Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs

CofE Rev Jamie Franklin gives his instant reaction to King Charles III's Christmas Speech 2022. Five-star masterclass or one-star dud? This is Part One of a several-part series featuring Rev J responding to some topical Christmas and New Year speeches. To keep up with all the rest please press the subscribe on your chose pod-catcher right now!Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/irreverendSupport us on Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverendFor our February live event with Rod Dreher: https://irreverendpod.com/upcoming-events/For all of our merchandise: https://irreverendmerch.bss.designSupport the show

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Book in now to our February live event with Rod Dreher: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irreverend-live-with-rod-dreher-tickets-483820599437In our (sort of) festive episode, Church of England Revs Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to give a spiritual perspective on the big stories of our time. This week: Tom’s heroic antics in snowy Etchingham, the best World Cup ever in Qatar, God Rest Ye Merry edited for political purposes, reflections upon Andrew Bridgen’s intervention in the V-safety debate, woman arrested for silently praying outside abortion clinic - currently unclear whether or not the Archbishop of Canterbury supports the arrest - a Question the Rev on understanding the whole of church history and an email offering a conservative reappraisal of the desirableness of cars in society. That and much much more as ever on this week's Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs!Timings:00:00:00 Banter and Notices - Tom heroics in icy Etchingham, Rev J on best World Cup ever in disreputable Qatar, God Rest Ye (edited version)00:23:08 Scripture - John 1:1-5, “The Word became flesh”35:20:00 MP Andrew Bridgen says halt the V roll-out53:58:00 Woman arrested for praying outside abortion clinic1:10:50 Question the Rev - History of the Church and liturgy1:16:32 Email of the Week - Should conservatives approve of unrestricted car use?If you enjoy the show, please review, subscribe, share and support. For all your merchandise needs please go to https://www.irreverendpod.com and click on 'merch'. To support the show please see: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend and https://www.patreon.com/irreverend.Links:"Fury" over edited God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11560467/Fury-church-changes-lyrics-God-Rest-Ye-Merry-Gentlemen-inclusive.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton Andrew Bridgen and Dr Angus Dalgleish on the V-Roll-out: https://twitter.com/thereclaimparty/status/1604940118066098176 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryzvDNIcEn0https://dailysceptic.org/2022/12/19/i-have-tried-sounding-the-alarm-about-the-vaccines-causing-cancer-relapse-but-the-mainstream-media-dont-want-to-know/ Woman arrested for praying outside abortion clinic:https://adf.uk/woman-charged-for-thoughtcrime/ Justin Welby’s position:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jly2jNLKfe0 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.buzzsprouSupport the show

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.If you enjoy the show, please don't forget to review, subscribe, share and support if you possibly can. For all your merchandise needs please go to https://www.irreverendpod.com and click on 'merch'. To support the show please see: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend and https://www.patreon.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 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.All of this, banter, laughs and much much more in the week's episode of Irreverened: Faith and Current Affairs!If you enjoy the show, please don't forget to review, subscribe, share and support if you possibly can. For all your merchandise needs please go to https://www.irreverendpod.com and click on 'merch'. To support the show please see: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend and https://www.patreon.com/irreverend.Links:MET office guidance for cold weatherHancock to quit commonsCofE Mission StatisticsTrial Climate Lockdowns in OxfordHoly CofE on theories of the atonement including penal substitutionNotices: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 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!If you enjoy the show, please don't forget to review, subscribe, share and support if you possibly can. For all your merchandise needs please go to https://www.irreverendpod.com and click on 'merch'. To support the show please see: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend and https://www.patreon.com/irreverend.Links:Balenciaga Child Porn:https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/27/balenciaga-and-the-rise-of-paedo-chic/ MPs speak against right to abortion in UK Law:https://righttolife.org.uk/news/overwhelming-majority-of-mps-speak-against-introducing-right-to-abortion-in-uk-law Jesus could have been transgender:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/26/jesus-could-have-transgender-claims-cambridge-dean/CPS says Bible passages no longer appropriate:https://dailysceptic.org/2022/11/26/crown-prosecution-service-say-it-is-no-longer-appropriate-to-quote-some-passages-from-the-bible-in-public/ China lockdown protests:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/11/27/china-lockdown-protests-wuhan-covid-xi-jinping/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/27/could-beginning-end-xi-jinping/ 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 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.Find Why Machines Will Never Rule the World here.If you enjoy the show, please don't forget to review, subscribe, share and support if you possibly can. For all your merchandise needs please go to https://www.irreverendpod.com and click on 'merch'. To support the show please see: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend and https://www.patreon.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 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. In Question the Rev, questions about Bible translations, ex-NHS staff becoming lay preachers and whether or not the country should be officially Christian or secular from a political perspective. All that and more or course in this week's episode of Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! If you enjoy the show, please don't forget to review, subscribe, share and support if you possibly can. For all your merchandise needs please go to https://www.irreverendpod.com and click on 'merch'. To support the show please see: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend and https://www.patreon.com/irreverend.Links:Church says avoid planning choral services at time of World Cup final: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/21/avoid-carol-services-on-world-cup-final-day-church-of-england-vicars-told?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.churchsupporthub.org/sport-and-wellbeing-landing/article/making-the-most-of-the-world-cup-final-18thdec-2022.php German footballers cover mouths after being “banned” from wearing rainbow armbandsInfantino, "I feel Qatari"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 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!If you enjoy the show, please don't forget to review, subscribe, share and support if you possibly can. For all your merchandise needs please go to https://www.irreverendpod.com and click on 'merch'. To support the show please see: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend and https://www.patreon.com/irreverend.Timings:00:00 Welcome, Banter, Coming-up and Notices06:45 Prayer and Scripture: Revelation 11.15-1917:57 COP27: Justin Welby says world is close to point of no-return43:27 COP27: Rowan Williams leads delegation of faith leaders and proclaims ten principles of climate repentance1:08:36 University of Cambridge say churches should turn into circuses1:14:23 Covid-19 scientific study based on exaggerated evidence1:19:35 Question the Rev: What should I do about my unbelieving husband? and Should we boycott the Qatar World Cup?1:33:43 Email of the Week: Justin Welby wishes Sikhs joyful religious festivalLinks:Archbishop of Canterbury - The world is near the point of no return Rowan Williams and the Ten Principles for Climate Repentance -https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/national/23121107.ex-archbishop-canterbury-urges-government-combat-climate-crisis/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/multifaith-leaders-to-gather-in-israel-and-around-the-world-for-climate-repentance/ Daily Telegraph - Churches should host circuses to raise cashDaily Telegraph - Covid singing ban and indoor restrictions based on exaggerated evidenceNotices: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.cSupport the show

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!If you enjoy the show, please don't forget to review, subscribe, share and support if you possibly can. For all your merchandise needs please go to https://www.irreverendpod.com and click on 'merch'.To support the show -Please see: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend and https://www.patreon.com/irreverend. Find these details and more at https://irreverendpod.com.Links:Same-sex marriage: should the Church of England affirm culture, or confront it? Archbishop Cranmer - https://archbishopcranmer.com/same-sex-marriage-should-the-church-of-england-affirm-culture-or-confront-it/For the vacancy at The King's School please apply via email to the head teacher at kingalfredschool@outlook.com or visit their website at www.thekingalfredschool.co.uk for more information.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