That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.
ALAN GREENThe Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
More Alan Green Quotes
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I’d signed up not just for Christianity but the established 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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The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
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Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.
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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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John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul
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The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.
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It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
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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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Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
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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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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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And that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell.
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Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead
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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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