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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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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.

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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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