I’d signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England.
ALAN GREENI grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s.
More Alan Green Quotes
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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 is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
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Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions.
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I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
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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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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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You don’t score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.
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I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead
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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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I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people.
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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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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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The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
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