I’d signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England.
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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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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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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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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John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on
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A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence
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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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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 Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
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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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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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Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead
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As a parish priest of the Church Of England.
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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 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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