to Matt Hancock's recent interview on Diary of a CEO. Beginning with a meditation on Ephesians 5, he argues that the Christian conception of love is superior to the superficial understanding portrayed by Hancock in his interview. | |||
| 23 Mar 2022 | Question the Rev - Do you ever have doubts? and Christian History Book Recommendations | 00:19:27 | |
In this episode of Question the Rev, Rev'd Jamie says that he doesn't doubt the basic truth of Christianity but that sometimes he doubts whether he is making sense of it personally. He also gives some pastoral advice on how to approach doubts. | |||
| 25 Mar 2022 | Apocalyptic Virtue-Signalling | 01:25:54 | |
From Saturday March 26th, book in to our first ever official Irreverend conference! | |||
| 30 Mar 2022 | Question the Rev - Do you have to be a Christian to be Accepted by God? | 00:10:57 | |
In this episode of Question the Rev, Church of England vicars Daniel French and Jamie Franklin address the question of whether or not God accepts people who are not Christians. | |||
| 31 Mar 2022 | Church Under Fire? - Discussion with Benjamin John, Bernard Randall and Revs Tom and Jamie | 01:35:59 | |
Recorded in March 2022 at The Colchester Mission, Revs Tom and Jamie were involved in a wide-ranging conversation with Christian Concern's Benjamin John and the Rev'd Dr Bernard Randall, including the following: the right relationship between the law of God and the law of the country, woke intolerance and the persecution of Rev'd Bernard for stating that pupils should be able to make up their own minds about human sexuality, abortion and associated issues and the response of the Church to the increasing marginalisation of Christian values and the emergence of progressive values as a new religion. | |||
| 01 Apr 2022 | Rock Smacked; Smith Backed; Women and Livingstone Jacked | 01:29:27 | |
From Saturday April, snap up one of the balcony seats still available for our first ever official Irreverend conference! | |||
| 06 Apr 2022 | Question the Rev - How do you choose a denomination? | 00:11:39 | |
In this episode of Question the Rev, Church of England vicars Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin attempt to answer the question of how people outside of the Church are meant to begin choosing a denomination. | |||
| 07 Apr 2022 | Podcast Extra - The Ideological Challenge of Science | 00:33:43 | |
In this special episode, Church of England vicar Jamie Franklin reproduces a talk given recently at an event in Cambridge on "The Ideological Challenge of Science". | |||
| 08 Apr 2022 | A Sacred Journey | 01:23:39 | |
Snap up one of the few remaining balcony seats still available for our first ever official Irreverend conference! | |||
| 08 Apr 2022 | Special Update on Video Content | 00:07:02 | |
Dear friends. We are no longer posting our main video content on YouTube for reasons discussed in this video. | |||
| 13 Apr 2022 | Question the Rev - What do you think of meditation? | 00:13:29 | |
In this episode of Question the Rev, Church of England vicars Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin address the question of a Christian approach to meditation. | |||
| 15 Apr 2022 | Ecstatic Reflections | 01:23:39 | |
Snap up one of the few remaining balcony seats still available for our first ever official Irreverend conference! | |||
| 22 Apr 2022 | Classic Replay - "We are exiles in this world" w/ Rod Dreher | 02:00:44 | |
We're on a post-Easter holiday this week, so journey back in time with us to November last year when we were just beginning our walk through the book of Revelation, Durham Cathedral was closing its doors to the infectious hordes of unvaccinated worshippers and Australia and Austria were attempting to outdo one another in competitive vaccine tyranny. In the second half of the episode, we were privileged to be joined by Rod Dreher who spoke to us about western's cultures significant drift away from Christianity and the implications for soft totalitarian political takeover and technocratic digital control. The answer to all of this? Orthodox Christian of course. Enjoy! | |||
| 23 Apr 2022 | "The Gospel is Divisive" - Special Interview with Calvin Robinson | 00:42:41 | |
Until recently journalist and cultural commentator Calvin Robinson was training to be a priest in the Church of England. Although initially the Church of England hierarchy had agreed that Calvin would pursue ordained ministry alongside his public engagement, he was unceremoniously dropped from the training process after two years and told he would not be being ordained. He was told that his opinions were divisive and controversial. Calvin, however, believes that the decision to drop him is reflective of the monochromatic wokeness and social progressivism of the Church of England hierarchy and that he has been cancelled for being an orthodox Christian with politically conservative views. In this special episode, Reverend Daniel French gives Calvin the opportunity to tell the story. | |||
| 29 Apr 2022 | The Vicar Will Kill You Now | 01:17:18 | |
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| 06 May 2022 | Experts, Utopia, Globalism and the Kingdom of God - Conversation with Joe Boot | 01:36:44 | |
