“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.”

I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.

It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.

The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.

Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.

As a parish priest of the Church Of England.

Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead

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

Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.

We begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.