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!
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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.
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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.

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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!
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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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Church of England revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Thomas Pelham sit down to respond to the biggest story of the week, the progression in Parliament of the Assisted Suicide Bill, leading the UK a significant step closer towards the legalisation of state-sponsored euthanasia.
They are also joined by author and journalist Rod Dreher to talk about Rod's new book Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age. Rod talks to them about recovering a sense of the presence of God and visceral meaning in the context of disenchanted Modernity, how to promote Christian orthodoxy to a generation more interested in the occult than Christ, how Christian enchantment differs from paganism, how attention changes the spiritual life, and, of course, UFOs!
All that and much much more in this very special episode!
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In this special episode, the Rev'd Dr Jamie Franklin responds to a recent lecture by the novelist and writer Paul Kingsnorth on Christian Civilisation. Franklin says that, although there are some important and powerful points in Kingnorth's lecture, he nevertheless disagrees with him on a number of significant points.
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Nearly 1,000 clergy from the Church of England have signed an open letter opposing the legalisation of assisted suicide in the UK. Jamie Franklin sits down with its author and principal signatory Fr Richard Bastable to talk about the moral objections to assisted suicide, concerns about its acceptance, and hopeful alternative paths that our society might take.
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Church of England revs with a difference Daniel French and Jamie Franklin sit down for a special livestream catch-up, featuring live coverage of the London farmer's protest, and further reaction to the Justin Welby resignation and the Trump election victory. Plus your comments, questions, and the email of the week. Enjoy!
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Church of England revs with a difference Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin sat down for a special livestream reaction episode to the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby over his personal catastrophic safeguarding failures. We review the events leading up to the resignation, assess Justin's legacy, and look forward to who might sit on the archepiscopal throne and what might be coming next for the Church of England.
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