- 1 hour 26 minutes94 - Enough is Enough (ft. Matt Bernico & Dean Dettloff of the Magnificast)
Ben and Adam are joined by Matt Bernico and Dean Dettloff, hosts of The Magnificast and authors of the new book Enough is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism and Liberation Theology. They talk about how capitalism's obsession with endless growth is destroying people and planet, and ask what what resources Christian traditions like liberation theology may have for imagining something better.
Enough is Enough is available at all good bookshops and some bad ones. Matt and Dean encourage you to ask your local independent bookshop to get it in for you.
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Music credits at this link26 May 2026, 5:00 am - 1 hour 33 minutes93 - You Don't Need a Calling (ft. Damon Garcia)
Ben and Adam chat with three-time Bread and Rosaries returnee, Damon Garcia, about his new book, You Don’t Need a Calling. They talk about purpose, vocation, and why 'calling' can feel like religious version of productivity culture.
Damon's book is available from all good booksellers and also some bad ones. Or just visit Damon's website: DamonGarcia.comEverything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost money to produce so if you wish to support the show on Patreon, we'd love you forever!
Music credits at this link12 May 2026, 5:00 am - 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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