For this week's episode, Church of England vicar Jamie Franklin was joined by The Rev'd Dr Joseph Boot to talk about issues arising from his new book Ruler of Kings: Towards a Christian Vision of Government . We talked about the cult of the expert, our propensity in the wake of the rejection of a Christian culture to deify the state and to thereby attempt to create a globalist utopian on the earth, and a Christian view of government which includes institutions possessing their own integrity and the right to exist independently of the state. We also spoke about the role of the law of God in society and how we might conceive of a Christian culture that eschews the putative neutrality of the secular realm. | |||
| 20 May 2022 | Strategic Engagement in the Public Square with Ryan Christopher | 01:09:07 | |
CofE vicar Jamie Franklin sits down with director of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) UK, Ryan Christopher, to talk about the global assault on liberty and what Christians and all people of good will can do to push back against it. Ryan goes into detail about the implications on the Online Safety Bill and the Conversion Therapy Bill and why it is essential that as many Christians as possible becomes politically engaged as quickly as possible. | |||
| 13 May 2022 | The Church's Response to Roe v. Wade, The WHO Global Pandemic Treaty, Bill Gates New Tome and More! | 01:30:43 | |
In this episode of Irreverend, Church of England vicars Daniel French and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events, this week taking our Scriptural reflection from 2 Corinthians 5:21: Christ's righteousness given to those who trust in him in exchange for our sinfulness. In current events: we look at different responses to the leaked draft implying that Roe v. Wade will be overturned and discuss the various criticisms that have been levelled at pro-life people and the Christian Church; the Global Pandemic Treaty which has been signed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and appears to hand a huge amount of sovereign power to the World Health Organisation, whose biggest funder is none other than Bill Gates. Speaking of Gates, he has a new book out in which he recommends that if there is a new pandemic we should do more of the same but only faster and harder. We attempt to give a spiritual perspective on this and more on this week's Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! | |||
| 21 May 2022 | Conjecture and Criticism with Nick Hudson | 01:00:32 | |
Nick Hudson is the chairman of PANDA (Pandemic Data and Analytics) (https://www.pandata.org), a group of multidisciplinary professionals who perceived the global reaction to Covid, and lockdown in particular, as overwrought and damaging to the point of causing a great tear in the fabric of society. PANDA stands for open debate and real science and challenges every aspect of the globalist "new normal" and its assault on individual dignity and liberty. | |||
| 22 May 2022 | The Schools Bill Must Die | 00:52:04 | |
In this special episode, Rev'd Jamie Franklin is joined by Wendy Charles-Warner, chair of Education Otherwise, and home educator and freedom fighter Amie Miles to talk about The Schools Bill. The Schools Bill was recently announced in The Queen's Speech and is a horrendously drafted piece of legislation that would destroy the basis for home education in this country. It is an unnecessary assault on the capacity of parents to make decisions for their own families and could in time lead to even more drastic intrusion by the state into parents' relationships with their children. It constitutes yet another area in which the state is arrogating to itself the responsibility and authority to interfere in the private lives of British citizens. | |||
| 27 May 2022 | The KKK at Prayer | 01:37:52 | |
In this episode of Irreverend, Church of England vicars Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events, this week taking our Scriptural reflection from 1 Timothy 2:-14: Paul's teaching that we should pray that governments allow us to live godly lives. In current events: we look at the new Schools Bill which threatens to change the relationship of the family to the state and destroy the basis for home education, a new study showing the devastating effect of lockdowns on toddlers, monkeypox and what that's all about, what football does when a black Muslim won't wear a rainbow flag on his shirt, Ricky Gervais' controversial comments about transgender people, Calvin Robinson's shunning by the CofE who he failed to recognise as the KKK at prayer, and much more! We attempt to give a spiritual perspective on all of this on this week's Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! | |||
| 03 Jun 2022 | Gender Outlaw | 01:17:44 | |
Church of England vicars Daniel and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events, this week taking our Scriptural reflection from 2 Corinthians 11:12-15: the apostle Paul's observation that Satan masquerades as an angel of light and what that can tell us about geopolitical events and the godless humanitarian philosophy that underlies some of them. To that end, we speak about the World Economic Forum gathering in Davos and the technocratic elite's plan for a global government that will hold national governments to account. We discuss the striking parallels between the thought and philosophy of Davos and that of the Soviet communist regime. We also touch briefly on the multiple parties that were happening in Number 10 Downing Street and what they reveal to us about the beliefs of those who implement the lockdown laws. Also in Whitehall, things are looking very woke as the official line is that staff must recognise more than 100 genders and join gender non-conforming book clubs. We receive an email from a lefty listener and exchange some tedious observations about the weather. All in a day's work on Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! | |||
