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.
ALAN GREENThe language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.
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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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It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
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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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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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Well, he had two stabs at the cherry
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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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As a parish priest of the Church Of England.
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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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I don’t know where this Arctic wind has come from but it’s freezing!
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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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I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people.
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This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.
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Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead
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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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As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church’s role in losing people.
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