And that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell.
ALAN GREENBeing a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.
More Alan Green Quotes
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Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions.
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It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
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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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Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.
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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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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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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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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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Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead
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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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The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.
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Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?
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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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As a parish priest of the Church Of England.
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