Alan Green Quotes

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

I don’t know where this Arctic wind has come from but it’s freezing!

The bible is not a blueprint for every day of your life, it is an inspiration not a blueprint. That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.

I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.

John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul

As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.

Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.

Well, he had two stabs at the cherry

It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell. It’s about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life, people do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that’s how it should be. The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.

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. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.