Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
ALAN GREENAnd that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell.
More Alan Green Quotes
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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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People do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that’s how it should be.
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And that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell.
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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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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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The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
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John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on
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I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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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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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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The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
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Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.
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A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence
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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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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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