Send us a text Ben and Adam fight back from technological adversity to talk about the National Sociali... er... I mean National Conservatism conference. Content warning - we talk about the murder of Jordan Neely, a black homeless person, from about 29 minutes in until about 37 minutes in. The articles Ben talks about are: https://itself.blog/2023/05/15/who-is-my-neighbor/ and https://defector.com/jordan-neely-just-needed-some-help Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook....
May 23, 2023•2 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text The gang attempt to be positive. The results are mixed. Welcome to the left! Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our theme song is "Good Morning" by Amine Maxwell, available here . It is licensed under CC BY 3.0, available here . Our outro is "Futuristic Beat" by RoyaltyFreeMusic, available here . We also use "Jazzy Abstract Bea...
May 02, 2023•57 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text The gang are joined by writer, researcher, education adviser and Alexander technique teacher Dr. Jenny Fox Eades to talk about motherhood, autism, wellbeing in education, and much more! You can find her at her website jennyfoxeades.com . Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our theme song is "Good Morning" by Amine Maxwell, available here . It ...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Returning guest Jonny Bell joins us* to talk about his first (almost) year as a Methodist presbyter. He talks about working as a queer communist minister, listening and finding common ground with those you disagree with. He also nerds out about dead philosophers. *By 'us' we mean Adam as Lu and Ben were unfortunately not about for this one. Presumably they were conspiring to take over the show. Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAnd...
Mar 30, 2023•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text We are joined by returning guest Chris Howson, who guides us through some reflection on liberation theology, critical pedagogy, and corporate worship. He also tells us about his extremely eventful night of 3 parties, his love of graveyards, and what he is banned from doing on Halloween. Sorry if Ben's audio goes a bit wonky, we had some technical issues! Article on Hillsong is here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/10/hillsong-under-investigation-by-charities-regula...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Come and join us as we toast future SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland, Kate Forbes' progressive new vision for Scotland - Christian fundamentalism! Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our theme song is "Good Morning" by Amine Maxwell, available here . We also use "Scotland the Brave" by Shake That Little Foot, available ...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text The Church of England is up to its usual shenanigans, so we are too. We talk through the latest goings on with the battle for same-sex marriage in the Church of England, and we promise it's the last time we will do so for a while! There's also all the usual fun of Mind Grapes, Saint of the Week and wild detours off topic. Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam...
Feb 14, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text It's late, it's cobbled together from multiple sessions and for a bit of it you can hear Ben's washing machine on a spin cycle, but the hotly anticipated Episode 28 is here! We chat through things that have been happening, most of them bad. Ben and Adam make bad attempts at time machine noises. There is a discussion of what we want to happen to our bodies when we die, and a new character "Dr Bonesy" is added to podcast canon. We mention the wonderful Geez ...
Feb 09, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text The crew try to work out just how sinful alcohol is by thinking about the Church's history with it as well as their own! Find us here: Website - breadandrosaries.com Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our theme song is "Good Morning" by Amine Maxwell, available here . Our outro is "Enemy (Alcohol)" by Mess, available here . We also use "Alcohol" by Les Baudouins...
Jan 17, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Luca von Badass joins Ben and Adam once again, but this time with full cohost status! The gang talk about strikes, unions and the birth of the sweet baby Jesus. This Christmas special is not late because there are 12 days of Christmas. Fight me. Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our theme song is "Good Morning" by Amine Maxwell, available here . Our outro is "Christm...
Dec 31, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Ben and Adam are joined by Luca von Badass (definitely their real name) to talk about inclusion, bishops supporting equal marriage, and who should be kicked out! Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our theme song is "Good Morning" by Amine Maxwell, available here: https://soundcloud.com/aminemaxwell/good-morning It is licensed under CC BY 3.0 - http://creativecommons.org/li...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text 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 us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Find Robin Hanford here: Twitter – @RobinHanford Web – https://hanford.me.uk/ "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" by...
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text 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! Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our theme song is good morning by Amine Maxwell, available here: ht...
Oct 25, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Last episode was far too positive, so we balance it out by getting real depressing this week. We talk through a variety of things, partially because we are interested in them but mostly because Ben didn't read the article he was meant to. We offer half-baked thoughts on the recent Italian and Brazillian elections, and compare Theology Slam to It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Content Warning - Police violence, murder, racism. From around 28 minutes, for roughly 10 minut...
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text In response to a listener's question, we try to work out why we still bother with faith and the church, despite everything we moan about on every podcast. We have tried out very best to be positive this week, but theres still plenty of complaining and being annoyed, because we are grumpy leftists. Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our theme song is good morning by Amine Maxwel...
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text We're back after our month off. We recorded this before the Queen died, so we don't talk about that all, which may be a nice break for some of you. We also had some audio issues with the second half of the podcast, so we had to use a much worse audio source than usual, so the quality of the sound is much worse than usual. Sorry! This week we welcome Liz Truss as our leader, and discuss the role Christian identity plays in UK politics. We also both are heretics. Find us h...
Sep 13, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text In our final episode before we take a summer break for Ben to move house, we chat to Damon Garcia about his excellent book The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus. You can buy the book here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-god-who-riots/damon-garcia/9781506480374 You can find more of Damon here: https://damongarcia.com Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our theme song ...
