Alan Green
Alan Green
Alan Greenhas been a BBC Radio sports commentator since 1981, mainly on football but also on golf, rowing and the Olympic Games...
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth25 June 1952
help
Mark's on his own out there. Help is often a long way away. This is a really big job.
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Do you ask a kid to sacrifice perhaps his best event for the sake of a possible team title? Track has that dual interest. It's a team and individual sport.
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I'm so excited about our lineup. We had said we were going to cut it back this year. But with Third Day, Jeremy Camp and The Newsboys, it's as big as ever.
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With the death toll still rising, it will take untold millions of dollars to get back some semblance of life along the nation's Gulf Coast. Most of us will never truly understand what it is like to have your life turned upside down overnight. No place to call your own. To become homeless in a day is unthinkable.
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We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.
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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. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
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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, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. 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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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.
thinking expectations people
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
thinking people church
I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. 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, the language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time. 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 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.
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Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions, 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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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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Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.