Bread and Rosaries

Send us Fan Mail

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!

Support the show

Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost money to produce so if you wish to support the show on Patreon, we'd love you forever!

Music credits at this link

Send us Fan Mail

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 

Support the show

Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost money to produce so if you wish to support the show on Patreon, we'd love you forever!

Music credits at this link

Send us Fan Mail

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!

Support the show

Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost money to produce so if you wish to support the show on Patreon, we'd love you forever!

Music credits at this link

Send us Fan Mail

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!

Buy Martin's book 

Martin's blog

Support the show

Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost money to produce so if you wish to support the show on Patreon, we'd love you forever!

Music credits at this link

Send us Fan Mail

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

Support the show

Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost money to produce so if you wish to support the show on Patreon, we'd love you forever!

Music credits at this link

Send us Fan Mail

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.

Support the show

Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost money to produce so if you wish to support the show on Patreon, we'd love you forever!

Music credits at this link

Send us Fan Mail

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.

Support the show

Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost money to produce so if you wish to support the show on Patreon, we'd love you forever!

Music credits at this link

Send us Fan Mail

Well almost illegal anyway... if the government gets its way, pretty soon this kind of content will get us up to 14 years in prison, so enjoy (endure?) it while you can!

CLARIFICATION: In this episode, Adam says he thinks Mark Rowley was formerly commissioner of the Northern Irish Police Service. This is not the case. Bread and Rosaries wishes to apologise for associating such a name with the good people of Ireland. It's bad enough the PSNI exists, without Mark Rowley getting involved.

Donate to Palestine Action's legal defence fund

Write to your MP (form letter)

Palestine Action

Amnesty International on proscription of Palestine Action

If red paint is terrorism, what isn’t? (Guardian editorial)

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism (Sally Rooney article)

Met Police Statement on Palestine Action protest

Videos and images courtesy of Palestine Action 

Support the show

Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost money to produce so if you wish to support the show on Patreon, we'd love you forever!

Music credits at this link

Send us Fan Mail

Ben and Adam sit down with poet and Culture Matters editor Fran Lock to talk about her new poetry collection Love Is Stronger Than Death: Mary Magdalene and the Insurrection of Jesus. They talk Christian communism, doubt as an ethical practice, Mary Magdalene’s overlooked radical role, and what Christ and Huey Newton have in common. Plus: football and Palestine solidarity; Saint of the Week Thomas Hagerty.

Buy Fran's book here!

Support the show

Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost money to produce so if you wish to support the show on Patreon, we'd love you forever!

Music credits at this link

Send us Fan Mail

Ben and Adam coordinate T-shirts, then draw from Adam's article in Shibboleth magazine to coordinate their critiques of how church and crown legitimise each other. They also react to the horror of an American Pope and present perhaps their most famous Saint of the Week yet!

Support the show

Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost money to produce so if you wish to support the show on Patreon, we'd love you forever!

Music credits at this link