Second Thought for the day

Catastrophic attempt to string together meaning from Manfredi. She opens with seemingly dishonest assessment of John Lennon's Imagine. Manages to troll Philip Larkin in same sentence. Gets worse.

After quite a lot of rubbish about what in the world we should fear, John Studzinski makes outlandish claims on channeling his soul as an effective means to handle fear.

Greenberg delivers a harmless broadcast but reinforces a hypercorrection from an age of pedantic linguistic elitism. Oh, and a small case of exaggeration.

Listen to Methodist preacher, Jennifer Smith, repeatedly demonstrate a failure to understand mercy. Which is forgivable, given what her brethren did to the poor word.

Martin reveals his indifference to his audience by making a very silly claim about the origins of surnames that even a moment's self doubt would have prevented.

This guy should run a course on platitudinous guff. He's a world-class waste of airtime. Listen to him first make some pretty grave errors on the conflation of aesthetic beauty with some generic take on human goodness. Then listen to him get even more useless on the subject of waste. Which is surprisingly apt..

Injecting truth into Pepinster's account: why a pope wanted May Day for himself, rather than let communists have all the fun.

West London vicar broadcasts hapless rumination on power cuts, the worship of technology, 'older gods' and 'human pleasures'. It's quite the cluster.

Chine McDonald dabbles in subjects about which she clearly knows little (reason and faith in the Christian church) before regurgitating suspicious survey data as fact without a moment's hesitation.

Notes on Thoughts for the Day from 21-28 April. Tilby doesn't disappoint: revealing just how her English and Anglican exceptionalism have impaired her ability to think. Jennifer Smith joins in with incoherent statements about faith moments and a blatant example of belief presented as fact. Join us in the week that saw the end of Easter and the end of a Pope.

A real car crash broadcast from Tilby. So bad you should definitely listen to the original on BBC Sounds. It's a masterclass in why faith should never outweigh curiosity.

Not a single factual error. That's quite an achievement in this company!

Angela Tilby demonstrates that she can plumb depths that you'd not initially appreciated. Welcome to the straw man episode in which Tilby invents history. In a throwback episode we fact-check our review of Angela's broadcast of 11 April 25.

The Easter effect claims another victim among the Christian TftD presenting community.

Singh does well but failed to distinguish Sikhism from not-Islam and we're likely a tad unfair to saddle him with the inaugural use of the Humphrys Kumbaya Flagrancy

There is no coherence here. Just cloaks. Donkeys, misogyny and cloaks.

Bishop of Manchester provides wholly one-sided account of the development of the ethics of war. There's good stuff in there too, but that's really not what stands out.

Chief Rabbi On truth, Passover and holding holocaust deniers to account .

Former Anglican priest rambles about marriage. Fails to make point. Makes many logical errors. Doesn’t seem to like Camilla. Possibly doesn’t like Archbishop. Notes, the podcast script and everything about the original BBC show can be found here.

London vicar opens with needless falsehood. Fails much to improve thereafter.

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