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
hymns raises-questions church
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.
teenager fall listening
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.
emotion spirituality language
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.
thinking views church
I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.
christian jesus mean
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.
soccer games ships
It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
inspiration differences church
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.
soccer feet height
Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that
soccer mark defence
A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence
wind arctic knows
I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!
christian white people
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.
running football feet
Bruce, on his right foot, is still running...