The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
ALAN GREENAs a teenager I was very clear that I wasn’t in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that’s what kept me in the church.
More Alan Green Quotes
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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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It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
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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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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
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Here’s Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn’t look much taller than that
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Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead
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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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Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
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As a parish priest of the Church Of England.
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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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Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions.
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Well, he had two stabs at the cherry
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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’d signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England.
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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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