Bread and Rosaries
Welcome to Bread and Rosaries, the UK based podcast that delves into the complexities of eating the rich in the name of Jesus. We have episodes on protest, motherhood, policing, liberation theology, purity culture and much more. Plus guests superior to any other podcast! So whether you’re a Christian seeking a fresh perspective or a raging communist curious about spirituality in the revolution, Bread and Rosaries is here to blow your mind! And failing that, you can always come and join us as we try not to get sued for defamation by the Tories!
Episodes
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!
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!
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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 c...
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. RA...
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/Marb...
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...
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 I...
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.
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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!
Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost money to produce so if y...
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.
Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost money to produce so if you wish to support th...
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 ab...
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!
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!
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 podc...
That's right folks, it's the sequel nobody wanted! The German far-right have come second in the federal elections... everything's gonna be fine, right? Right?!! Oh God, tell us everything's gonna be fine!
Adam and Ben are joined for this episode by Dr. Antonia Rumpf, Equality Officer for the Protestant Church in Bremen, who helps them look at the recent federal elections and the role of t...
Does the UK have a Christian far-right? Yes... yes it does. We can't believe this is even a question, but one academic paper claims otherwise. Join Ben and Adam as they take a look.
NB There is no video this week because *someone* forgot to record it! Sorry about that.
Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost money to produce so if you wish to...
The Evangelical Alliance have been having a bit of an a recruitment drive on social media. This annoyed Adam so much that he insisted we do an episode about them and their shit!
Also present for today's episode are actual bona fide saint, Moses the Black; official enemy of the pod, Calvin Robinson, and fascist Vice President of the United States of America, JD Vance.
We planned this episode before Justin Welby announced his resignation and recorded it shortly after the news broke. It was set to be our most timely and relevant episode yet! But then Adam fell ill and couldn’t edit it in time. So, if you can, cast your mind back to last week, and this will all feel strikingly prescient—dare we say, prophetic even!
Ben and Adam reflect on a year of faith leaders' moral failure in response to Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people as well as a much better response from liberation theologian, Sarojini Nadar. They also talk about Saint of the Week, St. John Chrysostom. That's right, an actual official saint for Saint of the Week! And what's up with sports journalists covering for athletes who have committed...
How is democracy used ideologically? Is it even the best way to structure society? Are there alternatives? Jonny and Adam try to get to the bottom of it and along the way run into dogs painted to look like pandas, the resurrection of a long-lost biblical tree, and the first (and possibly only!) TORY Saint of the Week!
Everything Bread and Rosaries does will be free for everyone forever, but it does cost...
Is charity really the solution to society’s biggest problems, or is it just a sticking plaster for an evil capitalist system?! Join Ben and Adam as they critique Jon Kuhrt's lecture Grace, Truth and the Common Good, discuss this week’s Saint of the Week, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and explore why Lee Carsley refuses to sing the national anthem.
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