Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions.
ALAN GREENThen the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.
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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The bible is not a blueprint for every day of your life, it is an inspiration not a blueprint.
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Well, he had two stabs at the cherry
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John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul
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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 don’t know where this Arctic wind has come from but it’s freezing!
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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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Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.
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The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.
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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’d signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England.
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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’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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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’s about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.
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