Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs

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 of the family to the state and destroy the basis for home education, a new study showing the devastating effect of lockdowns on toddlers, monkeypox and what that's all about, what football does when a black Muslim won't wear a rainbow flag on his shirt, Ricky Gervais' controversial comments about transgender people, Calvin Robinson's shunning by the CofE who he failed to recognise as the KKK at prayer, and much more! We attempt to give a spiritual perspective on all of this on this week's Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs!
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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 the apocalypse constantly predicted in climate change narrative.
- The government plans to use your mobile phone to frighten and control you: are you ready for them to interrupt St George's Day by issuing a test alert?
- Junior doctors walk out on their patients demanding a 35% pay increase, whilst co-chair of the BMA goes on holiday.
That, some thoughts about the Archbishop of Canterbury's Easter sermon in which he couldn't help but mention the Church's £100 million woke reparation fund for historic ties to slavery, your questions answered in Question the Rev and much much more.
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Just Stop Oil activists interrupts snooker
Green Activist Suicide
Government Emergency Alert (and how to turn it off)
NHS Strike:
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/04/06/do-doctors-care-that-their-strikes-are-killing-patients/?highlight=doctor%20strike
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/04/16/to-fix-the-nhs-start-asking-the-right-questions-stop-fudging-the-labour-market/?highlight=doctor%20strike
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11968703/Shamed-junior-doctors-leader-apologises-undermining-strike-going-holiday.html
Archbishop of Canterbury Easter Message
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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 activists say they were banned from worshipping at York Minster.
- Controversy as friends of Mike Pilavachi tweet in his support.
That and a couple of Question the Revs with questions about Holy Communion and baptism. Our Scripture this week is Romans 8:9-22.
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Net Zero mania of CofE: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/confirmed-the-c-of-es-net-zero-mania/
CofE defends teaching of critical race theory in classrooms: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/16/church-of-england-defend-teaching-controversial-race-theory/
Christian councillor suspended for saying pride is a sin: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/16/christian-councillor-king-lawal-pride-sin-conservative/
Pro-Life activists banned from York Minster: https://www.gbnews.com/news/york-minster-ban-pro-life-activists-prayer
Backlash over support for Pilavachi: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/17/backlash-church-leaders-praise-soul-survivor-mike-pilavachi/ Notices:
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This is the audio of a recent conversation that I, Rev. Jamie, had with Carbon Mike. Carbon Mike is a software engineer, conservative, social critic and the host of the Dangerous Space podcast. He describes himself as a "pilgrim" when it comes to faith, meaning that he's not quite there but he is very sympathetic. He also has a very cool voice. We spoke at length about many subjects including the faith, Covid-19, government opposition to Christianity and conservatism, social media and technology, and lots of other things. This was recorded sometime earlier in November, so please bear that in mind.
I hope you enjoy listening to it!
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For this special episode, the Revd Jamie Franklin is joined by the Revd Professor Michael Northcott, Emeritus Professor of Ethics at the University of Edinburgh and now Visiting Professor at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Michael was also ordained in the Church of England in 1982 and worked in full-time priestly ministry for ten years. As well as specialising in ethics, Michael is also well-known for his writings on environmental issue and their relationship to theology.
In this very broad-reaching conversation, Michael gives his take on the ethically dubious nature of the response to Covid-19, including the usage of the drug Midazolam in UK care homes, the breakdown of the academy and the Church due to the incursion of the ideology of Human Resources, true environmentalism and how COP26 and the climate catastrophisers are exploiting this situation in order to bring about a technocratic, globalist government, and why we should all spend a lot more time outdoors.
This is an explosive interview and is guaranteed to divide opinion!
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