It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
ALAN GREENPeople do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that’s how it should be.
More Alan Green Quotes
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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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I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
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John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul
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I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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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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I’d signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England.
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Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions.
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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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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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People do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that’s how it should be.
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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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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 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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