Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs

About Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs

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

Publisher

J.A. Franklin, T.J. Pelham, Daniel French

Category

news · news · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Oct 2020

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

30 of 364 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The God Solution Live: Christianity Built the West — And Why Cultural Christianity Isn’t Enough (plus the Project Spire Legal Challenge)

   Rev. Dr. Jamie Franklin and Rev. Daniel French discuss how Christianity built Western values and why cultural Christianity falls short in this live interview.

2. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Dawkins Still Doesn’t Understand God, A Botched Execution & the Church Accused of Welcoming the Far Right

   Rev'd. Dr. Jamie Franklin dissects Richard Dawkins' continued misunderstanding of God and explores a botched execution, offering insights into faith and societal issues.

3. 

   2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Jesus Is Trans? Viral Sermon Torn Apart + St Helen’s Breaks With Bishops

   Hosts Jamie, Tom, and Daniel dissect Flourish Klink's viral sermon on Jesus's gender identity and St. Helen's church's break with bishops, exploring ideological shifts in Christianity.

Inside a recent episode

The God Solution Live: Christianity Built the West — And Why Cultural Christianity Isn’t Enough (plus the Project Spire Legal Challenge)

Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But that's what's behind it, about challenging those preconceptions about Christianity and actually turning it on its head and saying, not only has Christianity not been a regressive force, but Christianity is actually the... the fundamental reason for most of the values that we still have today in terms of our ethics, in terms of our legal structure, indeed in terms of the intellectual framework that makes science and our development of technology possible in the first place. So that's the kind of argument from a sort of intellectual perspective. But then I end the book. I think the end of the book is really the most important part because I talk about what the response to all of this has got to be. […]

Who has been a guest on Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs

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• Thomas Pelham
• Marcus Walker
• Sonia Elijah

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4.7 / 5

39 ratings

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4.6 / 5

185 ratings

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