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This week, Adam and Ben dive into yet another baffling episode of the Evangelical Alliance’s Cross Section podcast, where the hosts calmly explain that Zack Polanski’s Green Party and Tommy Robinson’s merry band of fascist grifters are basically two sides of the same extremist coin. Yes, really.

The guys listen and respond as the sensible moderates of Cross Section:

• warn churches about the rise of “extremes”
• frame mild social democracy as radical and dangerous
• talk with straight faces about “the transing of kids”
• insist Jesus wouldn’t support state welfare
• suggest Tommy Robinson may be experiencing a Holy Spirit awakening
• argue that abortion rights, LGBT dignity, and bodily autonomy are signs of moral decline

But remember folks, they're the sensible moderates.

So join Ben and Adam as they complain, like only mediocre white men can, about theology, politics, civility rhetoric and historical amnesia. 

Cross Section episode

The Class Struggle and Christian Love by Herbert McCabe

Adam's article in S(h)ibboleth Magazine

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For our final Rosaries Rewind of the series, please enjoy this episode from 2022. We will be back with new episodes very soon!

Adam is joined not by Ben, who got called into work at the last minute, but by the Rev'd Robin Hanford.  Robin and Adam return the podcast to the topic of Remembrance and ask if a radical Remembrance is possible.

Find Robin Hanford here:
Twitter – @RobinHanford
Web – https://hanford.me.uk/

"The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" by Wilfred Owen is read by Lauren Minto-Simpson.

We also use audio from the Imperial War Museum's interviews with Dr. Reginald Saxton available at https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80008531 used under IWM non-commercial licence ©IWM 8735

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We're still on a break from recording so once again we've got an old episode for you. This time, it's a very early episode from 5 years ago looking at the celebration of Remembrance. Adam and I discuss our various problems with Remembrance and wearing poppies.

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Unfortunately due to various issues, we're taking some time out from recording. By way of apology, please enjoy this Halloween episode from the archive.

A spectre is haunting the podcast, no sadly not communism, but the next best thing: special guest Emma Holton.  Should Christians celebrate Halloween?  Are light parties cool?  Should Ben watch Star Trek?  All will be answered in the most spooktacular episode of Bread and Rosaries yet!

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There was just so much happening that Ben and Adam had to do what they do best: Mindgrapes. This episode ranges from the immediate horror of the Manchester synagogue attack, to how the event has been politicised. They also talk about how much of a change the appointment of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury actually represents. Finally, Blue Labour 2: Electric Boogaloo?

Shibboleth magazine 

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Tommy’s back, bringing his biggest crowd yet. They march under crosses and shout about Jesus, but are they really Christian? And what role does the Church play in all this? Let’s see if we can find out!

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This week Ben and Adam get revolutionary with Martin Empson, author of The Time of the Harvest Has Come. Together, they explore the German Peasants’ War of 1524–25, the largest social revolt in pre-French Revolution Europe. Along the way, they discuss one of its lesser-known leaders and Saint of the Week, Michael Gaismair.

COMPETITION: Email [email protected] and tell us how you've been organising for a chance to win a copy of Martin's book!

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So... Adam watched an episode of the Newsagents podcast and got sufficiently pissed off to rant about it into a microphone so now you all have to suffer! Along the way Ben offered a controversial Saint of the Week and Adam shared news from CAGE International about political prisoner T Hoxha.

Take Action for T Hoxha:

✉️ Email the prison today and demand T is transferred to a hospital for independent health monitoring. [email protected]
📞 Call the prison: 01733 217500 and insist she is taken to a hospital, not the prison medical wing.

CAGE International page on T Hoxha

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Because the audience clearly can't get enough democracy content, Ben, Adam, and Jonny reunite to pick up the conversation where they left off in Episode 62. This time they ask the question 'how democratic are our churches really?' Along the way, they detour into some sci-fi beef and discuss anti-apartheid activist, Steve Biko, for Saint of the Week.

Clip from Cry Freedom (1987) © Universal/Marble Arch, used under UK fair dealing for criticism/review.

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This week, Ben, Adam, and Jonny take a look at the confected moral outrage machine. Why are we allowed to be angry at Bob Vylan, but not a government aiding and abetting a genocide?  How does the state uses outrage to keep people quiet? Why do Christians so often fall for it? 

Plus: the antifascist joy of queer wrestling in nacho cheese, bookshop-based moral collapse, and a French pastor and his deeply unimpressed wife, who led a village to save thousands of Jewish refugees during the Nazi occupation.

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