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Daniel French

J.A. Franklin

T.J. Pelham

Are you wondering how a Christian should respond to current events? What are we to think about a world that appears to be going absolutely mad? How are we to discern the signs of the times? In this podcast, featuring The Reverend Thomas Pelham, The Reverend Daniel French, The Reverend Doctor J.A. Franklin and the occasional guest, we attempt to give some answers. Email us at irreverendpod@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter @irreverendpod or on Telegram at https://t.me/irreverendpod. We also have a youtube channel which can be found by searching Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! If you would like to support the show, which can be done from £2.50 plus VAT per month, you can join our Patreon community. Please go to www.patreon.com/irreverend

Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs

Rev Jamie is back with a solo episode that starts with absurdity and ends with righteous anger.

🔥 The Home Office’s jaw-dropping pamphlet telling asylum seekers that “in the UK both people must say yes to sex” – complete with unfinished sentences and cartoon illustrations. Madeleine Grant calls it Victorian moralising; Jamie calls it something far darker.

👑 Prince Harry’s latest “hostage video” for the Diana Award: systemic racism, unconscious bias, and the obligatory apology for the sins of previous generations. Production values that would embarrass a parish podcast.

🎓 Academia continues its descent: a very tall man in a dress receives an honorary degree for DEI activism at the University of Bradford… while Cambridge’s Education Faculty hires someone who once called for engineering degrees to produce “advanced weaponry for jihad.”

And the main event: the continuing fallout from Jason Arday’s death. Nathan Cofnas speaks. The Bishop of Croydon and former Archbishop Rowan Williams turn the tragedy into a morality play about “bullying” and “basic human dignity” – while ignoring the plagiarism, the fabrications, and the DEI machine that put an unqualified man on a pedestal from which he had so far to fall.

Jamie names names, refuses the victimhood narrative, and asks the forbidden question: who is actually responsible?

Plus: the quiet death of the parish system under “oversight ministry” and why the Church of England’s technocrats don’t understand what a priest actually is.

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Home Office: “Don’t Rape” Advice for Migrants | Harry’s Hostage Video | CofE Blames Press for Arday Suicide 🔥

Rev Jamie returns with a powerful solo episode on the tragic death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday and what it reveals about our post-truth culture.

In this episode:

🔥 Jason Arday’s death and the reaction The James O’Brien interview, the rejection of meritocracy, the Trafalgar Square vigil, Diane Abbott’s claims of a “vicious campaign”, and the Committee for Academic Freedom’s response.

📖 Victimhood as the new sainthood How modern culture has taken the Christian idea of martyrdom and twisted it into identity politics.

⛪ Church of England Project Spire Alex Scott discovers her ancestor was a slave owner — and why race-based reparations make no sense.

⛪ Truro’s 21-church benefice Mass opposition ignored, and Bishop David Williams’ comments on “priest-centred” ministry.

Timestamps: 0:00 – Intro & apology on sociology 
3:30 – Lord’s Prayer & John 9 
11:30 – Jason Arday’s death and the culture war 
25:40 – The James O’Brien interview & meritocracy 
42:00 – Trafalgar Square vigil & Diane Abbott 
55:00 – Project Spire & Alex Scott 
1:05:00 – Truro 21-church benefice 
1:15:00 – Listener emails

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Jason Arday Dead – The Cult of Victimhood, Diane Abbott & CofE Reparations Madness 🔥 | Irreverend

Jamie and Tom are back with another explosive episode.

🔥 Jason Arday / Cambridge scandal
The “inspirational” professor whose remarkable life story is collapsing, extensive plagiarism, incoherent teaching, a $1.15 million book deal still going ahead, and the toxic DEI culture that allowed it all to happen.

⛪ Madeline Grant on the Church of England
Why the CofE is still doubling down on Project Spire and 2020-era racial politics long after the rest of society has moved on.

⚖️ Massachusetts abortion law
A major change expanding access to later-term abortions — and what it reveals about the direction of Western culture.

Sharp, unfiltered, and no sacred cows.

Support the show:
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🔥 Substack → https://www.patreon.com/c/irreverend
📧 Email / donations → irreverendpod@gmail.com

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Cambridge DEI Scandal EXPOSED + CofE Still Woke & Abortion Law Change | Irreverend

In this episode of Irreverend, Rev. Jamie Franklin examines two major stories making waves in the Church and wider culture.

1. The Archbishop of Canterbury in Ghana
Filmed visits to former slave sites, public displays of piety, and a renewed commitment to the Church of England’s £100 million slavery reparations fund. Historical claims, collective guilt theology, African involvement in the slave trade, British abolition, parish backlash, and the legal challenge now underway.

2. Oxford Union debate – “The West is right to be suspicious of Islam”
Protesters outside, Tommy Robinson on the panel, a revealing joke about him being “cooked,” the attempt to separate Islam from Islamism, the age of Aisha, and why the Christian-history comparison doesn’t work the way some claim.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
5:37 Archbishop in Ghana & reparations
21:13 Oxford Union Islam debate

Parish funding stories and other comments, questions and stories welcome: irreverendpod@gmail.com

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Archbishop’s Ghana Slave Tour, £100m Reparations & Oxford Union Islam Debate | Irreverend

The Church of England is sitting on an £11.6 billion endowment — yet parish churches are being closed, merged, and left without clergy or cash.

In this hard-hitting episode, Jamie Franklin interviews the Rev. Marcus Walker, rector of St Bartholomew the Great in the City of London and one of the key voices behind the Save the Parish movement.

They dig into:

 • 🔥 The extraordinary growth at St Bartholomew’s (from ~50 to 250+) and why young adults are flocking to traditional high-church worship
 • 💰 How historic parish money has been redirected while poorer churches struggle
 • ⛪ The controversial push for 10,000 new lay-led church plants
 • 📖 The Quiet Revival, the King James Bible, beauty, and why “relevance” often means the opposite of what people actually want
 • ⚔️ What ordinary Anglicans can do to fight back

This is one of the most important conversations about the future of the Church of England right now.

Get involved:
🔥 Join Save the Parish → https://www.savetheparish.com/join/
🔥 Stand for General Synod → https://www.savetheparish.com/general-synod-manifesto-2026/#

Support the show:
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📧 Donate → irreverendpod@gmail.com

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£11.6 Billion Church Fund While Parishes Face COLLAPSE | Marcus Walker on Save the Parish

Jamie shares encouragement from listener feedback and reflects on the Parable of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl of Great Price — the Kingdom of Heaven is worth selling everything for.

This week’s topics:
- World Cup wrap-up: Why true unity comes from Christ, not global sporting events
- Andy Burnham’s speech as new Prime Minister — a return to 1970s economics?
- The Assisted Suicide bill returns to Parliament. (Write to your MP: https://righttolife.org.uk/jnmv).
- General Synod approves new “Festival of Creation in Christ” — theological renewal or net zero propaganda?
- Church decline and the state of theological education
- Free speech debate after a university employee’s arrest over vile posts celebrating Anne Widdecombe’s murder

Raw, honest, and unflinching. Subscribe and support the show if this content matters to you.

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🔥 Buy Me a Coffee → https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend

Email: irreverendpod@gmail.com

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New PM Burnham’s SHOCKING Speech + Church of England’s BIZARRE New Festival

In this week's episode of Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs, Jamie Franklin opens with the Lord's Prayer and Jesus' Parable of the Weeds, reflecting on judgment, patience, and hope in dark times.

Jamie addresses:
- The murder of Anne Widdecombe and grim reactions from some public figures, including Peter Tatchell
- England’s World Cup progress and the heated debate around nationalism and Jude Bellingham
- Bernard Randall’s legal victory after years of being targeted for orthodox Christian teaching
- The Church of England’s continued push for £100 million in slavery reparations (Project Spire) amid parish struggles
- General Synod’s engagement with a controversial Palestinian Christian document on Israel
- A narrow defeat of a motion undermining traditional marriage teaching

Hymn of the Week: "Just As I Am" by Charlotte Elliott.

Raw, honest, and unflinching. Subscribe and support the show if this content matters to you.

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Email: irreverendpod@gmail.com

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The Church of England is in a MESS: £100M Reparations, Synod Chaos, & Anne Widdecombe Murder

In this hard-hitting interview, Daniel speaks with investigative journalist Sonia Elijah about her new book 3:11 Viral Takeover.

Sonia breaks down:

 • The overwhelming evidence for a COVID lab leak and how top scientists knew it but pushed the natural origin story
 • How fear was weaponised to enforce compliance and crush dissent
 • The deeply flawed PCR testing regime and rushed mRNA rollout
 • Coordinated censorship between governments, Big Tech, and legacy media
 • The shift from temporary emergency powers to permanent digital authoritarianism

With over 940 citations, this is a meticulously researched account of one of the most consequential events of our lifetime.

If you want the truth behind the official COVID narrative — and what it means for the future — this episode is essential listening.

Get Sonia’s book: 3:11 Viral Takeover https://amzn.to/4w2cHxg

What do you believe really happened in 2020? Leave a comment or review!

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"3:11 Was a Civilizational Turning Point" – COVID Lab Leak, Censorship & Digital Control Exposed | with Sonia Elijah

The Church of England has released yet another howler — their official “Prayer for the World Cup.”

In this episode Revd Dr Jamie Franklin dissects the theologically shallow, barely comprehensible prayer, its widespread mockery, the questions raised at General Synod, and the woeful response from the Bishop of Lichfield and the Liturgical Commission.

Why is the institution doubling down instead of apologising? And who on earth signed this off?

If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, leave a 5-star rating, and write a quick review — it really helps us reach more people!

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Email: irreverendpod@gmail.com

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Who is responsible for CRINGE World Cup Prayer? - Synod Demands Answers

In this week’s Irreverend, Jamie, Tom, and Daniel tackle the biggest stories with their usual mix of wit and insight.

Trump personally intervenes with FIFA to delay a red card for the US team — genius gamesmanship or outright interference? The lads break down his hilarious press conference and what it says about “fair play.”

Nigel Farage dramatically resigns his seat and forces a by-election in Clacton… but the major parties refuse to stand, leaving him facing Count Binface. Bold move or massive miscalculation?

Plus:

 • Jeremy Clarkson’s provocative plan to save the Church of England by deconsecrating empty churches
 • Latest developments in the Church of England’s LLF saga
 • Kemi Badenoch, Andy Burnham, and the state of British politics
 • Medieval chainmail barbecues, Erling Haaland the Viking, hot weather rants, and a stirring hymn of the week

Funny, faithful, and fearlessly irreverent Christian commentary on faith, politics, sport, and culture.

If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, leave a 5-star rating, and write a quick review — it really helps us reach more people!

Support Irreverend:
🔥 Patreon → https://www.patreon.com/irreverend
🔥 Substack → https://irreverendpod.substack.com
🔥 Buy Me a Coffee → https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend

Email: irreverendpod@gmail.com

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Cambridge DEI Scandal EXPOSED + CofE Still Woke & Abortion Law Change | Irreverend

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