- 1 hour 22 minutes92 - Rejected Saints of the Week
Ben and Adam look at a few figures who did some cool stuff, but didn’t quite make it onto the Saint of the Week list, and debate whether this week's Saint of the Week, Jesse Jackson, should be struck off before he's even arrived! They also talk about the difference between liberal identity politics and leftist intersectionality.
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Music credits at this link6 May 2026, 5:00 am - 1 hour 19 minutes91 - Red Clydeside: The Church, the Unions, and a Revolution That Almost Was? (feat. William Gibson)
This week Bread and Rosaries takes a trip to Scotland to chat with student minister and PhD candidate, William Gibson, about Red Clydeside: the strikes, rent protests, anti-war organising, and radical politics of Glasgow in the early twentieth century. We also look at the Church of Scotland’s uneasy relationship with working-class struggle, social reconstruction, and capitalism itself, including why so much of the church’s witness seemed to drift away from the politics of justice it once claimed to care about. Along the way, Adam reflects on the life and death of anarchist YPJ volunteer, Anna Campbell, and William introduces us to socialist and peace activist Helen Crawfurd for Saint of the Week.
More on Red Clydeside from the University of Strathclyde
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Music credits at this link14 April 2026, 5:00 am - 1 hour 14 minutes90 - The Crucified Christ and the Crucified People
It’s Easter, so obviously Ben, Jonny and Adam start where every serious theological podcast should: Afro Man… in court… vibing to his own music while being unsuccessfully sued by police.
It’s broadly downhill from there, but the main theme, Ignacio Ellacuría's crucified people, is well worth hearing about.David Tombs’ article is Jon Sobrino and ‘the Crucified People’
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Music credits at this link4 April 2026, 5:00 am - 1 hour 25 minutes89 - Is Lent Still Relevant?
In this episode of Bread and Rosaries, Jonny, Ben and Adam ask a simple question: what is Lent actually for?
Has it become too individualised? Is it more about self-improvement than transformation? How have practices like fasting and “giving things up” shifted over time, and what might be lost when Lent is detached from justice, community and repentance?
Along the way, they also get into questions of forgiveness, accountability and power, asking what genuine repentance really looks like when the performative apology seems to be everywhere.
Link to the poem Foolish Men Who Accuse: https://poets.org/poem/you-foolish-men
Link to Jonny’s lent reflection: https://www.methodist.org.uk/for-churches/resources/videos/lent-2026-bible-studies/
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Music credits at this link29 March 2026, 5:00 pm - 1 hour 38 minutes88 - Evangelism After Hell (feat. Jonty Langley)
This week we’re joined by Jonty Langley, editor of Shibboleth magazine and host of the Beer Christianity podcast, to tackle Shibboleth's latest topic: evangelism. Is evangelism inherently manipulative? Why do leftist Christians often seem more comfortable evangelising for politics than for Jesus? Does Christianity really have anything distinctive to offer? What happens to evangelism when eternal damnation is off the table? What might evangelism look like on the other side of deconstruction? These are all questions that exist. We'll be damned if we know the answers!
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Music credits at this link10 March 2026, 6:00 am - 1 hour 27 minutes87 - Doing Theology Where You Live (feat. Erica Dunmow)
Ben and Adam are joined by Erica Dunmow of the Urban Theology Union to talk about what it really means to do theology where you live. They explore urban theology, liberationist praxis, and the legacy of John Vincent.
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Music credits at this link24 February 2026, 6:00 am - 54 minutes 58 seconds86 - Love the Stranger. Challenge the Lies. (feat. Rev. Chris Howson)
Adam speaks with Chris Howson, chair of Sunderland City of Sanctuary, about lies in Reform UK's recent campaign leaflets and about what a Christian response to scapegoating and hostility should look like. They also discuss one man's unusual excuse for not obtaining planning permission.
BBC article on Chris' challenge to Reform
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Music credits at this link10 February 2026, 8:00 am - 1 hour 35 minutes85 - Reform UK Goes to Church
Adam has, for the delectation of the listeners,
foolishlybravely subjected himself to yet another video recording of right-wing faith hobbyists making asses of themselves. Now it's Ben's turn. Join the lads as they head off to St Michael’s, Cornhill, in the City of London, for the launch of the Reform Christian Fellowship.What’s on the menu?
🍿 Sermon breakdown
📖 Bad Theology
⚡ And, of course, the ever-present "cancel culture"Along the way, they Mindgrapes 🍇 the Church of England’s Living in Love and Faith announcement and stumble across a familiar-yet-unfamiliar dragon-murdering Saint of the Week 🐉✝️.
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Music credits at this link20 January 2026, 6:00 am - 1 hour 39 minutes84 - B&R Awards 2025!
It's finally here! The annual (probably) awards ceremony people actually care about! Who will win the coveted Best Christian and Best Church gongs? And who can claim to be the first ever recipient of the biggest prize around - the Bread and Rosaries Piece Prize?! Listen now to find out in this bumper awards edition of the greatest UK based leftist Christian podcast released on a semi-fortnightly basis!
The Bird Who Sang the Trisagion by Robert A Kitchen and Glenn Peers
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Music credits at this link27 December 2025, 6:00 am - 1 hour 13 minutes83 - Blessed are the Arms Dealers
The Church of England Is Now Investing in Arms. Cool. This week, Ben, Jonny and Adam talk pigs, peace prizes, and the slow spiritual death of the Church of England. Adam reflects on finding more joy at a winter fair than in most churches, Ben explains (again!) why liberals can’t be trusted, and Jonny questions what ‘Prince of Peace’ actually means when the C of E decides weapons are a sound investment strategy. Plus, our first Hussite Saint of the Week!
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Music credits at this link11 December 2025, 6:00 am - 1 hour 28 minutes82 - Green Party EXTREMISTS vs. Evangelical Alliance
This week, Adam and Ben dive into yet another baffling episode of the Evangelical Alliance’s Cross Section podcast, where the hosts calmly explain that Zack Polanski’s Green Party and Tommy Robinson’s merry band of fascist grifters are basically two sides of the same extremist coin. Yes, really.
The guys listen and respond as the sensible moderates of Cross Section:- warn churches about the rise of “extremes”
- frame mild social democracy as radical and dangerous
- talk with straight faces about “the transing of kids”
- insist Jesus wouldn’t support state welfare
- suggest Tommy Robinson may be experiencing a Holy Spirit awakening
- argue that abortion rights, LGBT dignity, and bodily autonomy are signs of moral decline
But remember folks, they're the sensible moderates.
So join Ben and Adam as they complain, like only mediocre white men can, about theology, politics, civility rhetoric and historical amnesia.
The Class Struggle and Christian Love by Herbert McCabe
Adam's article in S(h)ibboleth Magazine
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