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text We've missed the last episode due to the horrors of Ofsted and Covid, our two least favourite acronyms, but we're back to talk about strikes. With 2022 shaping up to be a year of industrial action, it seemed a good time to think about strikes. We also chat a little bit about the Tory Leadership Election, Roe v Wade, and why we're the Velvet Underground of podcasts (Ben said Ramones, but he meant Velvet Underground, and feels pretty embarassed about the mistake.) Fin...
Jul 19, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text We like to think we're fashionably late to the COVID-19 party, but it may just be that we're both perpetually late people. This episode is also two days late so I guess the evidence is stacking up... In this episode Ben and Adam talk about COVID conspiracy theories, the Church's response to the pandemic and links between climate change and epidemics. They may also slip into heresy... again... Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Ro...
Jun 22, 2022•58 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text In celebration of HM the Queen's platinum jubilee, Bread and Rosaries is proud to present this super-mega bumper edition of the show! In this episode we discuss the wonders of monarchy, including segments on recent comments from the Archbishop of Canterbury about HRH the Duke of York and his benevolent efforts to combat sex trafficking. Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our ou...
Jun 07, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Jonny, a Methodist minister in training and a married gay man, joins us to talk about the decision of the Methodist Church to allow same-sex marriages in their churches. Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email – breadandrosaries@gmail.com Adam – @CommieXian Our outro music is Dancing Queen by Abba Our theme song is good morning by Amine Maxwell, available here: https://soundcloud.com/aminemaxwell/good-morning It is licensed under CC B...
May 24, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text We're back!! After a long break, we have returned with a slightly looser episode looking at atonement theories, whether we really have to pray for our leaders, and chatting about a Rowan Williams article. We go on a lot of tangents in this one, including Adam's bookcase of shame and Ben proving that he did learn something at school after all. The Williams article we talk about is here. Find us here: Facebook – facebook.com/BreadAndRosaries Twitter – @Bread_Rosaries Email...
May 03, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Official wife of the podcast, Sarah Molyneux-Hetherington, joins us for her second episode, this time helping us think through what purity culture looks like in the UK. If that doesn't do it for you, listen anyway as she and Ben finally spill the beans about what happened on their wedding night! There's a couple of slight changes in audio where we've had to stitch things together, including a segment recorded after Sarah went to bed which is why she doesn't tal...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Content note: between 16 minutes 40 seconds and 21 minutes, we discuss child sexual abuse fairly extensively. Please do skip past this segment if that's what's right for you. Our short break ended up taking 6 months, but we are back! Recorded a couple of months ago, in this episode we talk about Hillsong church, debate who was the biggest Hillsong fanboy and discuss what drugs Jesus would distribute. We discuss a documentary that can be watched on BBC iPlayer here: https...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Because the way our episodes are numbered aren't already stupid enough, we've added letters into the mix. We fired off some hot takes that got cut from last week's episode in order to keep the run time below an hour, but we didn't want to deprive the world of our nonsense, so here's a bonus episode. This is a very rough and ready cut, but we thought we'd throw it out with very minimal editing. We chat about some big names - NT Wright, Keir Starmer, Eu...
Apr 13, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text It's been a while but we're back with just the two of us, and we take the chance to dive straight into some heavy stuff! We talk about the wave of protests that have been happening in the UK, and the police response to them. We try and think about the way in which the Church works to legitimise police violence, and then try to find some resources from within Christianity to oppose this and support protest. You can find us, and a bunch of other cool stuff relating to left...
Apr 06, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text We are joined by the writer, artist and activist Harriet Williamson to talk about CS Lewis and his books the Chronicles of Narnia. We also discuss post-lockdown anxiety, the real reason women shouldn't be in battles, and our groundbreaking theory that Aslan represents Jesus. Content note: Between roughly 12 minutes and 22 minutes of the podcast, we discuss mental health issues and the supposed exorcism of demons that cause mental health issues. We also touch on child sex abus...
Mar 09, 2021•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text We are joined by Rev. Chris Howson to celebration the tenth anniversary of the release of his book A Just Church: 21st Century Liberation Theology in Action. Chris reflects on how some of the ideas and themes of the book have played out over the last ten years, and what role liberation theology can continue to play in UK Christianity. We also talk about Covid deaths in vulnerable communities, the role of the monarchy, and Adam's face. Chris's book can be bought here: htt...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text This is the second half of our fascinating conversation with Anthony Reddie, one of the foremost proponents of Black Liberation Theology in the UK. We released the first part of this conversation last week, and it is also well worth listening to. In this episode, we discuss the relationship between American and British Black Liberation Theologies, being a Christian in leftist circles, and jazz music. Anthony also offers his reflections on Black Lives Matter in the UK, and the youn...
Feb 16, 2021•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text This is part one of a conversation we were extremely lucky to have with Anthony Reddie, one of the foremost proponents of Black Liberation Theology in the UK. Anthony introduces us to some of the ideas of British Black Liberation Theology, and how it enabled him to remain Christian in the face of white supremacy. We also send our love and solidarity to the Stansted 15 and migrants currently detained in Napier Barracks. Anthony tweets at @AnthonyGReddie and his website is www.antho...
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