“The bible is not a blueprint for every day of your life, it is an inspiration not a blueprint.”

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

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.

The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes.

Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.

The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice.

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.

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx’s Capital.

The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.

The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.