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.

Well, he had two stabs at the cherry

Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that

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

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

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.

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.