The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice.
ALAN GREENAs 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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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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Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead
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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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Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn’t playing
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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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Here’s Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn’t look much taller than that
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?
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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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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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John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul
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It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
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John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on
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Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.
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I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
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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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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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The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
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