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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

Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs J.A. Franklin, T.J. Pelham, Daniel French

    • Religion & Spirituality
    • 4.8 • 194 Ratings

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

    Based Feminist: Louise Perry

    Based Feminist: Louise Perry

    Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk with journalist and author of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution Louise Perry.
    In a wide-ranging conversation, Louise shares about her motivations in writing the book, her increasing openness and sympathy toward the Christian outlook on family, motherhood, and sexual relationships, the challenges to contemporary society posed by pornography, the advent of increasingly sophisticated Artificial Intelligence, and low-birth rates. She also talks about the reliance of the secular culture on Christian ideas and why the Church of England is getting it so badly wrong. That and much, much more as always.
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    For Louise Perry: https://www.louisemperry.co.uk/
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    • 1 hr 14 min
    Deconstructing Whiteness

    Deconstructing Whiteness

    Church of England revs with a difference Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down to discuss the big talking points in church and state. This time: the Church of England is hiring a Deconstructing Whiteness officer. The role can be yours alongside a salary of 36k. In other CofE news, a billion pounds is going to be raised by the Church Commissioners to repay the descendants of African slaves and the report recommending this also suggests an apology for displacing "traditional African religion". We ask if this is all really an appropriate use of the Church of England's assets and what it reveals about its underlying motivations and theology.
    In civic news, Rishi Sunak has given a bizarre speech in which he reveals something of his own personal political theology. Rev Jamie responds.
    That and much much more as ever!
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    Links:
    Deconstructing Whiteness: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/02/cofe-appoints-deconstructing-whiteness-officer-racial/
    CofE to raise £1billion to address past wrongs of slavery: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/04/church-england-told-raise-1bn-slavery-fund-wealthy-donors/
    Full Racial Justice Report: https://hrjfund.org/
    Madeleine Grant on CofE Leadership: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/05/church-leadership-is-destroying-the-coe-i-love/
    Rishi Sunak’s speech: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TVE5MuBAxsM&pp=ygUMc3VuYWsgc3BlZWNo
    Joe Rogan on the need for religion: https://twitter.com/JoelWBerry/status/1762839261278085438
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    • 1 hr 41 min
    Woker Face

    Woker Face

    Church of England vicars with a difference Daniel French, Thomas Pelham, and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the most important issues in church and state. This time, we have a special conversation about the Church of England's most recent General Synod in which the Bishop of Dover said that every parish in the CofE should draw up a "race action plan" and that we should be more woke than we already are. In other news, an amendment to a motion concerning the controversial Living in Love and Faith process claiming that there exist people who do not agree to agreeing to disagree is rejected for somewhat obscure reasons. We ask the important questions: Does racism really exist in the Church of England? If it does, what legitimate means should the Church take to address it? Should vicars and, indeed the Church, be political in nature, or spiritual, or both?
    This, and much much more as ever. We hope you enjoy.
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    Links:
    Church of England should be even more woke: Ruse Hudson Wilkin - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/25/rose-hudson-wilkin-church-of-england-race-action-plan/
    The Church of England should stop distracting itself with ‘racial justice’: Andrew Tettenborn - https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-church-of-england-should-stop-distracting-itself-with-racial-justice/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1708970531
    Summary of Living and Love and Faith business at General Synod:
    https://www.anglicanfutures.org/post/what-happened-at-general-synod-living-in-love-and-faith-feb-24?fbclid=IwAR1js4sR2JzkbSYCbDRA5mMNkF3yfLJyVg3r6ep-WcrPYNwVxxU5S6_8sL0
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    • 1 hr 36 min
    Cringe Line

    Cringe Line

    Church of England revs with a difference, Jamie Franklin and Tom Pelham sit down to talk about the most significant happenings in church and state. This time:
    - Across the pond, for a look at how American evangelicalism is taking entertainment in church much farther than Canterbury Cathedral.
    - In the UK, Sadiq Khan goes all in for woke rebranding of Overground Line.
    - And in the Church of England, permission denied to St Nicholas's Church to use the pride flag as an altar frontal.
    That, and a bit more as ever. Enjoy!
    Jamie's Blog: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
    King's School "Rise of Classical Education": https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rise-of-classical-christian-education-in-the-uk-tickets-798310727877?aff=ebdsshcopyurl&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing
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    Bible Ladyy criteria for eligible godly man
    Justin Peters video
    Cringing new Overground names
    Khan woke suggestions for fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square
    Leicester Church Denied Faculty for displaying Pride Flag on altar
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    • 1 hr 9 min
    Canterbury Fails

    Canterbury Fails

    Church of England revs with a difference Jamie Franklin, Thomas Pelham, and Daniel French get together to review this week's biggest talking points. This time:
    - The Canterbury Cathedral rave in the nave causes widespread outrage, plus an interview with the counter-nave, prayer-protest organiser, plus what else is Canterbury Cathedral up to these days?
    - The plot thickens at General Synod as bishops are said to have been less than honest with their deliberations over gay blessings.
    - parkrun becomes the most recent formerly fun thing to be ruined by transgender ideology.
    - And an email from an anonymous source reveals the very disturbing incursion of critical theory into the Church of England's safeguarding training.
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    Links:
    Gen Z doesn’t want disco cathedrals: https://unherd.com/newsroom/gen-z-doesnt-want-disco-cathedrals/
    BBC Article on cathedral rave:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-68279198
    Petition against raves in naves: https://www.change.org/p/anglican-deans-stop-turning-our-great-cathedrals-into-nightclubs?original_footer_petition_id=37869401&algorithm=promoted&source_location=petition_footer&grid_position=17&pt=AVBldGl0aW9uAATtPgIAAAAAZcbI154dpl42MjVhMGQ4MA%3D%3D
    Bishops' Orthodox “Theological Vision": https://www.premierchristianity.com/exclusive-cofe-bishops-offer-theological-vision-on-christian-life-and-discipleship/17188.article
    LLF FUBAR: https://www.psephizo.com/sexuality-2/llf-and-general-synod-all-fouled-up-or-beyond-repair/
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    • 1 hr 45 min
    Mysterious Mass Conversions

    Mysterious Mass Conversions

    Church of England revs with a difference Tom Pelham, Jamie Franklin, and Daniel French unite once again to talk about the big stories happening in church and state. This time:
    - WWIII, conscription, and why is Tucker Carlson interviewing Vladimir Putin?
    - The Popular Conservative Conference as Jacob Rees-Mogg and Lewis Goodall go head-to-head.
    - The cancer diagnosis of King Charles III.
    - Asylum seeker and ostensible Christian convert Abdul Ezidi maims mother and two children in corrosive acid attack, and the church's involvement in facilitating bogus asylum claims.
    - Outrage as interim theological advisor to the Living in Love and Faith process is revealed to be an orthodox Christian who believes in his own Church's formularies.
    That, a quick-fire Question the Rev, and much more as ever.
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    Links:
    Reese-Mogg on Popular Conservatism Conference: https://twitter.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1754877980642296245
    Church aiding asylum seekers: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/02/03/church-aiding-asylum-claims-mass-scale-ex-ministers/
    Outrage over orthodox theological advisor: https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/2-february/news/uk/bishop-of-newcastle-stands-down-from-llf-over-serious-concerns-about-interim-advise
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    • 1 hr 40 min

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