| 10 Jun 2022 | Artificial Wombs and Climate Missionaries | 01:41:42 | |
Church of England vicars Daniel French and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events, this week taking our Scriptural reflection from Genesis 1:28-30: man and woman created by God after his own image. In this bumper edition, we range through renewables, energy bills and green "technology", the political philosophy of the England Football team, Star Wars and sci-fi going woke, the jubilee, no confidence in Boris and Nadine Dorris' savage attack on Jeremy Hunt, transhumanism and the metaverse, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Prince Andrew, the terrible massacre of Christians in Nigeria and the question of whether or not climate activists are missionaries (they're not). We hope you enjoy this episode of Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs and, if you do, please don't forget to subscribe and share! | |||
| 17 Jun 2022 | Hungary Four - England Kneel | 01:30:32 | |
Rev Tom Pelham is back joining regular host Rev Jamie Franklin. In an episode packed full of spiritually enlightened cultural wisdom, we ask why the English football team has become so terrible (maybe because they have stopped caring about football and now imagine that the sport is a vehicle for the transmission of their "values"?) and why Hollywood seems so unilaterally incapable of making entertaining films (with the notable exception of Tom Cruise's latest blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick). We talk Matt Walsh's recent documentary What is a Woman? and discuss recent church news including: Justin Welby and various bishops slam the government's plans to send illegal immigrants abroad to seek a better life in Rwanda (but, whoops, they put their public letter on an online newspaper that has a paywall so nobody can read it!) and Pope Francis saying some surprisingly sensible things about Ukraine. In other news, the technocrats want to ban smoking for everybody except octogenarians and Cineworld finds itself caught in the middle of an internecine battle for supremacy between Sunni and Shia Muslims. | |||
| 24 Jun 2022 | Febrile Times | 01:29:09 | |
Revs Jamie Franklin and Thomas Pelham are back discussing news and current events from a Christian perspective. This week: Gary Lineker: ethnic minority or pasty-faced white man? You decide. Also in the news, Jordan Peterson savages the sacrifice of children on the altar of a brutal far-left ideology (ouch!), academic Tim Hayward is investigated by the British government for tweeting that there are two sides to the story of the Ukraine-Russia war and the Federal Drug Administration approves vaccines for six month old babies. We also answer a question about giving to your parish church. All that and much, much more including cultural commentary, films, television and Tom Pelham's in-depth review of his trip to an industrial museum in this week's episode of Irreverend! | |||
| 01 Jul 2022 | Sex Strike | 01:47:15 | |
The three revs are back in conversation. In this week's episode Thomas Pelham, Daniel French and Jamie Franklin discuss the latest and most salient news items from a Christian perspective. Beginning with a reflection on Romans 1, we move on to ask whether the Prime Minister was right to say that only women can have penises, review the strange DIY Covid video sick-note made by a clearly not too unwell Jeremy Vine and renewed calls to plunge the country back into a series of draconian coronavirus "measures", talk about the striking down of Roe v. Wade in the US and the resultant calls by feminists in New York State for a sex strike to teach men a lesson, demands by high-ranking officials in the British Army for full-scale war with Russia and the innovative liturgical decision by the Diocese of Oxford to encourage new converts to pledge to safeguard the integrity of creation upon the occasion of their baptisms. We also read an email from the mother of a daughter struggling with transgender issues. All of that and much much more in this week's episode! | |||
| 08 Jul 2022 | Fantasy, Folly and Lies | 01:19:15 | |
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| 15 Jul 2022 | Climate Fascism and Other Fantastic Tales of Virtue | 01:34:31 | |
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| 22 Jul 2022 | Thermocalypse Now? | 01:09:42 | |
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| 29 Jul 2022 | Off-Grid Faith | 01:39:28 | |
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| 05 Aug 2022 | Totalitarian Leisure Activities | 01:00:38 | |
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| 12 Aug 2022 | Dear Archbish... | 01:27:47 | |
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| 19 Aug 2022 | Wisdom Deficit | 01:21:43 | |
CofE Revs Tom and Jamie sit down to talk about the salient affairs from the perspective of Christian faith: shock as Graham Souness calls football "a man's game", the looming energy crisis and increasing cost of food and why our elites have failed to show wisdom in preparing for such an eventuality, the stabbing of Salman Rushdie and what this has to do with freedom of speech, a different take on the case of Archie Battersbee, whether either of us has ever seen an angel and much much more! | |||
