Bread and Rosaries

Send us Fan Mail Ben and Adam are joined by Luca von Badass (definitely their real name) to talk about inclusion, bishops supporting equal marriage, and who should be kicked out! Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our theme song is "Good Morning" by Amine Maxwell, available here: https://s...

Send us Fan Mail Adam is joined not by Ben, who got called into work at the last minute, but by the Rev'd Robin Hanford.  Robin and Adam return the podcast to the topic of Remembrance and ask if a radical Remembrance is possible. Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Find Robin Hanford here: Twitt...

Send us Fan Mail A spectre is haunting the podcast, no sadly not communism, but the next best thing: special guest Emma Holton.  Should Christians celebrate Halloween?  Are light parties cool?  Should Ben watch Star Trek?  All will be answered in the most spooktacular episode of Bread and Rosaries yet! Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadan...

Send us Fan Mail Last episode was far too positive, so we balance it out by getting real depressing this week. We talk through a variety of things, partially because we are interested in them but mostly because Ben didn't read the article he was meant to.  We offer half-baked thoughts on the recent Italian and Brazillian elections, and compare Theology Slam to It's Always Sunny In Philad...

Send us Fan Mail In response to a listener's question, we try to work out why we still bother with faith and the church, despite everything we moan about on every podcast. We have tried out very best to be positive this week, but theres still plenty of complaining and being annoyed, because we are grumpy leftists. Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosarie...

Send us Fan Mail We're back after our month off. We recorded this before the Queen died, so we don't talk about that all, which may be a nice break for some of you. We also had some audio issues with the second half of the podcast, so we had to use a much worse audio source than usual, so the quality of the sound is much worse than usual. Sorry! This week we welcome Liz Truss as our lead...

Send us Fan Mail In our final episode before we take a summer break for Ben to move house, we chat to Damon Garcia about his excellent book The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus. You can buy the book here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-god-who-riots/damon-garcia/9781506480374 You can find more of Damon here: https://damongarcia.com Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRo...

Send us Fan Mail We've missed the last episode due to the horrors of Ofsted and Covid, our two least favourite acronyms, but we're back to talk about strikes. With 2022 shaping up to be a year of industrial action, it seemed a good time to think about strikes. We also chat a little bit about the Tory Leadership Election, Roe v Wade, and why we're the Velvet Underground of podcasts (...

Send us Fan Mail We like to think we're fashionably late to the COVID-19 party, but it may just be that we're both perpetually late people.  This episode is also two days late so I guess the evidence is stacking up... In this episode Ben and Adam talk about COVID conspiracy theories, the Church's response to the pandemic and links between climate change and epidemics. They may also...

Send us Fan Mail In celebration of HM the Queen's platinum jubilee, Bread and Rosaries is proud to present this super-mega bumper edition of the show! In this episode we discuss the wonders of monarchy, including segments on recent comments from the Archbishop of Canterbury about HRH the Duke of York and his benevolent efforts to combat sex trafficking. Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/B...

Send us Fan Mail Jonny, a Methodist minister in training and a married gay man, joins us to talk about the decision of the Methodist Church to allow same-sex marriages in their churches. Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our outro music is Dancing Queen by Abba Our theme song is good morning by Ami...

Send us Fan Mail We're back!! After a long break, we have returned with a slightly looser episode looking at atonement theories, whether we really have to pray for our leaders, and chatting about a Rowan Williams article. We go on a lot of tangents in this one, including Adam's bookcase of shame and Ben proving that he did learn something at school after all. The Williams article we talk...

Send us Fan Mail Official wife of the podcast, Sarah Molyneux-Hetherington, joins us for her second episode, this time helping us think through what purity culture looks like in the UK.  If that doesn't do it for you, listen anyway as she and Ben finally spill the beans about what happened on their wedding night!  There's a couple of slight changes in audio where we've had to stitch...

Send us Fan Mail Content note: between 16 minutes 40 seconds and 21 minutes, we discuss child sexual abuse fairly extensively. Please do skip past this segment if that's what's right for you. Our short break ended up taking 6 months, but we are back! Recorded a couple of months ago, in this episode we talk about Hillsong church, debate who was the biggest Hillsong fanboy and discuss what...

Send us Fan Mail Because the way our episodes are numbered aren't already stupid enough, we've added letters into the mix. We fired off some hot takes that got cut from last week's episode in order to keep the run time below an hour, but we didn't want to deprive the world of our nonsense, so here's a bonus episode. This is a very rough and ready cut, but we thought we&apo...

Send us Fan Mail It's been a while but we're back with just the two of us, and we take the chance to dive straight into some heavy stuff! We talk about the wave of protests that have been happening in the UK, and the police response to them. We try and think about the way in which the Church works to legitimise police violence, and then try to find some resources from within Christianity...

Send us Fan Mail We are joined by the writer, artist and activist Harriet Williamson to talk about CS Lewis and his books the Chronicles of Narnia.  We also discuss post-lockdown anxiety, the real reason women shouldn't be in battles, and our groundbreaking theory that Aslan represents Jesus. Content note: Between roughly 12 minutes and 22 minutes of the podcast, we discuss mental health issu...

Send us Fan Mail We are joined by Rev. Chris Howson to celebration the tenth anniversary of the release of his book A Just Church: 21st Century Liberation Theology in Action. Chris reflects on how some of the ideas and themes of the book have played out over the last ten years, and what role liberation theology can continue to play in UK Christianity. We also talk about Covid deaths in vulnerable...

Send us Fan Mail This is the second half of our fascinating conversation with Anthony Reddie, one of the foremost proponents of Black Liberation Theology in the UK. We released the first part of this conversation last week, and it is also well worth listening to. In this episode, we discuss the relationship between American and British Black Liberation Theologies, being a Christian in leftist circ...

Send us Fan Mail This is part one of a conversation we were extremely lucky to have with Anthony Reddie, one of the foremost proponents of Black Liberation Theology in the UK. Anthony introduces us to some of the ideas of British Black Liberation Theology, and how it enabled him to remain Christian in the face of white supremacy. We also send our love and solidarity to the Stansted 15 and migrants...

Send us Fan Mail We are joined by the brilliant Rachel Sales, to start what will undoubtedly be a recurring conversation about autism. We talk about the way gender affects both the experience of autism and the diagnostic process, as well as the inauguration of Joe Biden and the church's approach to the welfare states. Rachel explains Quidditch to us, Adam talks about his love for Kamala Harri...

Send us Fan Mail Come to be concerned about Christian Concern, stay to enjoy Adam wanting to make Justin Bieber Archbishop of Canterbury and Ben being unable to say the word "truth".  We also talk about the danger of fascism in the UK, question whether Jesus was a collaborator, and get extremely bored reading a Keir Starmer article. Was Jesus a Collaborator? - https://newleftreview.org/s...

Send us Fan Mail We are joined by Sarah, who has now officially been on more podcasts than she has listened to, to discuss 2020 and how much we all enjoyed it. This is a pretty loose and chilled episode and we really go hard on the classic themes of the show: how terrible the British immigration system is, how horribly transphobic the UK is, and good old-fashioned Christian homophobia. We also loo...

Send us Fan Mail We are joined by the brilliant Damon Garcia, a liberation theologian and YouTuber, to talk about Christmas. We whine about the new coronavirus rules in the UK, complain about the way capitalism ruins Christmas, and suggest some ways in which Christmas might actually be good after all. Controversially, we actually talk about the bible quite a bit in this one, and condemn ourselves...

Send us Fan Mail Adam rants about remembrance, poppies and the church. Ben rants about the EHRC report into Labour. Neither of us care enough to rant about the American elections. There's not one but two Simpsons clips in the episode, so you know its going to be good. The Politics Theory Other episode we mention is #100 Corbyn, Labour, and the EHRC report w/ Barnaby Raine . Adam's writte...