As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church’s role in losing people.
ALAN GREENPhil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
More Alan Green Quotes
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Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn’t playing
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Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.
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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 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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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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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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Here’s Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn’t look much taller than that
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A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence
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The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
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The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.
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As a parish priest of the Church Of England.
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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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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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The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
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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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