| 26 Aug 2022 | We know what you're thinking | 01:13:03 | |
Church of England revs Jamie and Tom are back to talk about Fauci retiring, Matt Hancock advocating for voluntary deaths to decrease pressure on the NHS, a ban on prayer in Glasgow (even if it's just in your mind!), lots of scientists saying there is no climate emergency, your questions answered in Question the Rev and much much more! | |||
| 02 Sep 2022 | The Tide is Turning | 01:21:53 | |
Church of England revs Tom and Jamie return to talk about the big stories of the week: top amongst them Rishi Sunak criticises the culture of fear and secrecy created by the government in their quest to implement the Covid lockdowns, Novak Djokovic is again banned from a Grand Slam and again responds extremely graciously, the government website says contradictory things about whether pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers should have the Covid vaccine, we read a listener email on the significant downsides of delaying having children until economic security is obtained, a Question the Rev on withholding payment of utility bills and much much more! | |||
| 09 Sep 2022 | Thou shalt not dissent | 01:43:23 | |
PLEASE NOTE - This episode was recorded before the sad death of Queen Elizabeth II. Our condolences are with Her Majesty's family and all who mourn. We will certainly discuss our great monarch's passing on next week's show. May her soul rest in peace with God after her long years of devoted service. | |||
| 16 Sep 2022 | Saint Elizabeth the Confessor | 01:34:59 | |
Church of England vicars Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the death of Queen Elizabeth II and her successor Charles III. We talk from a personal and spiritual perspective about the abiding legacy of the Queen, including her strong personal faith in Christ, and our hopes for Charles' reign. Along the way we address questions around the purpose of monarchy, the decline of society during the reign of Elizabeth II, questionable royal political entanglements and the fraught question of what Elizabeth's posthumous name should be. We've already made out decision. | |||
| 23 Sep 2022 | An Opportunity for Spiritual Renewal? | 01:15:14 | |
Church of England revs Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the most significant issues in the culture today. We take a brief foray into the strange world of Canadian education in which a man came to school dressed in enormous comedy breasts and was defended on the grounds of diversity and inclusion, after which we return home to merry England and discuss the spiritual and cultural significance of Elizabeth II's funeral. Is this an opportunity for spiritual renewal within our land or was it "a bit much", as Tom appears to think? In addition, we answer your questions in Question the Rev and that's all for this week's Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! | |||
| 30 Sep 2022 | "Replant the traditions..." w/ Dr Yoram Hazony | 01:47:59 | |
Church of England vicars Jamie Franklin and Daniel French sat down to chat about the big stories in the news: the Queen's funeral (again), "far-right" evil fascists taking power in Italy, building Benedict Option style communities for the transmission of the faith and what to do when your deanery synod is populated by eco-loons. | |||
| 07 Oct 2022 | A Sexular Age | 01:31:45 | |
Church of England vicars Daniel French, Jamie Franklin and Thomas Pelham return to talk about cancel culture as Australian Christian Andrew Thorburn has to resign as CEO of Essendon football club because of his church’s “unacceptable” views, and as British Catholic Caroline Farrow is arrested in front of her children whilst making Sunday lunch for writing offensive tweets. We also talk a little bit about the mini-budget from an economic and moral perspective and answer your questions in the Question the Rev, including one on whether or not the Bible says the earth is flat. That and much much more in this week's edition of Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! | |||
| 14 Oct 2022 | Winter Blackouts, Nuclear War, Covid Loneliness and More | 01:08:57 | |
Church of England Rev Jamie Franklin engages the huge issues of the day from the perspective of the Christian faith: Was the sexual revolution a good thing? How should we respond to the shaking of Western civilisation as nuclear war and power outages threaten our well-being? What should we say to people who are still terrified of Covid? All these questioned answers (probably not comprehensively), your Question the Revs tackled and much much more in this week's Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! | |||
| 19 Oct 2022 | Rediscovering Wonder - How and Why the Church Must Re-enchant Itself | 00:39:13 | |
In this special episode, the Rev'd Dr Jamie Franklin presents a talk on the subject of disenchantment. How did the world lose its sense of transcendent wonder during the Reformation and Early Modern period? What is it like to live in a "flat" secular age? And what can Christianity and the Church offer to the disenchanted world? | |||
| 21 Oct 2022 | Frisking for Soup | 01:34:07 | |
