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.
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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John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul
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I’ve bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p.
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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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The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
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I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
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The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.
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I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.
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Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?
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Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.
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I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
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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 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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Here’s Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn’t look much taller than that
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Well, he had two stabs at the cherry
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Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
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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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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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This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.
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As a parish priest of the Church Of England.
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The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
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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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It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
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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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I don’t know where this Arctic wind has come from but it’s freezing!
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A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence
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