The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
ALAN GREENThat requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.
More Alan Green Quotes
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As a parish priest of the Church Of England.
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Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn’t playing
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It’s about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.
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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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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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It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
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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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People do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that’s how it should be.
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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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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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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’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul
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I’d signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England.
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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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