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.
ALAN GREENIn the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.
More Alan Green Quotes
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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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The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
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It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
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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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As a parish priest of the Church Of England.
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This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.
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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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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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I’d signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England.
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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’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
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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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