I frequently find myself praying for punk, for something to come along and upset everybody and ignite a few fires and behave disreputably. Richard Coles Read Quote
The thing I worry about with religion isn’t to do much with forgetting Christmas. It’s to do with religion being angry and violent. Richard Coles Read Quote
Trying to do Christianity properly is tough. Life as a priest is rigorous and disciplined. It involves sacrifices. Richard Coles Read Quote
I was licensed and installed as 59th Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon, in Northamptonshire, in 2011. Richard Coles Read Quote
I think that Christians should have confidence, we have always been part of the mainstream conversation, and if we don’t join in often what you hear gets hectoring and mad, just people on the margins. Richard Coles Read Quote
I spend much of my time in a broadly liberal secular world but I don’t belong to it, I belong somewhere else. Richard Coles Read Quote
In the church I am very accountable, to the parish and the deanery; in the media thing I am not really accountable, I am out there on my own as a sort of busy, recognised religious person. Richard Coles Read Quote
I completely understand why people would find the Church intolerable. I’m not the least bit surprised when people seek to leave it, though I miss them and I wish they’d stay. But I sometimes think you leave to come back, and that’s certainly true in my case. Richard Coles Read Quote
I was born into the Church of England but in the most nominal way possible you can imagine, so it’s Christmas and Easter. And then like a great many clergy in the Church of England I actually got nobbled by being a chorister. Richard Coles Read Quote
