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Daniel French

J.A. Franklin

T.J. Pelham

Are you wondering how a Christian should respond to current events? What are we to think about a world that appears to be going absolutely mad? How are we to discern the signs of the times? In this podcast, featuring The Reverend Thomas Pelham, The Reverend Daniel French, The Reverend Doctor J.A. Franklin and the occasional guest, we attempt to give some answers. Email us at irreverendpod@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter @irreverendpod or on Telegram at https://t.me/irreverendpod. We also have a youtube channel which can be found by searching Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! If you would like to support the show, which can be done from £1.50 plus VAT per month, you can join our Patreon community. Please go to www.patreon.com/irreverend

Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs

Revs with a difference Tom Pelham, Daniel French, and Jamie Franklin sit down to review four years of Irreverend. This special livestream episode includes reflections upon the past four years of the podcast; your questions on Genesis 6 and fallen angels, the theology of Jordan Peterson and more; the BOVAER cow flatulence controversy; the Archbishop bows out in characteristically awful style; and our predictions for the where we'll be in a hundred episodes time.
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Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.com
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The Balance of Gray
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200 Episodes Later

Revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the biggest issues of the day in church and state. This time:

 • The Marc Geuhi rainbow armband controversy!
 • Our thoughts on Only Fans actress Lily Philips having relations with a hundred men in a single day.
 • And Church of England dismay at Liverpool Cathedral hosts drug-fuelled football club rave, further calls for the resignation of senior bishops over historic safeguarding failures, and the Bishop of Newcastle asking for a "pause of evangelism".

That, our favourite Christmas hymns and much more as always!
Please Support!
You make Irreverend possible. Please support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend). 
Subscribe to Jamie's Blog here: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
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Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/IrreverendPod
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Join our Irreverend Telegram group: https://t.me/irreverendpod
Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!
Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.com
Jamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
The Balance of Gray
God, doubt, and proof walk into a podcast... it goes better than you’d expect!

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The Church of England Christmas Rave-Up

Church of England revs with a difference Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the biggest storiesin church and state. This time:

 • The UK rape gang scandal goes international as Elon Musk calls Keir Starmer an apologist for genocide and says that Jess Phillips should be in prison.
 • The Children's Welfare and Schools Bill looks set to enforce a woke curriculum across all schools and take the right to home educate away from parents.
 • Justin Welby steps down and Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell steps up to take charge of the CofE. His first move to combat managerial failure? More managerialism of course!
 • And we conduct our yearly review of the King's Christmas Speech: Politics? Theology? Controversy? There's a little bit of everything.

All that and a bit more as ever. Enjoy!
Please Support the Podcast!
You make Irreverend possible. Please support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend). 
Subscribe to Jamie's Blog here: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
Links:
The Children's Welfare and Schools Bill - https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/the-childrens-wellbeing-bill-what-parents-need-to-know/
Notices:
Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/IrreverendPod
Find me a church: https://irreverendpod.com/church-finder/
Join our Irreverend Telegram group: https://t.me/irreverendpod
Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!
Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.com
Jamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
The Balance of Gray
God, doubt, and proof walk into a podcast... it goes better than you’d expect!

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

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Britain's Rape Gang Problem: Sin, Silence, and the State

Church of England vicar Jamie Franklin sits down with Heritage Party founder and leader David Kurten who speaks about why he is so concerned about the Labour Government's Schools and Wellbeing Bill which will fundamentally change the nature of the relationship between children and the state. Also discussed:
- The Climate and Nature Bill which would amount to a land grab of 30% of the countryside in the name of environmentalism and climate activism.
- Agenda 2030 and the globalists' plan to destroy agriculture, cultivate lab-based meat, and end private transport.
- Why only a specifically Christian political movement can change any of this.
- And more besides.
Join the Heritage Party today! https://membermojo.co.uk/heritageparty/
Support the Irreverend Podcast! https://www.patreon.com/c/irreverend
Pre-Order Jamie Franklin's new book The Great Return: Why Only a Restoration of Christianity Can Save Western Civilisation! 
The Balance of Gray
God, doubt, and proof walk into a podcast... it goes better than you’d expect!

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

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The Neo-Marxists are Coming for the Kids! with David Kurten

Church of England revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Daniel French sit down to talk about the biggest stories in church and state this week:

 • Senior Labour figures call for U-turn on refusal to hold national enquiry into rape gangs. 
 • The UK economy collapses while Rachel Reeves leaves for China. And Andrew Lawrence's ten step to fix the problem.
 • Meta to end third-party fact-checking.
 • Partial Church of England exodus to Bluesky.
 • And the political fallout over the Californian wildfires. Is climate change or DEI to blame?

