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Britain has a transphobia problem. But is it really just people independently looking at the facts and deciding they don't like trans people?

No. No it's not. Obviously.

Join Ben, Adam, Jonny and official husband of the podcast, Seb, as they look at Amnesty International's report Like a Snowball, which maps the growth and coordination of the UK's so-called gender-critical movement. How have just four newspapers published around 17,000 articles about trans people, roughly nine a day, in the space of five years? Why are trans people themselves barely represented in the coverage? And how has an unholy alliance between media, politics, campaigning organisations and conservative Christian groups formed to turn trans people's lives into one of Britain's favourite political battlegrounds? 

We also talk about the policing of women's bodies, why we end up talking so much about having a piss, and why the term "gender critical" is BS.  

Plus: the worst pregnancy advice imaginable. Is your pregnant partner struggling to keep up with the ironing? Why not buy more shirts?!

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Ben and Adam take a look at the Kairos II document as well as some of its supporters and detractors in the run up to the Church of England voting to 'hear' it (not 'receive' it, because God forbid the CofE actually commits to anything).

They look at why a document that mostly just states established facts about genocide, apartheid, and settler colonialism has somehow managed to turn half of Christian England rabid, with appearances from repeat podcast villains Ian Paul, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, and the Board of Deputies, as well as a truly unhinged 'Christian Declaration against Kairos II' fronted by a Christian Concern alumnus nobody has heard of.

Read Kairos II here
Church Times article on the CofE 'hearing' Kairos II

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Ben and Adam are joined by Jonty, Laura and Malky of Beer Christianity and Shibboleth Magazine to talk about their most recent issue. Together they chat about the holiness of grief and what that means in terms of hope, justice, violence, nationalism, and a Christianity that seems to justify all of the above.

Along the way they get into cultural Christianity and why politicians are so keen to invoke a faith they clearly neither understand nor believe, the limits of trying to fix everything, and what people are (and, in some cases, are not) drinking.

Ben and Adam also recently appeared on Beer Christianity. You can find that episode here.

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Ben and Adam chat with eco-therapist and academic Rob Faure Walker about his new book Radical Jung: Emancipatory Politics and the Search for Meaning in the Ruins of Late Capitalism. Together they talk about gnosticism, the Gospel of Mary, and why Jordan Peterson gets Jung wrong.

Radical Jung
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Is hell real? What is it? Who goes there? That's right folks, it's getting hot in here, but don't take off all your clothes or you'll go to hell. Instead, join Ben and Adam as they chat with Llama Pack pastor, the Word in Black and Red host, and slander victim, Micah "the wise old llama enby" Belong about why hell might be closer than we think.

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Ben and Adam are joined by Matt Bernico and Dean Dettloff, hosts of The Magnificast and authors of the new book Enough is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism and Liberation Theology. They talk about how capitalism's obsession with endless growth is destroying people and planet, and ask what what resources Christian traditions like liberation theology may have for imagining something better.

Enough is Enough is available at all good bookshops and some bad ones. Matt and Dean encourage you to ask your local independent bookshop to get it in for you.

The Magnificast is available wherever podcasts exist.

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Ben and Adam chat with three-time Bread and Rosaries returnee, Damon Garcia, about his new book, You Don’t Need a Calling. They talk about purpose, vocation, and why 'calling' can feel like religious version of productivity culture.

Damon's book is available from all good booksellers and also some bad ones. Or just visit Damon's website: DamonGarcia.com

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Ben and Adam look at a few figures who did some cool stuff, but didn’t quite make it onto the Saint of the Week list, and debate whether this week's Saint of the Week, Jesse Jackson, should be struck off before he's even arrived! They also talk about the difference between liberal identity politics and leftist intersectionality.

Link to multi-faith letter

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This week Bread and Rosaries takes a trip to Scotland to chat with student minister and PhD candidate, William Gibson, about Red Clydeside: the strikes, rent protests, anti-war organising, and radical politics of Glasgow in the early twentieth century. We also look at the Church of Scotland’s uneasy relationship with working-class struggle, social reconstruction, and capitalism itself, including why so much of the church’s witness seemed to drift away from the politics of justice it once claimed to care about. Along the way, Adam reflects on the life and death of anarchist YPJ volunteer, Anna Campbell, and William introduces us to socialist and peace activist Helen Crawfurd for Saint of the Week.

More on Red Clydeside from the University of Strathclyde

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It’s Easter, so obviously Ben, Jonny and Adam start where every serious theological podcast should: Afro Man… in court… vibing to his own music while being unsuccessfully sued by police.

It’s broadly downhill from there, but the main theme, Ignacio Ellacuría's crucified people, is well worth hearing about.

David Tombs’ article is Jon Sobrino and ‘the Crucified People’

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