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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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And that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell.
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As a parish priest of the Church Of England.
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I’d signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England.
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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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As 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.
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John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on
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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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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.
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Well, he had two stabs at the cherry
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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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The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
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The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
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This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.
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I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s.
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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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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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Here’s Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn’t look much taller than that
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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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I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people.
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It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
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I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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It’s about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.
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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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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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I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
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