Bread and Rosaries

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Send us Fan Mail Cap out the fourth season with Adam as he reads from start to finish, Gerrard Winstanley's 1649 pamphlet 'The True Levellers Standard Advanced'. Read along here Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Support the show Everything Bread and Ros...

Send us Fan Mail Jonny, Ben and Adam try to work out why 'bothsidesism' seems so prevalent in both the Church and wider society, particularly in coverage of Israel's ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.  So a nice light topic then! Liturgies from Below: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781791007355/Liturgies-Below-Praying-People-Ends-179100735X/plp Find us here: Website - breadand...

Send us Fan Mail Jonny tries to justify his love of postmodernism whilst Lu fans the flames of Adam's oscillating between incredulity and rage.  Consensus is found however, in the assertion that Jordan Peterson is a hack. Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Music c...

Send us Fan Mail Adam and Ben discuss why they still bother with politics, how their Christianity relates to this and their differing approached to doubt. They also discuss Israel's ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. You can find a form letter for writing to your MP about Palestine on our website: https://breadandrosaries.com/2023/10/24/writing-to-your-mp-about-palestine/ Find us her...

Send us Fan Mail Adam and Jonny are joined by liberation theologian, chaplain and comrade Chris Howson for his third appearance.  Chris tells us about the upcoming Liberation Theology Gathering which was upcoming at time of recording, but has now taken place for 2023. Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandros...

Send us Fan Mail Jonny, Ben and Adam are joined by Luke Larner to talk about the new book Confounding The Mighty: Stories of Church, Social Class and Solidarity which he edited. We talk about the confusing way class is often understood, navigating identity politics, and the class nature of Brexit, as well as the the joys of being a Premier League parish! Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.co...

Send us Fan Mail Bible scholar, podcaster and TikTok star Dr. Dan McClellan joins Ben and Adam to talk constructions of Jesus, univocality and biblical contradictions... and revolution! Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Links: Data Over Dogma podcast Dan's TikTok...

Send us Fan Mail Ben and Adam have a look at the topic of debt, drawing from Marika Rose's book 'Theology for the End of the World'.  They talk Christian moral values, David Graeber and the Mob!  Plus find out about the patron saint of comedians! Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@g...

Send us Fan Mail Ben and Adam are joined by new cohost and former guest Jonny Bell to talk about the social impact of the Diggers.  Together, they delve into the social reverberations sparked by the Diggers, ask whether an excess of moralism has ruined cultural criticism, and discover a very good boy sainted for his uncompromising stance on cops. Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebo...

Send us Fan Mail Ben and Adam continue the conversation about the Diggers and we learn about someone so radical even the Quakers disowned him! Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Theme song: ' Good Morning ' by Amine Maxwell ( CC BY 3.0 ) Outro " Outlandi...

Send us Fan Mail Historian Lívia Roberge joins Adam and Lu on their quest to explore the story of Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers!  On the way they discover why former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro hates alligators and why it's definitely 'Wars of the Three Kingdoms' rather than 'English Civil War' or 'English Revolution'! Elmbridge Museum's ' S...

Send us Fan Mail Ben is joined by Sarah to discuss some of the recent safeguarding news in the Church alongside her research into spiritual abuse. For a lighter topic, we discuss people dying in an exploding submarine. Content warning - With the exception of the opening segment, almost the entirety of this episode deals with issues of abuse in the church. Whilst we don’t describe any acts of abuse...

Send us Fan Mail Even by our standards, there are a lot of tangents in this one. Ben and Adam talk about nostalgia (bad), peasant revolts (good), Lord of The Flies (bad), The Beatles (good) and Justin Welby (complicated). Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our theme so...

Send us Fan Mail Have you heard the good news?  We sure have and it sounds kinda communist! Adam's article can be found here . Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Theme song: 'Good Morning' by Amine Maxwell (CC BY 3.0). Outro: 'A 2nd Devil' by T...

Send us Fan Mail Ben and Adam fight back from technological adversity to talk about the National Sociali... er... I mean National Conservatism conference.  Content warning - we talk about the murder of Jordan Neely, a black homeless person, from about 29 minutes in until about 37 minutes in. The articles Ben talks about are: https://itself.blog/2023/05/15/who-is-my-neighbor/ and https://defector.c...

Send us Fan Mail The gang attempt to be positive.  The results are mixed.  Welcome to the left! Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our theme song is "Good Morning" by Amine Maxwell, available here . It is licensed under CC BY 3.0, available here . Our outro i...

Send us Fan Mail The gang are joined by writer, researcher, education adviser and Alexander technique teacher Dr. Jenny Fox Eades to talk about motherhood, autism, wellbeing in education, and much more!   You can find her at her website jennyfoxeades.com . Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail....

Send us Fan Mail Returning guest Jonny Bell joins us* to talk about his first (almost) year as a Methodist presbyter.  He talks about working as a queer communist minister, listening and finding common ground with those you disagree with.  He also nerds out about dead philosophers. *By 'us' we mean Adam as Lu and Ben were unfortunately not about for this one.  Presumably they were conspi...

Send us Fan Mail We are joined by returning guest Chris Howson, who guides us through some reflection on liberation theology, critical pedagogy, and corporate worship. He also tells us about his extremely eventful night of 3 parties, his love of graveyards, and what he is banned from doing on Halloween. Sorry if Ben's audio goes a bit wonky, we had some technical issues! Article on Hillsong i...

Send us Fan Mail Come and join us as we toast future SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland, Kate Forbes' progressive new vision for Scotland - Christian fundamentalism! Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our theme song is "Good Morning" by Amine Maxw...

Send us Fan Mail The Church of England is up to its usual shenanigans, so we are too. We talk through the latest goings on with the battle for same-sex marriage in the Church of England, and we promise it's the last time we will do so for a while! There's also all the usual fun of Mind Grapes, Saint of the Week and wild detours off topic. Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Face...

Send us Fan Mail It's late, it's cobbled together from multiple sessions and for a bit of it you can hear Ben's washing machine on a spin cycle, but the hotly anticipated Episode 28 is here! We chat through things that have been happening, most of them bad. Ben and Adam make bad attempts at time machine noises. There is a discussion of what we want to happen to our bodies when we di...

Send us Fan Mail The crew try to work out just how sinful alcohol is by thinking about the Church's history with it as well as their own! Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our theme song is "Good Morning" by Amine Maxwell, available here . Our outro is...

Send us Fan Mail Luca von Badass joins Ben and Adam once again, but this time with full cohost status! The gang talk about strikes, unions and the birth of the sweet baby Jesus.  This Christmas special is not late because there are 12 days of Christmas.  Fight me. Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian...