Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs

This podcast is free and will not go behind a paywall. If you enjoy what we are doing, please consider supporting us on a monthly basis at our Patreon account or giving a one-off donation at Buy Me A Coffee . We very much appreciate your contribution and it will help us to expand this enterprise as we move forward in the future. Church of England vicars Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin are back. We r...

The three revs are back in conversation. In this week's episode Thomas Pelham, Daniel French and Jamie Franklin discuss the latest and most salient news items from a Christian perspective. Beginning with a reflection on Romans 1, we move on to ask whether the Prime Minister was right to say that only women can have penises, review the strange DIY Covid video sick-note made by a clearly not to...

Revs Jamie Franklin and Thomas Pelham are back discussing news and current events from a Christian perspective. This week: Gary Lineker: ethnic minority or pasty-faced white man? You decide. Also in the news, Jordan Peterson savages the sacrifice of children on the altar of a brutal far-left ideology (ouch!), academic Tim Hayward is investigated by the British government for tweeting that there ar...

Rev Tom Pelham is back joining regular host Rev Jamie Franklin. In an episode packed full of spiritually enlightened cultural wisdom, we ask why the English football team has become so terrible (maybe because they have stopped caring about football and now imagine that the sport is a vehicle for the transmission of their "values"?) and why Hollywood seems so unilaterally incapable of mak...

Church of England vicars Daniel French and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events, this week taking our Scriptural reflection from Genesis 1:28-30: man and woman created by God after his own image. In this bumper edition, we range through renewables, energy bills and green "technology", the political philosophy of the England Football team, Star Wa...

Church of England vicars Daniel and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events, this week taking our Scriptural reflection from 2 Corinthians 11:12-15: the apostle Paul's observation that Satan masquerades as an angel of light and what that can tell us about geopolitical events and the godless humanitarian philosophy that underlies some of them. To that end...

In this episode of Irreverend, Church of England vicars Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events, this week taking our Scriptural reflection from 1 Timothy 2:-14: Paul's teaching that we should pray that governments allow us to live godly lives. In current events: we look at the new Schools Bill which threatens to change the relationship...

In this special episode, Rev'd Jamie Franklin is joined by Wendy Charles-Warner, chair of Education Otherwise, and home educator and freedom fighter Amie Miles to talk about The Schools Bill. The Schools Bill was recently announced in The Queen's Speech and is a horrendously drafted piece of legislation that would destroy the basis for home education in this country. It is an unnecessary...

Nick Hudson is the chairman of PANDA (Pandemic Data and Analytics) (https://www.pandata.org), a group of multidisciplinary professionals who perceived the global reaction to Covid, and lockdown in particular, as overwrought and damaging to the point of causing a great tear in the fabric of society. PANDA stands for open debate and real science and challenges every aspect of the globalist "new...

CofE vicar Jamie Franklin sits down with director of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) UK, Ryan Christopher, to talk about the global assault on liberty and what Christians and all people of good will can do to push back against it. Ryan goes into detail about the implications on the Online Safety Bill and the Conversion Therapy Bill and why it is essential that as many Christians as possible becom...

In this episode of Irreverend , Church of England vicars Daniel French and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events, this week taking our Scriptural reflection from 2 Corinthians 5:21: Christ's righteousness given to those who trust in him in exchange for our sinfulness. In current events: we look at different responses to the leaked draft implying that R...

For this week's episode, Church of England vicar Jamie Franklin was joined by The Rev'd Dr Joseph Boot to talk about issues arising from his new book Ruler of Kings: Towards a Christian Vision of Government . We talked about the cult of the expert, our propensity in the wake of the rejection of a Christian culture to deify the state and to thereby attempt to create a globalist utopian on...

Eventbrite page for our first official live event (a couple of balcony seats may still be available): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irreverend-face-to-face-tickets-297146823147 In this episode Church of England vicars Thomas Pelham, Daniel French and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events, this week taking our Scriptural reflection from John 3:16-21: God&ap...

Until recently journalist and cultural commentator Calvin Robinson was training to be a priest in the Church of England. Although initially the Church of England hierarchy had agreed that Calvin would pursue ordained ministry alongside his public engagement, he was unceremoniously dropped from the training process after two years and told he would not be being ordained. He was told that his opinio...

We're on a post-Easter holiday this week, so journey back in time with us to November last year when we were just beginning our walk through the book of Revelation, Durham Cathedral was closing its doors to the infectious hordes of unvaccinated worshippers and Australia and Austria were attempting to outdo one another in competitive vaccine tyranny. In the second half of the episode, we were...

Snap up one of the few remaining balcony seats still available for our first ever official Irreverend conference ! In this episode Church of England vicars Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events, this week taking our Scriptural reflection from Philippians 2:5-11: Christ making himself nothing through the cross in order to serve God. In curr...

In this episode of Question the Rev, Church of England vicars Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin address the question of a Christian approach to meditation. Notices: We are no longer uploading our videos to YouTube. Please subscribe to us on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@irreverend:5 Thanks to our Patreon sponsors! Support us from £1.50 plus VAT per month: https://patreon.com/irreverend Jamie's G...

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Snap up one of the few remaining balcony seats still available for our first ever official Irreverend conference ! In this episode Church of England vicars Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events, this week taking our Scriptural reflection from John 12:42-43: leaders who cannot speak for fear of being cancelled by the Pharisees. We attempt n...

In this special episode, Church of England vicar Jamie Franklin reproduces a talk given recently at an event in Cambridge on "The Ideological Challenge of Science".  In this talk I argue that Western culture is permeated by a naturalistic and mechanistic way of experiencing the world, that this worldview is based on a number of unprovable assumptions and is at base superstitious, that th...

In this episode of Question the Rev, Church of England vicars Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin attempt to answer the question of how people outside of the Church are meant to begin choosing a denomination. Notices: We are no longer uploading our videos to YouTube. Please subscribe to us on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@irreverend:5 Thanks to our Patreon sponsors! Support us from £1.50 plus VAT per m...

From Saturday April, snap up one of the balcony seats still available for our first ever official Irreverend conference ! In this episode Church of England vicars Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events, this week taking our Scriptural reflection from a heavenly vision in Revelation 7 and moving on to discuss Will Smith's assault upon C...

Recorded in March 2022 at The Colchester Mission, Revs Tom and Jamie were involved in a wide-ranging conversation with Christian Concern's Benjamin John and the Rev'd Dr Bernard Randall, including the following: the right relationship between the law of God and the law of the country, woke intolerance and the persecution of Rev'd Bernard for stating that pupils should be able to mak...

In this episode of Question the Rev, Church of England vicars Daniel French and Jamie Franklin address the question of whether or not God accepts people who are not Christians. Notices: Thanks to our Patreons! Support us from £1.50 plus VAT per month: https://patreon.com/irreverend Jamie's Good Things Substack blog/newsletter: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com Irreverend Weekly Sermon Audio:...

From Saturday March 26th, book in to our first ever official Irreverend conference ! Church of England vicars Daniel French and Jamie Franklin get together to offer a spiritual perspective on current events, this week talking about the relevance of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Revelation 6:1-8, the possibility of climate and fuel lockdowns after a recent announcement by the International...