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Richard Coles

I still feel a spike of anticipation when ‘O Come, O Come, Emmanuel’ strikes up and, in these andropausal years, I am unexpectedly moved by ‘Away in a Manger’.

– Richard Coles

Richard Coles

God chooses to arrive among the poor and the insignificant and the politically awkward, so what are we missing when we overlook them?

– Richard Coles

Richard Coles

My means of entry to ‘Christianity was singing in a choir. As a boy chorister, I grew up with Ancient and Modern, the evening canticles, versicles and responses, and carols.

– Richard Coles

Richard Coles

Jesus comes among us, in our all division, not to instruct, comfort or inspire but to die. In doing so, He answers the sum of our self-regard, stupidity and cruelty.

– Richard Coles

Richard Coles

A certain check to the sentimentality and commercialism of Christmas is the cluster of bereavements that often arrives towards the end of the year.

– Richard Coles

Richard Coles

One of the pleasures of living in London is the opportunity to do things that are only possible in a city of its size.

– Richard Coles

Richard Coles

I just looked preposterous. It would be ‘King Lear’ and I’d walk on with Cordelia’s dead body in my arms and the audience would hoot with laughter. The only time they didn’t laugh was when I was doing comedy.

– Richard Coles

Richard Coles

I am loathe to say I have a strategy in the broadcasting work I do, but I do think it is possible to be a priest who has something to contribute to mainstream media as long as you aren’t completely mad.

– Richard Coles

Richard Coles

What I wear identifies me as a priest. I don’t agree with all this trying to appear ‘normal’. If you want that to be normal, don’t take off your dog collar and then put it on again, because what you’re doing is playing along with the view that wearing one makes you odd.

– Richard Coles

Richard Coles

The dog collar is fascinating to people, when it doesn’t repel. I’ve got used to being shouted at in the street.

– Richard Coles

Richard Coles

In corporate life, I have noticed, it is getting harder and harder to say that things are bad.

– Richard Coles

Richard Coles

I was licensed and installed as 59th Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon, in Northamptonshire, in 2011.

– Richard Coles

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