Join Church of England vicars Daniel French, Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin as we discuss the big question of the day. Should the governments of the West not be trying to prevent nuclear war? As the Prime Minister fires her closest ally and hires a CCP-inspired man with a mad stare, what are to we make of the absolute mess that the government has got itself into? In Twits on Twitter, we analyse a video of two young thinkers whose creative use of tomato soup has caused one heck of a stir. And in Question the Rev, we touch on everything from the Rapture to Cathedrals for entry. All that and much much more in this week's episode of Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! | |||
| 26 Oct 2022 | Wednesday Dialogue - Hello, Unknown with Jonathan Wright | 01:25:22 | |
In these Wednesday Dialogues, host of Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs Jamie Franklin speaks with special guests on different topics and from different perspectives. This week, Jonathan Wright, lawyer and writer from Vancouver, Canada. Jonathan is the creator of the excellent new podcast "Hello, Unknown". | |||
| 28 Oct 2022 | The Markets Elect Our New Prime Minister | 01:17:36 | |
Church of England Revs Tom and Jamie are back this week to talk about Halloween, a Christian perspective on wealth and riches, Twits on Twitter featuring pro-abortion protestors closing down an SPUC seminar on Edinburgh University campus, the big story of the week as we have a new Prime Minister, Question the Rev on the greatest challenges of the Christian life and finding time for prayer, and what it’s like to work as a store manager in ASDA during Covid-tide. This and much much more as always! | |||
| 04 Nov 2022 | "Of course I was right!" - Peter Hitchens on Covid, Ukraine, Climate, Racism, the Church of England and much more! | 01:56:40 | |
For our 100th episode, Church of England vicars Daniel, Tom and Jamie are joined by journalist and author Peter Hitchens. Amongst others things, we looked at Peter's response to and subsequent reflections upon the Covid-19 crisis, Putin and Ukraine, the gospel of climate change, the religious sensibilities of identity politics, advice for bishops in the CofE, Russell Brand and the decriminalisation of drugs, Christopher Hitchens and the legacy of New Atheism, Rishi Sunak and the end of the Conservative party, the WEF, globalism and central bank digital currencies, the seemingly bleak future of Great Britain, and a few others things to boot! | |||
| 11 Nov 2022 | Eco-Anxiety: A How-To Guide | 01:33:38 | |
Church of England vicars Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the week's important stories: Rishi goes to COP27 after massive u-turn and declares billions in support of the cause, eco-anxiety out of control amongst the youth of today - what can be done?, some bishops of the CofE have come out in favour of gay marriage - what does this mean for the future of the church?, and various questions posed by you, dear listener, in this week's multifarious Question the Rev. All this and much, much more in this week's offering of Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! | |||
| 18 Nov 2022 | Clown Church | 01:40:22 | |
Church of England vicars Daniel French, Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to tackle the most pertinent stories. This week: COP27 crisis talk continues as the Archbishop of Canterbury says that the world is (still) close to the point of no return whilst the ex-archbish, Rowan Williams, leads a delegation of "faith" leaders up a hill proclaiming ten new commandments for climate repentance. Meanwhile, the Diocese of Ely have asked academics at the University of Cambridge to tell them how to make money out of their church buildings and the University have responded by telling them to turn them into literal circuses. Also, in wider news, it turns out that the scientific study into a church choir Covid-19 "super spreader" event that was used not only to ban singing in church but to restrict indoor gatherings more generally was - you guessed it - based on flimsy evidence. Colour us shocked to the core in this week's offering of Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! | |||
| 25 Nov 2022 | Armbands at Dawn | 01:16:11 | |
Church of England vicars Daniel French, Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the most important issues in church and society. This week we begin with some reflection upon the two "beasts" of Revelation 13 and how the imagery of persecution, faith and endurance is relevant to Christians in the twenty-first century, especially pertaining to persecuted Christians in nations such as Qatar, Iran, Tunisia and Morocco who are represented at this year's football World Cup. From the serious to the silly, we discuss whether the Church of England was correct to issue guidance saying that churches should not schedule their carol services for the same time as the World Cup final and we take in the somewhat questionable claim that elite western footballers have been silenced because they were threatened with yellow cards if they wore rainbow armbands out on the field. (All will be explained.) What does the moral and philosophical incoherence on display by footballers, journalists and western institutions reveal to us about ourselves and how can the Christian faith speak to this confusion? In Twits on Twitter, it can be no other than FIFA president Gianni Infantino's bizarre soliloquy, in which, in order to justify the questionable decision to stage the World Cup in Qatar, he claims that he "feels" like he is various things such as a Qatari, a gay person, disabled and a migrant worker. We didn't understand either. | |||
| 30 Nov 2022 | Why Machines Will Never Rule the World - With Dr Jobst Landgrebe and Professor Barry Smith | 01:19:48 | |
