John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on
ALAN GREENAs a parish priest of the Church Of England.
More Alan Green Quotes
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A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence
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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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Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?
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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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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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This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.
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I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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I think what we’re really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.
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It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
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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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And that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell.
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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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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 Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
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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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