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 Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
More Alan Green Quotes
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I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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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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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’ve bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p.
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I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
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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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John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on
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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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Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead
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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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Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn’t playing
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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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It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
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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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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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