Church of England vicar Jamie Franklin sits down with eminent thinkers Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith to discuss the pair's recent book 'Why Machines Will Never Rule the World'. Contrary to the bombastic predictions of Elon Musk and Klaus Shwab, there will never come a day when human beings create an artificial intelligence that is equal or superior to themselves. We can all relax on that front because such an endeavour is a mathematical impossibility. In this conversation, we explore Landgrebe and Smith's argument in detail whilst touching on the true nature of human intelligence, free will, the extent to which emotion has a physical basis, demonic possession, mankind's need for religion even in a secular context and the definition and implication of complex systems for viruses and climate change. Strap yourselves in because this one goes deep. | |||
| 02 Dec 2022 | Trans-substantiation | 01:26:35 | |
Church of England vicars Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the biggest and most relevant stories of the week: the census says Christians are now in a minority in this country, the Balencia child porn scandal, MPs including Jacob Rees-Mogg speaking out against enshrining abortion rights in UK law, a Cambridge don saying perhaps Jesus was trans, the Crown Prosecution Service saying the Bible is no longer relevant and a word on the lockdown protests in China. It's all here and more in this week's episode of Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! | |||
| 09 Dec 2022 | Cold Facts and Empty Churches | 01:39:41 | |
Church of Englands revs Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down to discuss the key cultural theological issues. This week: the MET office usefully informs us to wear jumpers when we go outside because it is cold, Matt Hancocks quits the Commons to "communicate better with the public", the Church of England mission statistics show a shocking lack of bouncebackability as attendance numbers for 2021 show a decline of 30% (or about 250,00 people) from pre-Covid levels and we review the disturbing story coming out of Oxfordshire that residents are going to be divided up into "zones" and banned from using their cars to travel between zones for most of the year. Question the Rev this week sees some interesting queries about evolution and Christianity and whether there will be suffering and/or free will in heaven. | |||
| 17 Dec 2022 | Stop the Vaccine Roll-Out - With Andrew Bridgen MP | 00:35:57 | |
MP Andrew Bridgen called a debate in the House of Commons this week, stating that he believes that the Covid vaccines are causing significant damage to many people who are taking them. In his view, the risks of damage from the vaccine outweigh significantly any good they might be doing. In this special interview, The Rev'd Dr Jamie Franklin speaks with Andrew about what brought him to this viewpoint, the salient points of his argument and the evidence in its favour, the lack of interest from the corporate media, and the ethics of vaccinating children including babies as young as six-months old (which has now been approved by the UK's MHRA). This and many more important points are covered in this important conversation concerning the health and wellbeing of millions of people. | |||
| 23 Dec 2022 | God Rest Ye Merry Thought Police | 01:26:32 | |
Book in now to our February live event with Rod Dreher: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irreverend-live-with-rod-dreher-tickets-483820599437 | |||
| 28 Dec 2022 | Happy New Year! - and a couple of notices | 00:06:35 | |
Friends, this podcast comes with all our best wishes to all our listeners for the coming year. | |||
| 01 Jan 2023 | Responding to King Charles III's Christmas Speech 2022 | 00:26:33 | |
CofE Rev Jamie Franklin gives his instant reaction to King Charles III's Christmas Speech 2022. Five-star masterclass or one-star dud? | |||
| 02 Jan 2023 | Responding to Joe Biden's Christmas Speech 2022 | 00:34:53 | |
CofE Rev Jamie Franklin gives his instant reaction to King Charles III's Christmas Speech 2022. Inspiring oratory or anodyne cliché? | |||
| 03 Jan 2023 | Responding to Justin Trudeau's Christmas Speech 2022 | 00:12:43 | |
CofE Rev Jamie Franklin gives his instant reaction to Canadian politician Justin Trudeau's 2022 Christmas speech. How did he do? | |||
| 04 Jan 2023 | Responding to Ameca the Robot's Christmas Speech 2022 | 00:16:51 | |
Church of England Rev Jamie Franklin gives his instant reaction to Ameca the Robot's Christmas Speech for Channel 4. Did the robot display more humanity than the politicians? Let's see. | |||
| 05 Jan 2023 | Responding to Keir Starmer's Christmas Speech 2022 | 00:19:37 | |
Church of England Rev Jamie Franklin responds to Sir Keir Starmer's Christmas Speech 2022. | |||
| 06 Jan 2023 | Angels of Darkness and Light | 01:27:37 | |
Church of England vicars Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the week's big stories including: Bingo the transgender vicar, government ministers talk about reintroducing covid restrictions and Rishi's optimistic New Year speech. That and much much more in this week's episode of Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! | |||
| 13 Jan 2023 | Victimhood and Grievances | 01:21:28 | |
