Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs

Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin get together to talk about a week of big stories.- Archbishop Justin Welby wishes Muslims a happy Ramadan and enjoys an Iftar meal or two for himself. - Horrific mass murder in Nashville school carried about by trans shooter.- World athletics bans trans women (or men) from competing in women's sports. - Nordic Roman Catholic bishops speak out against trans ideology.- More information on the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.Your question answered in Question the Rev, and much much more as always on Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs!Please Support!Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend). Subscribe to Jamie's Blog here: https://jamiefranklin.substack.comFor your merchandise needs: https://irreverendmerch.bss.designLinks:Happy Ramadan from ArchbishTrans shooter massacre VictimsTrans resistant network statementWorld Athletics bans trans womenNordic Bishops take stand against transgenderismTrans trainsJordan Peterson - Trans activism is sexist and delusionalLinks mentioned in Ukraine email: https://orthochristian.com/152608.htm and https://orthochristian.com/152603.htmlSupport the show

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:  - We ask "Is Daniel as inclusive as the Oxfam Inclusive Language guide?" (Spoiler: he's definitely not)- MP Ben Bradshaw attempts a parliamentary takeover of the Church of England by forcing a change in the doctrine of marriage through political means.- German Roman Catholic bishops go rogue and announce full gay marriage come what may from the Vatican.- In other Vatican news, the universalistic Abrahamic Family House has now opened in the UAE. Fully endorsed by Pope Francis who apparently signed a document saying that the existence of other religions is an expression of the will of God. - Dutch farmers trash WEF stooge Mark Rutte in shock election result.- Christian lecturer sacked by Methodist theological college for "homosexuality is invading the church" tweet.- Email of the Week which details persecution of Ukrainian Orthodox Church by Ukrainian government.And, after Daniel had to go, Jamie goes on a lengthy peroration about the importance of taking responsibility for your actions, inspired by his take on the manager of Tottenham Hotspur's behaviour this week.Please Support!Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend). Subscribe to Jamie's Blog here: https://jamiefranklin.substack.comFor your merchandise needs: https://irreverendmerch.bss.designLinks:Oxfam Inclusive Language GuideBradshaw Parliamentary Takeover of CofEDutch Farmers Protest Party Shock Election WinOfficial Opening of the Abrahamic Family HouseChristian Lecturer Sacked for Homosexuality Invading the Church Tweets Tucker Carlson on Ukrainian Orthodox PersecutionNotices:Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.comJamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.comIrreverend Sermon Audio: https://irreverendsermonaudio.buzzsprout.comSupport the show

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.The Book of Vision is about healing, medicine and the human soul. It tells the story of a real Prussian doctor from the eighteenth century whose approach was medicine was one of listening and developing a human connection with his patients. This approach is contrasted with the emerging modern idea of human beings as machines that simply need to be tinkered with in order to produce health.Robin and Jamie talked about the relevance of the film's themes to the response to Covid-19 and what that response revealed about society's understanding of healing, health and medicine. They also spoke about the importance of a holistic approach to health that involves not only preventing ourselves from becoming ill but cultivating and nourishing our souls as well as our bodies.Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend)For your merchandise needs: https://irreverendmerch.bss.designLinks:Prevent Watchdog Blacklist: CS Lewis and more details on the list Gary Lineker owns the inept BBCSNP Leadership - Humza Yusuf, up to birth sex-selective abortion Notices:Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.comJamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.comIrreverend Sermon Audio: https://irreverendsermonaudio.buzzsprout.comSupport the show

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.Church of England reverends Tom and Jamie discuss all these stories, give you a brief update on what life as a young vicar is like, do some quickfire Question the Revs and much more. All in this week's episode of Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs!To join Jamie's Substack and support his writing efforts: https://jamiefranklin.substack.comSupport us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend)For your merchandise needs: https://irreverendmerch.bss.designLinks:Prevent Watchdog Blacklist: CS Lewis and more details on the list Gary Lineker owns the inept BBCSNP Leadership - Humza Yusuf, up to birth sex-selective abortion Notices:Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.comJamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.comIrreverend Sermon Audio: https://irreverendsermonaudio.buzzsprout.comSupport the show

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!For your merchandise needs: https://irreverendmerch.bss.designSupport us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend)Links: Lockdown Files“The Fat Sex Therapist”Drag Night in ChurchNotices:Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.comJamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.comIrreverend Sermon Audio: https://irreverendsermonaudio.buzzsprout.comSupport the show

