The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.
ALAN GREENZiege hits it high for Heskey who isn’t playing
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That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.
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I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
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They care about their club, and that’s why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative
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Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?
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The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice.
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The bible is not a blueprint for every day of your life, it is an inspiration not a blueprint.
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The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
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I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church’s role in losing people.
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But we’ve got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it’s about being human.
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I think what we’re really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.
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In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.
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Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.
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Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.
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Well, he had two stabs at the cherry
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