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Bread and Rosaries

Adam Spiers, Luca Von Badass, Jonny Bell & Ben Molyneux-Hetherington

89 episodes

1 week ago

Send us a text 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 Support ...

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Send us a text 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 Support ...

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Episodes (20/89)

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Ep.84 - B&R Awards 2025!

Send us a text 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 Support ...

1 week ago

1 hour 39 minutes

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Ep.83 - Blessed are the Arms Dealers

Send us a text 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! Support the show Everyth...

4 weeks ago

1 hour 13 minutes

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Ep.82 - Green Party EXTREMISTS vs. Evangelical Alliance

Send us a text 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 dangeroustalk with straight...

1 month ago

1 hour 28 minutes

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Rosaries Rewind: Remembrance Redux (feat. Rev. Robin Hanford)

Send us a text For our final Rosaries Rewind of the series, please enjoy this episode from 2022. We will be back with new episodes very soon! Adam is joined not by Ben, who got called into work at the last minute, but by the Rev'd Robin Hanford. Robin and Adam return the podcast to the topic of Remembrance and ask if a radical Remembrance is possible. Find Robin Hanford here: Twitter – @RobinHanford Web – https://hanford.me.uk/ "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" by Wilfred Owen...

1 month ago

59 minutes

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Rosaries Rewind: Remembrance

Send us a text We're still on a break from recording so once again we've got an old episode for you. This time, it's a very early episode from 5 years ago looking at the celebration of Remembrance. Adam and I discuss our various problems with Remembrance and wearing poppies. Support the show Everything 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 link

2 months ago

32 minutes

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Rosaries Rewind: A Spectre is Haunting the Pod (feat. Emma Holton)

Send us a text Unfortunately due to various issues, we're taking some time out from recording. By way of apology, please enjoy this Halloween episode from the archive. A spectre is haunting the podcast, no sadly not communism, but the next best thing: special guest Emma Holton. Should Christians celebrate Halloween? Are light parties cool? Should Ben watch Star Trek? All will be answered in the most spooktacular episode of Bread and Rosaries yet! Support the show Every...

2 months ago

50 minutes

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Ep.81 - Mullally, Manchester, and the Met: A Mindgrapes Special

Send us a text There was just so much happening that Ben and Adam had to do what they do best: Mindgrapes. This episode ranges from the immediate horror of the Manchester synagogue attack, to how the event has been politicised. They also talk about how much of a change the appointment of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury actually represents. Finally, Blue Labour 2: Electric Boogaloo? Shibboleth magazine Support the show Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for ever...

3 months ago

56 minutes

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Ep.80 - Was Tommy Robinson's March Christian?

Send us a text Tommy’s back, bringing his biggest crowd yet. They march under crosses and shout about Jesus, but are they really Christian? And what role does the Church play in all this? Let’s see if we can find out! Support the show Everything 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 link

3 months ago

1 hour 6 minutes

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Ep.79 - "Do not let your sword grow cold": The German Peasants' War (feat. Martin Empson)

Send us a text This week Ben and Adam get revolutionary with Martin Empson, author of The Time of the Harvest Has Come. Together, they explore the German Peasants’ War of 1524–25, the largest social revolt in pre-French Revolution Europe. Along the way, they discuss one of its lesser-known leaders and Saint of the Week, Michael Gaismair. COMPETITION: Email breadandrosaries@gmail.com and tell us how you've been organising for a chance to win a copy of Martin's book! Buy Martin's book Mar...

4 months ago

1 hour 23 minutes

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Ep.78 - Why Liberals Don't Get Palestine Action

Send us a text So... Adam watched an episode of the Newsagents podcast and got sufficiently pissed off to rant about it into a microphone so now you all have to suffer! Along the way Ben offered a controversial Saint of the Week and Adam shared news from CAGE International about political prisoner T Hoxha. Take Action for T Hoxha: ✉️ Email the prison today and demand T is transferred to a hospital for independent health monitoring. RALPH.LUBKOWSKI@sodexogov.co.uk 📞 Call the prison: 01733 217...

4 months ago

1 hour 13 minutes

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Ep.77 - Democracy and the Church

Send us a text Because the audience clearly can't get enough democracy content, Ben, Adam, and Jonny reunite to pick up the conversation where they left off in Episode 62. This time they ask the question 'how democratic are our churches really?' Along the way, they detour into some sci-fi beef and discuss anti-apartheid activist, Steve Biko, for Saint of the Week. Clip from Cry Freedom (1987) © Universal/Marble Arch, used under UK fair dealing for criticism/review. Support the show Everyt...

5 months ago

1 hour 14 minutes

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Ep.76 - Bomb Gaza, but Don't Be Mean!