All that and a bit more as ever. Enjoy!
Please Support the Podcast!
You make Irreverend possible. Please support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend). 
Subscribe to Jamie's Blog here: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
Links:
Sam Norton, Why I’m staying on Twitter: https://samcharlesnorton.substack.com/p/why-im-staying-on-twitter-x
Notices:
Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/IrreverendPod
Find me a church: https://irreverendpod.com/church-finder/
Join our Irreverend Telegram group: https://t.me/irreverendpod
Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!
Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.com
Jamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
The Balance of Gray
God, doubt, and proof walk into a podcast... it goes better than you’d expect!

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Support the show

Rachel Reeves' Great Escape

Church of England revs with a difference Tom Pelham, Daniel French, and Jamie Franklin sit down to talk about the big stories in church and state. This time involving many stories of bishops and church leaders who are committed to the progressive socialist ideologies that characterise left-wing politics. Stories involve:

 • Woke Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budd attacks Trump at inauguration service.
 • "Faith leaders" including the Bishop of Norwich say back the Climate and Nature Bill (surprise, surprise!)
 • Leader of Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC) goes full progressive over Islamic rape gangs.

All that and much much more as ever!
Daniel French Substack: https://undergroundchurch.substack.com/
Pre-order Jamie's new book The Great Return: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Return-Jamie-Franklin/dp/1399814923/ref=sr_1_1?crid=26ZEDDYI95KUX&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SF5nfpwg5H21EM0mKGjP_w.r6DrEYNV2mfKNYfnjr0pk6IBeRZaPG2W2YBLEGHcVhU&dib_tag=se&keywords=jamie+franklin+the+great+return&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1737557957&sprefix=jamie+franklin%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-1
Please Support the Podcast!
You make Irreverend possible. Please support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend). 
Subscribe to Jamie's Blog here: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
Notices:
Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/IrreverendPod
Find me a church: https://irreverendpod.com/church-finder/
Join our Irreverend Telegram group: https://t.me/irreverendpod
Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!
Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.com
Jamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
The Balance of Gray
God, doubt, and proof walk into a podcast... it goes better than you’d expect!

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Support the show

Bishops in the Bubble

Church of England vicars with a difference Jamie Franklin, Daniel French, and Thomas Pelham sit down to talk about the biggest weekly stories in church and state. This time we discuss calls for a renewed debate on the death penalty for the most serious crimes in the wake of the Axel Rudakubana sentencing. And we spoke about the freshest crisis in the Church of England in the form of allegations of sexual assaults made against the Bishop of Liverpool and even of a cover-up by the Archbishop of York.
All that and a few other bits and pieces as ever. Enjoy!
Daniel French Substack: https://undergroundchurch.substack.com/
Jamie Franklin Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
Irreverend Substack: https://irreverendpod.substack.com
Pre-order Jamie's new book The Great Return: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Return-Jamie-Franklin/dp/1399814923/ref=sr_1_1?crid=26ZEDDYI95KUX&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SF5nfpwg5H21EM0mKGjP_w.r6DrEYNV2mfKNYfnjr0pk6IBeRZaPG2W2YBLEGHcVhU&dib_tag=se&keywords=jamie+franklin+the+great+return&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1737557957&sprefix=jamie+franklin%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-1
Please Support the Podcast!
You make Irreverend possible. Please support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend). 
Subscribe to Jamie's Blog here: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
Notices:
Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/IrreverendPod
Find me a church: https://irreverendpod.com/church-finder/
Join our Irreverend Telegram group: https://t.me/irreverendpod
Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!
Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.com
Jamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
The Balance of Gray
God, doubt, and proof walk into a podcast... it goes better than you’d expect!

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Support the show

Time to bring back the death penalty?

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:

 • JD Vance in "ordo amoris" Twitter spat with Rory Stewart.
 • The Bishop of Liverpool resigns over sexual abuse allegations whilst controversy around Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell persists. 
 • £2.6 billion of Church Commissioner money earmarked for clergy stipend increase, but will it make any difference to anything?

All that plus a special Question the Rev on a CofE TikTok comms video, more debate on the death penalty and why not just use modern language versions of Scripture all the time?

Daniel French Substack: https://undergroundchurch.substack.com/
Jamie Franklin Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
Irreverend Substack: https://irreverendpod.substack.com
Pre-order Jamie's new book The Great Return: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Return-Jamie-Franklin/dp/1399814923/ref=sr_1_1?crid=26ZEDDYI95KUX&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SF5nfpwg5H21EM0mKGjP_w.r6DrEYNV2mfKNYfnjr0pk6IBeRZaPG2W2YBLEGHcVhU&dib_tag=se&keywords=jamie+franklin+the+great+return&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1737557957&sprefix=jamie+franklin%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-1

Please Support the Podcast!
You make Irreverend possible. Please support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend). 
Subscribe to Jamie's Blog here: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
Notices:
Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/IrreverendPod
Find me a church: https://irreverendpod.com/church-finder/
Join our Irreverend Telegram group: https://t.me/irreverendpod
Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!
Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.com
Jamie's Good Things Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
The Balance of Gray
God, doubt, and proof walk into a podcast... it goes better than you’d expect!

