Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs

Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the most pressing issues of the day. This time, we consider the allegations made against the actor and comedian Russell Brand. Are these allegations plausible or are they merely a calculated attack on  Brand by a system that would rather he was discredited and destroyed? We also talked about the implic...

Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham, Jamie Franklin and Daniel French get together to review the week's big talking points. This time: the shocking case of an anonymous girl in an NHS hospital whose life support is going to be turned off against her wishes, Daniel's piece in The Conservative Woman in which he considers a hypothetical future in which the Archbishop of C...

Church of England revs with a difference Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down to review the big talking points in Church and culture. This week, we catch up with Daniel's thoughts on the liberalisation of the clergy in the CofE, whilst Jamie comes face-to-face with Antifa at the March for Life. On Twitter, pro-life campaigners are being lambasted by liberal vicars, whereas a Tik Tok vide...

Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the recent survey in The Times which appears to show that the majority of clergy in the Church of England favour progressive liberalisation in areas such as gay relationships and women's ordination. More than that it also reveals a picture of a worn-out church that is declining and is staffed by o...

Christian author and broadcaster Justin Brierley joined the Rev Jamie Franklin to discuss his new book  The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God  and why he believes that we may be seeing signs of a revival of interest in Christianity in the Western world. Topics include: - The New Atheist movement: its appeal, internal division and eventual demise - Whether the Science vs. Religion question is rel...

Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the major events of this week. Amongst other things, we discussed the Church's somewhat questionable response to the Sunday scheduling of the Women's World Cup final: Is it really the right message to tell people that it's fine to skip church to watch it? And what are the wider implicati...

Liberalism has failed and its quasi-religious commitments are becoming more and more obvious to those affected by its deficiencies. There may come a time in the near future when liberalism's discontents rise up and demand a truly revolutionary change of regime. The Rev'd Dr Jamie Franklin sits down with Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and author of Why Libe...

Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the big stories of the week and many other things. This time: Outraged by the undemocratic ULEZ tax, so called ULEZ "blade-runners" take to the streets to vandalise cameras with tree loppers. We ask if such actions can be justified from a Christian perspective. And a Church in Cambridgeshire...

The latest episode from CofE revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Daniel French. It's the Summer and what can that mean but that celebrities and politicians are virtue-signalling about what films they are watching at the cinema? This time it's non other than...Matt Hancock lip-syncing to a song from the new feminist smash-hit Barbie. In other news, Gary Lineker receives "standi...

Church of England rev with a difference Jamie Franklin sat down with author Laura Dodsworth to discuss themes arising from her new book Free Your Mind: The New World of Manipulation and How To Resist It . In a wide-ranging conversation, we spoke about brainwashing by the government and in education, the infantilisation of the UK population during COVID, how fear is used as a tool of control, how t...

Special guest the Rev'd Richard Fothergill joined revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Daniel French for the second half of this episode to discuss his recent experience of being debanked by the Yorkshire Building Society for his shockingly prejudicial comments about transgenderism. But our conversation was more wide-ranging, taking in Richard's experience in starting the internatio...

Revs with a difference Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin are back bringing up all the big stories. Today, talking about "faith leaders", including Rowan Williams, backing Sadiq Khan's ULEZ tax raid on car owners, the Church of England's questionable ethical policy around financial investment, particularly concerning the areas of pornography, guns and stem-cell research, and a rever...

Rev with a difference Jamie Franklin sits down to review the most pressing issues in church and society. This week: - Net Zero mania in the CofE as affirmation of environmental activism is added to confirmation ritual. - CofE spokesman defends teaching of critical race theory in CofE school classrooms. - Tory councillor King Lawal is cancelled for saying on Twitter that pride is a sin. - Pro-life...

Join CofE revs with a difference Jamie, Tom and Daniel for a discussion of all the recent news in Church and society. This week: - Was the Archbishop of York right to describe language about God being a father as "problematic" and "patriarchal"? - The Archbishop of Canterbury says that universities should have their funding cut if "trans" people are insulted. - Westmi...

Church of England revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Thomas Pelham sit down to catch up on the week's main talking points: - St Paul's Cathedral brands Winston Churchill a white supremacist. - English cricket is condemned as bastion of racism and discrimination. - An apparent coup in Russia fizzles out before it has begun. - The Titan submarine implodes in its bid to explore the r...

Church of England revs with a difference Daniel French, Jamie Franklin and Thomas Pelham sit down for a bumper episode catching up on a number of important stories from the past couple of weeks: - Greta Thunberg's failed apocalyptic prophecy quietly deleted on Twitter - The somewhat diabolical looking XR climate choir in Bristol Cathedral - Children castigated at a CofE school for saying thei...

Church of England vicars with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to give a spiritual perspective on the big events of the day. This week, after an absence on the show, Tom gives his own inimitable take on the coronation of King Charles III, we review a Daily Telegraph headline article that tells us that the lockdowns were an enormous, disastrous mistake (about three years too l...

Church of England vicars with a difference, Jamie Franklin and Daniel French, are back giving a spiritual perspective on the events of our age. This time: - Liberal CofE Twitter meltdown as Church implies legitimate evangelisation of other faiths. - Steve Chalke's ill-conceived Twitter defence of Phillip Schofield. - Satanism is back (again!): this time in the New Forest. - The best approache...

Church of England vicars with a difference, Jamie Franklin and Daniel French, are back giving a spiritual perspective on the events of our age. Daniel's been at the National Conservatism conference, which, according to the corporate media, is a far-right fascist convention. Was Daniel goose-stepping from seminar-to-seminar or was the reality a far more prosaic affair? We review some of the on...

In this epic conversation, Rev Jamie Franklin sits down with broadcaster and comedy legend Nick Dixon. Treating a range of subjects from comedy, the culture war, Christianity, the roles of men and women in society and the family, the significance of dreams and psychotherapy, Nick's best impressions including Peter Hitchens and Jordan Peterson, and so much more, the pair leave no stone unturne...

Church of England revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Daniel French sit down to talk about the week's top stories. This time: - What does the coronation tell us about modern Britain and the Church of England? Was it a grand affair or simply a reminder of the divided nature and lack of identity within our society? - David Starkey once again courts controversy by saying that Prime Ministe...

Church of England vicars Jamie Franklin, Thomas Pelham and Daniel French get together to talk about the big stories in culture and the church: - Is nature racist? We give a comprehensive answer to this perennial question as Black2Nature seek to "take back" the countryside. - It's been 55 years since the abortion act and over 10,000,000 abortions have been carried out in the United K...

Church of England vicars Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin get together to discuss this week's topic stories and talking points: - Should there be ducks in baptismal fonts? You decide. - Revenge of the Cathedral as Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News. - Diane Abbott seems to have the lost the plot in racism gaffe debacle. Is she the victim of a cancel culture that she has helped to flourish in thes...

Church of England revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Daniel French get together to talk about the big and often disturbing stories of the day from a spiritual perspective. This week: - Just Stop Oil protestor resembles religious fanatic as snooker championship is well and truly interrupted by orange paint. - Green activist takes his own life because he felt so depressed and hopeless about t...

Church of England rev Jamie Franklin sits down with author and public intellectual Mary Harrington to talk about Mary's new book  Feminism Against Progress.  Describing herself as a "reactionary feminist" Mary argues that the the direction feminism has taken in more recent years has benefitted nobody except a small group of elite women and that we need to recover the concept of inte...