Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs

Church of England revs with a difference Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the biggest stories in Church and state. This time: - Michael Gove's new definition of extremism. - Should we be wishing Muslims "Ramadan Mubarak"? - Why are our parishes bleeding volunteers? - The Archbishop of Canterbury's "Difference" course. - One listener's experien...

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 cont...

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...

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 mor...

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...

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...

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 s...

Church of England vicars with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the important issue of church and state. This time: - The possibility of Christian communism - World War III revisited as we pit Peter Hitchens against a passionate listener. - Four year-old "trans boy" secretly admitted to CofE primary school - Volunteer policewoman says you can't sin...

Church of England vicars with a difference Daniel French, Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the most pressing matters of church and state. This time: - The establishment has apparently decided that war with Russia and various other nuclear superpowers is inevitable and that this may include conscription. Have the ruling elites finally completely lost their minds? - The WEF Co...

Church of England vicars with a difference Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin survey the smoking rubble of western civilisation. This week talking about the failure of the managerial classes in church and state and taking in these stories: - The UK goes to war against the Houthis. - Lord Frost predicts total doom for Tories unless different course charted. - More on the Post Office scandal and its sord...

After a two-week break, Church of England revs with a difference Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin are back. This time with a special New Year's episode. This time talking  about the Post Office scandal and the role played by Anglican vicar and Post Office CEO Paula Vennels, the Church of England's recently released statistics for mission which show further significant decline for 2022, and...

Church of England vicars with a difference Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down for a special festive edition . This time: - Breathing is bad for the environment. What should we do about it? Fewer humans of course! - The Doctor Who Goblin song reads more like a Satanic paean to the murder of babies. - The diabolical shrine erected in the Iowan state building has been torn down by a zealous Ch...

Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham, Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the biggest stories in church and state. This time: - The CofE's questionable Christmas campaign Follow the Star. - Activist Jayne Ozanne says that repentance is not essential to Christianity. - Diocesan Bishop breaks ranks and does not commend the new prayers of Love and Faith beca...

Church of England revs with a difference Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the most interesting issues in church and state. This time: - Church of England's Christmas campaign 'Follow the Star' falls flat due to basic typos and theological errors. But what tone could the CofE strike to truly reach the culture? - Climate Change protestors bravely storm the quire...

Church of England revs with a difference Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the most interesting issues in church and state. This time: - Dr Who takes a turn for the woke. - AI, UFOs, Demonic Powers and the Antichrist. - Nigel Farage in I'm a Celeb. - The connection between transgenderism and Islam. - Pro- and Anti-Israel marches continuing in London. - New multi-faith &q...

Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the significant affairs of church and state. This time: - "Far right" anarcho-capitalist extremist Javier Milei is elected as Argentina's new President. - Ethnic Street Preachers share the message of Jesus's love with Anti-Israel protestors and are condemned for colonialism. - The C...

Church of England revs with a difference Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about all the big issues of church and state. This time: - "Football Lads" and anti-Israel protestors clash in Remembrance Day controversy. - Astra-Zeneca vaccine branded "defective" in landmark legal case. - CofE General Synod continues debate on sex and marriage. - And prominent atheist...

Church of England revs with a difference Jamie Franklin, Daniel French and Thomas Pelham sit down to talk about the big issues of church and state. Topics include: - The New Marks & Spencer Christmas ad: the perfect embodiment of modern nihilism? - Thoughts on Jordan Peterson and Philippa Stroud's ARC conference - The continued cultural vandalism of Just Stop Oil - Ongoing debate on Israe...

Danny Kruger joins the Rev’d Dr Jamie Franklin to talk about his new book Covenant: The New Politics of Family, Neighbourhood and Nation. Topics discussed: Danny’s intellectual and political influences including that of Edmund Burke.  Reasons to be fearful for life on earth and how “The Order” of duty and unchosen obligations can help us to preserve ourself against them.  The covenantal institutio...

Church of England revs with a difference Jamie Franklin, Thomas Pelham and Daniel French sit down to talk about big issues of church and state. In this episode: - Matthew Perry dies. We assess the cultural legacy of Friends and Perry's personal testimony of an encounter with God. - As the streets of London are filled with anti-Israel protestors calling for the destruction of Jews, Isabel Vaug...

For this very special episode, Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sat down in the same room to catch up on all the talking points in church and state. This time: we review the responses to Hamas' brutal killing of men, women and children on October 7th. The October Declaration says that we should stand by British Jews and condemns antisemitic violence, w...

Church of England revs with a difference Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down with "orthodox ordinand" Anna Mayo, one of the two leaders of the group of 78 trainee vicars who this week have petitioned the Church of England House of Bishops to desist in their attempts to move the church away from orthodoxy in the areas of marriage and human sexuality. In a wide-ranging conversation,...

Church of England revs with a difference Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the big stories in church and state. Serious geopolitical events are dominating the headlines as Hamas attacks Israel and full-scale war breaks out. We talk about how to orientate ourselves properly to such events from the perspective of Christian discipleship. We also give our view not only on the eve...

Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the most pressing issues in Church and state. This time: - Canadian Parliament honours Nazi who fought against the Russians in the Second World War. - Laurence Fox, Dan Wooten and Calvin Robinson are all suspended from GB News as the corporate media attempts to take the channel down. - Suella Braverman...

Church of England revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Daniel French sit down to talk about the big stories of the week in church and state.  We revisit the Russell Brand saga with particular reference to Caroline Dinenage MP's attempt to have every major platform demonetise and eject Brand. We get Daniel's take on the whole thing and talk about Brand's idiosyncratic form of Ne...