But we’ve got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it’s about being human.
ALAN GREENI think what we’re really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.
More Alan Green Quotes
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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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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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It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
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You don’t score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.
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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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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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Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
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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 [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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This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.
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Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions.
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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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Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead
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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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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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