“That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.”

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.

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.

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Well, he had two stabs at the cherry

This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.

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

I’ve bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p.

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.

Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn’t playing

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.

The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

We are here to make another world.

The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.