Church of England vicars Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to discuss the big stories of the week in both Church and State. This week: the Archbishop of Canterbury doubles down on the Church of England transgender affirming guidance to primary schools and announces that the Church will funnel £100 million pounds into reparation funds for historic links to slavery: righteous dealing or woke virtue-signalling at a time of grave financial need for front line churches and clergy? Prince Harry is denouncing the family and institutions from whence he came. What currents in modern thought and behaviour does he embody and is he is a paragon of wounded virtue or simply an ungrateful opportunist who is willing to sell his own family out for money? | |||
| 20 Jan 2023 | A Turn to the Dark Lord | 01:21:28 | |
Church of England reverends Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin get together to discuss the big stories of the week. | |||
| 27 Jan 2023 | Coronating Wokery | 01:39:07 | |
Church of England vicars Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down to give an alternative reading of the week's big stories. | |||
| 01 Feb 2023 | Protestant Social Teaching and Covid Lockdowns with Rhys Laverty | 00:56:45 | |
Church of England rev Jamie Franklin was joined by Rhys Laverty of The Davenant Institute speaking about the new book Protestant Social Teaching: An Introduction. This book brings social teaching in the Reformed tradition to bear upon critical issues of the modern day. We spoke about why such a project is necessary and who it might help. And we used the example of principled Christian rebellion, particularly in the context of the Covid shutdowns, as an illustration of applied Protestant social teaching. | |||
| 03 Feb 2023 | Toksvig the Theologian | 01:20:32 | |
Church of Englands revs Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to cover this week's biggest talking point. In Fatigued, Amused, Freaked Out: bizarre and hilarious comms at Canterbury Cathedral, Bridgen sues Hancock as major trash-talk is exchanged and paraphilia bingo in Sam Smith's perverse new music video. | |||
| 10 Feb 2023 | Misgendering God | 01:22:39 | |
Church of Englands revs but not as you know them with Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin. This week: | |||
| 15 Feb 2023 | Buddha, Christ and Covid with Michael Hooey | 01:04:25 | |
Michael Hooey is a former Buddhist who reconverted to Christianity during the Covid-19 crisis. This was caused at least in part because of his disillusionment with the Buddhist community's flaccid capitulation to the madness that overtook society. | |||
| 17 Feb 2023 | Gender Wars in Church and State | 01:44:13 | |
Church of England revs but not as you know them Thomas Pelham, Jamie Franklin and Daniel French sit down to talk about the big news this week: | |||
| 24 Feb 2023 | Roald Dahl and the Joyless Whitewashing | 02:00:34 | |
Church of England vicars Jamie Franklin and Daniel sit down to review the big talking points of the week in a bumper episode. This time: | |||
| 03 Mar 2023 | Thunberg Against The Wind | 01:28:23 | |
Church of England vicars with a difference as Tom Pelham, Jamie Franklin and Daniel French get together to discuss all the big stories: | |||
| 10 Mar 2023 | Liars, Gaslighters and Manipulators | 01:32:36 | |
Church of England revs but not as you know them Jamie Franklin and Thomas Pelham crack into the big stories of the week: Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages reveal that they weren't following "the science" after all but were lying and self-aggrandising all along (we did mention something about something about this some time ago), the "Fat Sex Therapist" suggests that sexual predators such as Bill Cosby could be served by a "sex positive" attitude to consensual date rape, a drag night in St James' Piccadilly, and, in our email of the week, a riposte to the pro-Russian email from last week's episode, arguing against Russia and in favour of Ukraine's cause in the ongoing war. That and much much more as always in this week's episode! | |||
| 17 Mar 2023 | Of Nazis and Narnians | 01:13:42 | |
Controversy this week as terrorist watchdog puts CS Lewis children's classic on its far right white nationalist blacklist. Also on the blacklist is Suella Braverman, whom popular BBC sports presenter and covert socialist Gary Lineker compared to the Nazis. North of the border, the ostensibly Muslim candidate for leadership in the SNP Humza Yousaf wants to make it legal to terminate babies up until the point of birth. | |||
| 22 Mar 2023 | The Book of Vision with Robin Monotti Graziadei | 01:09:50 | |
For this special episode the Rev'd Dr Jamie Franklin was joined by Robin Monotti Graziadei, the producer of the new film 'The Book of Vision' starring Charles Dance and Lotte Verbeek, directed by Carlo Hinterman and executively produced by Terrence Malick. | |||
| 24 Mar 2023 | Inclusive Language for Vicars | 01:33:06 | |
Church of England revs Jamie Franklin and Daniel French get together to put things to rights, talking all the big themes of the week. This time: | |||
| 31 Mar 2023 | Endgame for Transgenderism? | 01:31:43 | |
Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin get together to talk about a week of big stories. | |||
| 07 Apr 2023 | The Sexual Revolution Becomes Violent | 01:39:27 | |
Church of England revs Jamie Franklin and Daniel French take on the big talking points of the day. | |||
| 14 Apr 2023 | Feminism Against Progress with Mary Harrington | 01:17:32 | |
