I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people.
ALAN GREENBut we’ve got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it’s about being human.
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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The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
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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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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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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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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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I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
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Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead
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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’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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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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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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This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.
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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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