“Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.”

People do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that’s how it should be.

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.

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.

I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.

I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.

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