Church of England rev Jamie Franklin sits down with author and public intellectual Mary Harrington to talk about Mary's new book Feminism Against Progress. Describing herself as a "reactionary feminist" Mary argues that the the direction feminism has taken in more recent years has benefitted nobody except a small group of elite women and that we need to recover the concept of interdependence between men and women. She is a subtle yet outspoken critic of post-humanist thought and the application of the concept of freedom to the human body both in terms of the denial of sex differences and in the reconstruction of the human body along the lines suggested by transgender ideologues. | |||
| 21 Apr 2023 | Orange Insanity | 01:37:23 | |
Church of England revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Daniel French get together to talk about the big and often disturbing stories of the day from a spiritual perspective. This week: | |||
| 28 Apr 2023 | Revenge of the Establishment | 01:33:03 | |
Church of England vicars Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin get together to discuss this week's topic stories and talking points: | |||
| 05 May 2023 | Is the Countryside Racist? | 01:36:52 | |
Church of England vicars Jamie Franklin, Thomas Pelham and Daniel French get together to talk about the big stories in culture and the church: | |||
| 12 May 2023 | Coronation Malarkey | 01:42:09 | |
Church of England revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Daniel French sit down to talk about the week's top stories. This time: | |||
| 19 May 2023 | Nick Dixon - Comedy, Christianity and the Culture War | 02:17:03 | |
In this epic conversation, Rev Jamie Franklin sits down with broadcaster and comedy legend Nick Dixon. Treating a range of subjects from comedy, the culture war, Christianity, the roles of men and women in society and the family, the significance of dreams and psychotherapy, Nick's best impressions including Peter Hitchens and Jordan Peterson, and so much more, the pair leave no stone unturned. | |||
| 26 May 2023 | Natcon, Satanism and the BBC | 01:48:02 | |
Church of England vicars with a difference, Jamie Franklin and Daniel French, are back giving a spiritual perspective on the events of our age. | |||
| 02 Jun 2023 | Woke Health Oppressors | 01:44:47 | |
Church of England vicars with a difference, Jamie Franklin and Daniel French, are back giving a spiritual perspective on the events of our age. This time: | |||
| 06 Jun 2023 | Repentance Required | 01:16:20 | |
Church of England vicars with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to give a spiritual perspective on the big events of the day. This week, after an absence on the show, Tom gives his own inimitable take on the coronation of King Charles III, we review a Daily Telegraph headline article that tells us that the lockdowns were an enormous, disastrous mistake (about three years too late), and we talk about Laura Dodsworth's recent Substack article in which she shares her desire to go back to church but finds difficulty with the wokeness and lack of spirituality on display in local CofE outlets. We ask why the Church of England hierarchy continues to promote the alternative green religion of Net Zero and engages so little with traditional Christian themes of sin, repentance, forgiveness and eternal life. Maybe it's time for us to try a different approach? | |||
| 23 Jun 2023 | Pronouns: Cat/Catself | 01:42:00 | |
Church of England revs with a difference Daniel French, Jamie Franklin and Thomas Pelham sit down for a bumper episode catching up on a number of important stories from the past couple of weeks: | |||
| 30 Jun 2023 | Discrimination in Cricket (A Very Serious Problem) - Irreverend Episode 129 | 01:22:39 | |
Church of England revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Thomas Pelham sit down to catch up on the week's main talking points: | |||
| 14 Jul 2023 | Is God the "Father" Sexist? | 01:27:04 | |
Join CofE revs with a difference Jamie, Tom and Daniel for a discussion of all the recent news in Church and society. This week: | |||
| 21 Jul 2023 | Is Pride a Sin? | 01:44:03 | |
Rev with a difference Jamie Franklin sits down to review the most pressing issues in church and society. This week: | |||
| 28 Jul 2023 | Guns, Porn and Stem Cells: The CofE's Ethical Investment Policy | 01:18:03 | |
Revs with a difference Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin are back bringing up all the big stories. Today, talking about "faith leaders", including Rowan Williams, backing Sadiq Khan's ULEZ tax raid on car owners, the Church of England's questionable ethical policy around financial investment, particularly concerning the areas of pornography, guns and stem-cell research, and a reverend is debanked: could we be next? | |||
| 04 Aug 2023 | "Your comments will not stand!" with debanked vicar Richard Fothergill | 01:39:31 | |
Special guest the Rev'd Richard Fothergill joined revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Daniel French for the second half of this episode to discuss his recent experience of being debanked by the Yorkshire Building Society for his shockingly prejudicial comments about transgenderism. But our conversation was more wide-ranging, taking in Richard's experience in starting the international movement which goes by the name of The Filling Station (https://thefillingstation.org/) in response to the weakness of many local churches and the general spiritual darkness of the surrounding culture. | |||