Church of England vicars with a difference as Tom Pelham, Jamie Franklin and Daniel French get together to discuss all the big stories:- Lockdown Files reveal thousands of government WhatsApp messages sent at the height of Covid crisis and Matt Hancock does not come off well.- Hancock squirms on Good Morning Britain as he attempts to excuse his rule-shattering behaviour because it was technically not illegal.- Rev. Dr. Bernard Randall is unsuccessful in unfair dismissal case against Trent College Nottingham.- Greta Thunberg protests against windfarm because it will disturb reindeer. - CofE "spokesman" says Putin is wrong in his criticisms of Church.All this, your email of the week taking Daniel to task for comments about Putin in last week's episode and much more as always!For your merchandise needs: https://irreverendmerch.bss.designSupport us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend)Links: Lockdown Files: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/five-things-we-learned-from-the-lockdown-files/ Hancock squirms on Good Morning Britain: https://thehighwire.com/videos/bill-gates-and-matt-hancock-squirm-when-questioned-by-reporters/ Bernard Randall: Rod Dreher (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/anglican-vicar-fired-for-christian-sermon-loses-court-case/) and Bernard Randall ( and Bernard Randall) https://thecritic.co.uk/my-fight-for-free-speech-goes-on/ Thunberg Against Wind: https://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/27/greta-thunberg-protests-against-wind-farms/ Church "Spokesman” hits back at Putin: https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2023/24-february/news/world/putin-s-attack-on-c-of-e-is-simply-wrong-spokesman-says Notices:Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.comJamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.comIrreverend Sermon Audio: https://irreverendsermonaudio.buzzsprout.comSupport the show

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:- Grant Shapps and Bill Gates mysterious net-zero rendezvous at Imperial College London- Church of England trolled by Vladimir Putin- Kate Forbes too Christian for SNP leadership. Woke/Muslim Humza Yousaf preferable- Roald Dahl whitewashed by joyless "sensitivity readers"- What is going on at the Asbury Revival?- Tories line up less woke Archbishop of Canterbury to replace Welby- And the latest in the catastrophic fallout from the CofE same-sex blessing General Synod as Church of England is declared schismatic by the Global Southern Fellowship of Anglican Church.This, a Question the Rev on a Christian attitude to immigration and much much more as always on this week's edition of Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs!For your merchandise needs: https://irreverendmerch.bss.designSupport us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend)Links: Daniel's Interview on PsephizoShapps and Gates Imperial College RendezvousPutin trolls Church of EnglandKate Forbes too Christian for SNP leadershipRoald Dahl WhitewashAsbury Revival: Rod Dreher and Not the BeeLess woke Welby ReplacementChurch of England schismatic says GSFANotices:Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.comJamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.comIrreverend Sermon Audio: https://irreverendsermonaudio.buzzsprout.comSupport the show

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:- Nicola Sturgeon's ignominious exit and the perils of crossing swords with JK Rowling.- Unidentified Flying Objects over America. Shall we panic now or very soon?- "Scientists" say we should ban gendered and binary language. Thank goodness we have these people to tell us what to do.- And more, of course, on the developing story within the Church of England on the blessing of same-sex unions.All of this, a very pleasant email of the week and a Question the Rev posing a moral dilemma for an NHS radiographer.For your merchandise needs: https://irreverendmerch.bss.designSupport us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend)Links: Sturgeon goneUS Shoots Down UFOsScientists say ban sex binary"Living in Love and Faith: Moving Forward"Justin Welby: I was threatened by the government into accepting same-sex marriageNotices:Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.comJamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.comIrreverend Sermon Audio: https://irreverendsermonaudio.buzzsprout.comSupport the show

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.In this special episode, Church of England Rev Jamie Franklin discussed with Michael the appeal of Buddhist spirituality for people in the post-Christian secular West, points of similarity and difference from Christianity, Michael's experience of Buddhism during the Covid-19 crisis, the question of whether all faiths are equally valid and can lead to God, and why Christianity holds a more satisfying answer to the ultimate questions than Buddhism. Michael is a perceptive, intelligent and experienced commentator and this is an important conversation for anybody with an interest in world religions and Christianity.For your merchandise needs: https://irreverendmerch.bss.designSupport us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend)Notices:Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.comJamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.comIrreverend Sermon Audio: https://irreverendsermonaudio.buzzsprout.comSupport the show

Church of Englands revs but not as you know them with Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin. This week:- More evidence that you shouldn't trust the BBC- Satanism and Sam Smith update- Should God be gender neutral?- Church of England bishop Jill Duff better than others on same-sex controversy- Eclectic Question the Rev on the Lord's Prayer, dinosaurs and more besidesAll this and the usual theological banter as always on this week's episode of Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs!For your merchandise needs: https://irreverendmerch.bss.designSupport us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend)Links: Jamie Franklin, Technocracy and Same-Sex MarriageEvil BBC Shenanigans -https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64557459 https://reduxx.info/scotland-crossdressing-butcher-arrested-in-case-of-missing-child/ Sam Smith dresses up as PVC DevilGender Neutral Pronouns for GodJill Duff, The forecast ahead of Synod is stormyNotices:Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.comJamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.comIrreverend Sermon Audio: https://irreverendsermonaudio.buzzsprout.comSupport the show