Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 599 )

• 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

• Damned Power

  

  Having returned on Thursday evening from Sudan I left agin in the early hours of Saturday for Jena in Germany. This forms the real beginning of my sabbatical... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Sudan Visit

  

  I went with a colleague to Sudan last Saturday for a series of meetings and a day conference on ‘freedom of religion’ in Khartoum. Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Going Back a Different Way: Being Christian in a Populist World

  This is the basic text of a lecture at Bradford Cathedral today at the launch of the centenary year. It is quite long.Bradford Cathedral is 100 years old in... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2019 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Happy Christmas!

  This is the script of my address at the BBC Radio Leeds carol service recorded at Halifax Minster (with the same joke as in the Yorkshire Post piece. Sorry. Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Deal Or No Deal?

  

  This is the text of a commissioned article published in the excellent Yorkshire Post yesterday:A quick story.A little boy sat in his room trying to write his... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY