Revs Tom, Jamie and Daniel get together to discuss the way that the government have used fear to control people, the recent attack on people who do not want to have COVID-19 vaccinations and the projection of the words "vaccine saves" onto the statue of Christ the Redeemer.
Our Scripture this week is taken from Isaiah 43:1-2, which speaks of God's intention that we not live lives characterised by fear.
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The Telegraph - Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/14/scientists-admit-totalitarian-use-fear-control-behaviour-covid/)
Cake and Liberty - Oi Missus, Where's Your Bell? (https://www.cakeandliberty.org/2021/05/oi-missus-wheres-your-bell/)
The Independent - This is what we do about anti-vaxxers: No job. No entry. No NHS access (https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/antivaxxers-vaccine-coronavirus-nhs-b1849437.html)
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This is a short clip of a longer discussion between Lord Frost and Church of England ministers Daniel French, Jamie Franklin and Thomas Pelham on Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs. Lord Frost discussed Brexit, Covid, the Green Agenda, Behavioural Psychology, Masks, the Church and more.
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Church of England revs with a difference Jamie Franklin and Daniel French sit down to talk about the week's top stories. This time:
- What does the coronation tell us about modern Britain and the Church of England? Was it a grand affair or simply a reminder of the divided nature and lack of identity within our society?
- David Starkey once again courts controversy by saying that Prime Minister is "not properly grounded in our culture".
- Fraser Myers and Andrew Bridgen face off on GB News over the safe and effective treatment and related issues. Who won the debate?
- A surprisingly large amount of Canadians would like to see homeless people euthanised by the state.
And much much more as always!
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Links:
The Archbishop's Sermon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ByZUXxn1cw
Starkey in Trouble Again: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/05/04/david-starkey-racism-row-rishi-sunak-gb-news-coronation/
Bridgen/Myers Face-Off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaXJlDvZcjs
"Post-Christian" Euthanasia in Canada: https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1655448586019127296
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Church of England rev Jamie Franklin sits down with author and public intellectual Mary Harrington to talk about Mary's new book Feminism Against Progress. Describing herself as a "reactionary feminist" Mary argues that the the direction feminism has taken in more recent years has benefitted nobody except a small group of elite women and that we need to recover the concept of interdependence between men and women. She is a subtle yet outspoken critic of post-humanist thought and the application of the concept of freedom to the human body both in terms of the denial of sex differences and in the reconstruction of the human body along the lines suggested by transgender ideologues.
In a wide-ranging conversation, we spoke about the reality of hierarchy and power and how these can be turned for good, the difference between a feminism of freedom and a feminism of interdependence, how we can reconceive the concept of freedom in the context of marriage and family life, the role that Christianity can play in such a reconception, feminism after liberalism, the place of men and the danger of post-Christian patriarchy, internet mentorship and real world relationships, and the question of abortion for reactionary feminism.
Timings:
00:00-01:51 Welcome and Intro - Feminism Against Progress
01:52 -08:28 Critical Theory at the University of Oxford
08:29-18:12 Mary’s experiments in living and coming to terms with hierarchy
18:13-25:59How do you accept power/hierarchy and use it for good?
26:00-34:34 Two different types of feminism: interdependence and freedom
34:35-36:53 Freedom and the Family
36:54-40:19 Interlude
40:20-44:29 Motherhood and Liberalism
44:30-50:09 Where do you go with feminism after liberal individualism?
50:10-01:03:04 Men and Post-Christian Patriarchy
01:03:05-01:04:45 Internet Mentors and Real World Relationships
01:04:46 Solutions for feminist interdependence and the question of abortion
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This is a short clip of a longer discussion between Lord Frost and Church of England ministers Daniel French, Jamie Franklin and Thomas Pelham on Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs. Lord Frost discussed Brexit, Covid, the Green Agenda, Behavioural Psychology, Masks, the Church and more.
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In this very special episode, Revd Dr Jamie Franklin sat down with Joe Boot of the Ezra Institute for Cultural Reformation. We discussed the relationship between Church and State and how it applies in the age of Covid-19, the need for Christians to rediscover a fully-orbed world and life view, the climate change agenda and the emerging technocratic authoritarianism.
For more information on Joe Boot, please go to https://www.ezrainstitute.ca. His new book Ruler of Kings will be available from https://www.wilberforcepublications.co.uk in the next few months.
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Church of England vicars Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin are back. We reflect on the arrival of Jamie's fourth child and note how deeply indoctrinated we all must be to so easily assign its gender immediately after birth. In the news, events will almost certainly overtake us as Boris Johnson's premiership is surely over. We talk from a biblical perspective on the virtues of integrity and honesty and the folly of lies and deceit. In Church news, the CofE is apparently borrowing money in order to pay for its environmental agenda...is this a prudent Christian investment in the future or self-destructive virtue-signalling on an inconceivable scale? (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/07/04/church-england-borrows-money-fund-net-zero-drive/) We also read an insightful email from a military expert on the situation in Ukraine. Listeners will perhaps not be too surprised to hear that the situation is slightly more nuanced that the corporate media are leading us to expect.
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For our final episode before Christmas, Revs Tom and Jamie respond to Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby’s claims that being vaccinated is the moral thing and Christian thing to do (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10334569/Archbishop-Canterbury-says-unvaccinated-immoral-love-neighbour.html). They compare and contrast the archbishop’s approach with that of Michael Nazir-Ali who says that churches should stay open this Christmas as they play a vital and unique role which should not be abandoned due to the threat of the putative omicron variant (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/20/churches-should-not-shutting-doors-christmas-time/).
In other news, Fraser Nelson managed to get SAGE chief modeller Graham Medley to admit that policy groups within government asks SAGE to model negative outcomes to match policies that have already been decided (https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-twitter-conversation-with-the-chairman-of-the-sage-covid-modelling-committee). And in the most shocking news of the year the WHO have told families to cancel their Christmases in order to…you guessed it: save future Christmases! (https://dailysceptic.org/2021/12/21/who-tells-public-to-cancel-christmas-holiday-plans/)
Our Question the Rev segment deals with the issue of why the Church finds it hard to speak about sin. And our scripture this week is (again) taken from Revelation 2:1-7.
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In this week's episode, reverends Tom Pelham and Jamie Franklin sit down with Christine Padgham. Christine is host of the Coronastories podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coronastories/id1550018255) and blogs at https://informscotland.uk on Covid statistics. She is also a member of the Health Advisory and Recovery Team (https://www.hartgroup.org) which provides medical and scientific commentary of the Covid crisis. As well as other things, we talk about why it seems that the whole world seems not to care that none of the interventions appear to be working and, in many cases, are making things worse. What is the moral and spiritual significance of this situation?
Our Scripture this week is taken from Luke 12:49-56.
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Links:
Does the Church of England want you? - Daniel French (https://mallarduk.com/does-the-church-of-england-want-you-daniel-a-french/)
A reason to be vaccinated: freedom - John Piper (https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/a-reason-to-be-vaccinated-freedom )