“That level of expectation that I’m going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church”

Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.

The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.

And that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell.

That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.

John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul

It’s about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

I don’t know where this Arctic wind has come from but it’s freezing!

The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice.

They care about their club, and that’s why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative

That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism.

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Well, he had two stabs at the cherry

This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.

Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.

I’ve bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p.

They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.

That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

The only thing God is building in this world is his church.