Nicholas Baines
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Musings of a restless bishop
http://nickbaines.wordpress.com/
I write about anything that interests me - from faith to football, from politics to the arts and media.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 584 )
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TV, Politics and Accountability
This year’s MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival was given by Dorothy Byrne and it is brilliant – sharp, incisive, important and very funny. Read more
Posted on 22 August 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Holiday Books
This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought with Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2.I’m off on holiday soon – with my eldest son and his wife and their two youn... Read more
Posted on 30 July 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Letter from Ireland
The Bishop of Clogher in Ireland published in the Daily Telegraph today an open letter to the Prime Minister. John McDowell’s diocese straddles the border... Read more
Posted on 26 July 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Democracy and Debate
This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme:This weekend I was a little surprised to read in a German magazine tha... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Poetry
This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on the Zoe Ball Show on BBC Radio 2:Well, Glastonbury seems to have gone well. I caught up with bits of i... Read more
Posted on 02 July 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Diocesan Synod Address
This is the basic text of my Presidential Address at this morning’s Leeds Diocesan Synod in Harrogate.I am very grateful to my colleagues – and especially Bisho... Read more
Posted on 08 June 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
D-Day 75 Years on
This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought with Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2:Only four years, almost to the day, after tens of thousands of allied... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Heritage Rail and Young People (House of Lords)
This is the basic text of a speech in the House of Lords today.Lord Faulkner of Worcester: QSD on the report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Heritage... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Amazing Grace
This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought with Fearne Cotton on the Zoe Ball Show on BBC Radio 2:You know what it’s like when you get a song runnin... Read more
Posted on 29 May 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Endings
The is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme this morning:I’m not sure if a confession this early in the morning is... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Facing Reality
This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on the Zoe Ball Show on BBC Radio 2:I’ve got two sons – both of them well grown up now (that’s what I tel... Read more
Posted on 21 May 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Que Sera Sera
This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:I was checking my diary for this week when the news came in of the... Read more
Posted on 14 May 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Debate in Public Life
This is the text of a speech just given in the House of Lords. I dropped material covered already by others (I was the ninth speaker and there was a speech limi... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Tradition
This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme:When the news of the royal birth was announced yesterday part of the... Read more
Posted on 07 May 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Dancing in the Dark
This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Show:I’ve just been away for three months on study leave. Read more
Posted on 25 April 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Maundy Thursday and Vocation
This is the basic text of my sermon at this morning’s Chrism Eucharist in Ripon Cathedral:Never ever take your vocation – to lay or ordained discipleship and... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Sabbatical Stuff
I am currently on my first (and last) sabbatical leave. A week in Sudan was followed by just over two weeks in Jena (Germany) and a week in Basel (Switzerland). Read more
Posted on 16 March 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
History Repeating
The limits of one’s own horizons and experience always become exposed when seen through the eyes of an outsider. Since being in Jena for the last two weeks, I... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Betrayal
This evening I am going to listen to a lecture at the Theologische Fakultät of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität in Jena where I am staying for two weeks. Read more
Posted on 07 February 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Out of Time (Remember the USSR?)
Having the gift of space to read and think, it must not be wasted. While in Sudan last week I read Lindsey Hilsum’s biography of murdered journalist Marie... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY