The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.
ALAN GREENI 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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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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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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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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You don’t score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.
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Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.
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Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.
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They care about their club, and that’s why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative
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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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It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
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People do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that’s how it should be.
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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 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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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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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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