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Support the show

The Burning of Rory Stewart

Church of England revs with a difference Daniel French and Jamie French are joined by former Old Bailey judge and lay minister Charles Wide KC for a deep dive into the shady world of Project Spire: the Church Commissioners' project to give £100 million rising to £1 billion of Church of England money to communities and people ostensibly disadvantaged by the historic legacy of slavery. 

But has this project been carried out ethically and with proper legal and intellectual safeguards and are its representatives being fully transparent about what is really going on behind the scenes? Do the Church Commissioners even have the legal right to give away money that was never intended for such usage?

All that plus our take on who the next Archbishop of Canterbury should be and all the usual banter.

Please enjoy and thanks for listening to the podcast!

Livestream for Evensong at Pusey House, Weds. 19th Feb 5.30pm, with Rev Jamie Sermon

Articles Mentioned:

The Case Against Reparations - Charles Wide KC, The Rev’d Professor Lord Biggar and Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

Project Spire: A Dubious Waste of the Church of England's Money - Charles Wide, KC

The Church of England's Historic Links to the Transatlantic Slave Trade - Lawrence Goldman and Robert Tombs

Daniel French Substack: https://undergroundchurch.substack.com/
Jamie Franklin Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
Irreverend Substack: https://irreverendpod.substack.com
Pre-order Jamie's new book The Great Return

Please Support the Podcast!
You make Irreverend possible. Please support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend). 
Subscribe to Jamie's Blog here: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
Notices:
Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/IrreverendPod
Find me a church: 
The Balance of Gray
God, doubt, and proof walk into a podcast... it goes better than you’d expect!

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Support the show

The Shady World of Church of England Slavery Reparations

Church of England rev with a difference Jamie Franklin pulls no punches as he analyses JD Vance's excoriating speech to a group of European leaders at a security summit in Munich. In a reversal of expectation, Vance claimed that the greatest threat to European security was not Russia but was the internal degradation of European society itself. He also took aim at the attack on free speech in the form of the monitoring of ostensible thought crime in Britain. Rev Jamie considers his assertions and contrasts them with the rebuttal given by Labour Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds who also claims to be speaking from a Christian perspective.
After that viewers can partake of a full-length interview Rev Jamie gave for the Thinking Slow podcast on the subject of his new book The Great Return: Why Only a Restoration of Christianity Can Save Western Civilisation.

Please Support the Podcast!
You make Irreverend possible. Please support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/irreverend) or Buy Me a Coffee (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend). 

Notices:
Thinking Slow at the Thinking Coalition: https://thinkingcoalition.org
Pre-order Jamie's new book The Great Return
Daniel French Substack: https://undergroundchurch.substack.com/
Jamie Franklin Substack: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com
Irreverend Substack: https://irreverendpod.substack.com
Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/IrreverendPod
Find me a church: https://irreverendpod.com/church-finder/
Join our Irreverend Telegram group: https://t.me/irreverendpod
Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com!
Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.com
The Balance of Gray
God, doubt, and proof walk into a podcast... it goes better than you’d expect!

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Support the show

JD Vance Slams Euro-Fascists

Dear listener. Just a regular week with the home team Tom and Jamie. We review the latest pronouncements by the government to the effects that lockdown is going to last a very long time. We review the status of and growing hostility toward so-called lockdown sceptics. Jamie reveals why he prefers to use the term "anti-lockdown". We review the latest Lord Sumption controversy as he is accused of saying that some lives are intrinsically more valuable than others. And we look at the state of play in the church by reviewing Fr Jonathan Beswick's article on keeping churches open before turning to the latest cathedral craze: shutting down Holy Communion and administering COVID vaccination instead.

Stay tuned to the very, very end as we tuck in a little bit of amusing listener feedback which we left out in the main pod.

As always please keep in touch with suggestions, comments, criticisms etc at irreverendpod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter @irreverendpod!

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J.A. Franklin, T.J. Pelham, Daniel French

Lockdown Forever; The State of "Lockdown Scepticism"; Lord Sumption Character Assassination; Keeping Churches Open; Cathedral Closed Yet Used as Vaccination Centres

Lockdown Forever; The State of "Lockdown Scepticism"; Lord Sumption Character Assassination; Keeping Churches Open; Cathedral Closed Yet Used as Vaccination Centres

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