Send us a text This week, Ben, Adam, and Jonny take a look at the confected moral outrage machine. Why are we allowed to be angry at Bob Vylan, but not a government aiding and abetting a genocide? How does the state uses outrage to keep people quiet? Why do Christians so often fall for it? Plus: the antifascist joy of queer wrestling in nacho cheese, bookshop-based moral collapse, and a French pastor and his deeply unimpressed wife, who led a village to save thousands of Jewish re...

5 months ago

1 hour 15 minutes

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Ep.75 - Illegal Palestine Action Episode

Send us a text Well almost illegal anyway... if the government gets its way, pretty soon this kind of content will get us up to 14 years in prison, so enjoy (endure?) it while you can! CLARIFICATION: In this episode, Adam says he thinks Mark Rowley was formerly commissioner of the Northern Irish Police Service. This is not the case. Bread and Rosaries wishes to apologise for associating such a name with the good people of Ireland. It's bad enough the PSNI exists, without Mark Rowley getting ...

6 months ago

1 hour 8 minutes

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Ep.74 - Mary Magdalene, Christian Communism & Radical Love (feat. Dr. Fran Lock)

Send us a text Ben and Adam sit down with poet and Culture Matters editor Fran Lock to talk about her new poetry collection Love Is Stronger Than Death: Mary Magdalene and the Insurrection of Jesus. They talk Christian communism, doubt as an ethical practice, Mary Magdalene’s overlooked radical role, and what Christ and Huey Newton have in common. Plus: football and Palestine solidarity; Saint of the Week Thomas Hagerty. Buy Fran's book here! Support the show Everything Bread and Rosaries d...

6 months ago

1 hour 23 minutes

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Ep.73 - Christian Nationalism in the UK

Send us a text Ben and Adam coordinate T-shirts, then draw from Adam's article in Shibboleth magazine to coordinate their critiques of how church and crown legitimise each other. They also react to the horror of an American Pope and present perhaps their most famous Saint of the Week yet! Support the show Everything 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 credit...

8 months ago

1 hour 8 minutes

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Ep.72 - Praying the Price: Commodity Fetishism and Christianity (feat. Steve the Kangaroo)

Send us a text Join Ben and Adam as they try to work out why online shopping feels like a spiritual experience, uncover the story of a Jesuit resistance hero who outsmarted the Gestapo, and endure Adam’s chaotic new soundboard additions. Spoiler: Yes, your headphones are ethically cursed. Support the show Everything 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 a...

8 months ago

1 hour 10 minutes

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Ep.71 - He Died for Our Sins... Time for Chocolate (feat. James Sholl)

Send us a text Avoid God's wrath by joining Ben, Jonny, Adam and returning guest James Sholl, pastor of Toronto’s Wellspring Worship Centre, as they ask 'why did Jesus (have to) die?' Is penal substitution just divine child abuse? Does Jürgen Moltmann's solidarity theory hold up? And most importantly, how many times can Ben say the words "lick out" before we never want a Caramel Egg again? Plus learn about Saint of the Week, Trevor Carter, the Windrush-generation communist who co-founded Nott...

8 months ago

1 hour 26 minutes

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Ep.70 - The Manosphere

Send us a text Get yourself a beer and the roasted flesh of the cutest animal you can find, then buckle up and tune in for the manliest UK-based leftist Christian podcast ever! This week the team take on The Manosphere. Can they stare into the abyss and still come back? Will they suddenly start getting defensive whenever anyone mentions Joe Rogan? Only time (about 1hr 15mins!) will tell! Support the show Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost mo...

9 months ago

1 hour 15 minutes

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Ep.69 - How Do We Know What We Know? (feat. Professor Oli Mould)

Send us a text It's time for the big one: just how exactly do we know what we know? In episode 69 (nice!), Adam and Jonny have invited special guest Professor Oli Mould to talk with them about epistemology. Can they work out how to tell truth from lie in a post-truth world? Or will they fall prey to the postmodern neo-Marxists trying to spread their WOKE agenda? There's only one way to find out! Support the show Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does...

9 months ago

1 hour 22 minutes

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Ep.68 - New Media for the Christian Left (feat. Jonty Langley)

Send us a text It's finally happened! Beer Christianity's Jonty Langley has degraded himself (further?) by appearing on a lesser UK-based leftist Christian podcast! Join Ben and Adam as they quiz Jonty about the need for new leftist Christian media, as well as the new magazine that's playing its part! Jonty's links: S(h)ibboleth magazine Novel Beer Christianity podcast New Old Music podcast TikTok Twitter Support the show Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever...

10 months ago

1 hour 15 minutes