The Irreverend Awards - One Year Anniversary Special

Join Revs Tom, Daniel and Jamie for the one-year anniversary special of Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs! Our Scripture is taken from Philippians 4:8-9. We reflect on a year's worth of pertinent, theological analysis of current events through the medium of the "Irreverend Awards", a full list of the winners (and losers) is below these notes, but, please, don't spoil the surprise! Thanks to all who have been with us through this year and here's to another year of Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs!Notices:Thanks to our Patreons! Support us from £1.50 plus VAT per month: https://patreon.com/irreverendIrreverend Weekly Sermon Audio: https://irreverendsermonaudio.buzzsprout.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/IrreverendPodTelegram: https://t.me/irreverendpodEmail: [email protected]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMAcRZPstCujEN4p8dF_ClQOdysee: https://odysee.com/@irreverend:5Audio Podcast: https://irreverend.buzzsprout.comThe Irreverend AwardsBest Bible verse/passageMatthew 11:28-30 (Tom), Hebrews 2:15 (Daniel), Romans 12:21 (Jamie)Best book of BibleRevelation (Jamie), Genesis (Daniel), Job (Thomas)Best hymnFather, hear the prayer we offer (Thomas), Let all mortal flesh keep silent (Daniel), I bind unto myself today (Jamie)Best songUprising (Muse), Wake Up (Jamie), Blinding Lights (Daniel)Best filmV for Vendetta (Tom), A Hidden Life (Daniel), Greenland (Jamie)Best television showThe Great Pottery Throwdown (Tom), Loki (Daniel), The Last Kingdom (Jamie) Best novelWar and Peace, Tolstoy (Jamie), That Hideous Strength, CS Lewis (Tom), The Circle, Dave Eggers (Daniel)Best spiritual/Christian/theological bookThe Benedict Option, Rod Dreher (Tom), Live not by Lies, Dreher (Daniel), City of God, St Augustine (Jamie)Best priest/church leaderBernard Randall (Daniel), Douglas Wilson (Jamie), Phill Sacre (Tom)Best bishop St Augustine (Tom), Michael Nazir-Ali (Daniel), Bishop Carlo Maria Vigano (Jamie)Best journalistCalvin Robinson (Daniel), James Delingpole (Jamie), Lionel Shriver (Thomas)Best politicianSir Robert Simms (Tom), Charles Walker (Daniel), Ron DeSantis (Jamie)Best podcastIrreverend: Faith and Current Affairs (Tom), London Calling (Daniel), The Rest is History (Jamie)Biggest inspirationLaura Dodsworth for A State of Fear and general engagement (Daniel), Zoe Willis on home education (Jamie), Alan Titchmarsh (Tom)Best foodSteak (Jamie), Sweet and Sour Chicken (Tom), “Winking Prawn” BBQ (Daniel)Best episode of IrreverendLaura Dodsworth, Hearing our Fears (Tom), Esther O’ Reilly, Legend of Banter (Daniel), Eucharist Debate w/ Tom and Jamie (Jamie)Best news (excluding the “Good News”)Firing of Matt Hancock (Jamie), Churches staying open over third lockdown (Tom), Best Tweet@bennyjohnson, Oct 5Scientists at Pfizer are saying the same things that get regular people deplatformed and labelled conspiracy theorists. Project Veritas does it again.Best blogEsther O’ Reilly, Young Fogey (joint award)Most likely destination outside of the Church of England?Free Church of England (Tom), Anglican Church of North America (Daniel), Eastern Orthodox (Jamie)Raspberry AwardHarry and Meghan (Jamie), Bath and Wells Diocese authors, Where We are Now (Tom), Priest in Plymouth Diocese who set himself alight (Daniel)Support the show