The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
ALAN GREENAnd that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell.
More Alan Green Quotes
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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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In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.
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Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?
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The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
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Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn’t playing
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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.
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Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
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I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
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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 language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.
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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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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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As a parish priest of the Church Of England.
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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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