Hungary Four - England Kneel

Rev Tom Pelham is back joining regular host Rev Jamie Franklin. In an episode packed full of spiritually enlightened cultural wisdom, we ask why the English football team has become so terrible (maybe because they have stopped caring about football and now imagine that the sport is a vehicle for the transmission of their "values"?) and why Hollywood seems so unilaterally incapable of making entertaining films (with the notable exception of Tom Cruise's latest blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick). We talk Matt Walsh's recent documentary What is a Woman? and discuss recent church news including: Justin Welby and various bishops slam the government's plans to send illegal immigrants abroad to seek a better life in Rwanda (but, whoops, they put their public letter on an online newspaper that has a paywall so nobody can read it!) and Pope Francis saying some surprisingly sensible things about Ukraine. In other news, the technocrats want to ban smoking for everybody except octogenarians and Cineworld finds itself caught in the middle of an internecine battle for supremacy between Sunni and Shia Muslims. We also talk the plausibility of many of the outlandish claims made by transhumanists, talk about how to live meaningfully in a "post-democratic" situation and much much more! Our Scripture this week is taken from Psalm 131 and raises the question as to whether or not we would find our lives a lot more peaceful if we just stop concerning ourselves with all this stuff.Notices:Please sign and share the petition 'Do not require parents to register home educated children with local authorities': https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/617340Thanks to our Patreon sponsors! Support us from £1.50 plus VAT per month: https://patreon.com/irreverendThursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.comJamie's Good Things Substack blog/newsletter: https://jamiefranklin.substack.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/IrreverendPodTelegram: https://t.me/irreverendpodEmail: [email protected] Podcast: https://irreverend.buzzsprout.comVideos on Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/IrreverendVideos on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@irreverend:5Links:Welby and Charles Slam Rwanda PlanPope Francis Comments on UkraineWould you prefer peace or "justice" in Ukraine?Technocrats want to ban smokingThe Fantasy of AddictionThe Crimes of the Pharmaceutical IndustryIslamic Protestors Close Down Lady of HeavenSectarian CinemaSupport the show