Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 599 )

• Jolabokaflod

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme:Icelandic isn’t one of my languages, but I learned recently about... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• ‘Tis the Season

  

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on the Chris Evans Show on BBC Radio 2. In the studio were Lee Mack, Paloma Faith, Tom Kerridge and... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Whose Story?

  Ths is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme – delivered five minutes after the announcement that Tory MPs have... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Brexit in the Lords

  This is the Hansard transcript of my speech in the House of Lords yesterday (39 out of 180) in the take-note debate on the EU Withdrawal Agreement and... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• People, Place and Purpose

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4 Today programme:Some years ago a Church of England report confidently asserted that... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Brexit Debate (again)

  This is the basic text of my speech in the House of Lords in today’s debate on the Prime Minster’s Statement on Brexit last week. Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Populism

  I was asked to preach in chapel at St John’s College, Cambridge, on ‘Populism’ in a series of sermons on ‘Thinking Allowed’. The readings were from Exodus 32:1-... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Food for Thought

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on the Chris Evans Show on BBC Radio 2 (with Sara Cox):Isn’t the internet a wonderful thing? Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Diocesan Synod: Presidential Address

  This is my Presidential Address to the Leeds Diocesan Synod in Harrogate this morning:When we decided to create the Diocese of Leeds back in 2013/14, who’d... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Zimbabwe Elections

  

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme:Of the thousands of photos in my phone one I return to time and time... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Greek Wildfires

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme:Television does not do justice to the reality of fire. Nor does what w... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Mis-speakings

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on the Chris Evans Show on BBC Radio 2:I know it was a week or two ago, but I am still – somewhat... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Brexit White Paper: Debate in the House of Lords

  This is the text of my speech in the House of Lords this afternoon in the debate on the preparations and negotiations for Brexit. It needs to be read in the... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• NHS at 70

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme:As we approach the 70th anniversary of the founding of the National... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Wide Space of Hope

  This is the text of this morning’s Presidential Address to the Leeds Diocesan Synod:Thank you for making it through the weather this time! Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Justice (Serbia 2)

  

  It’s really hot and humid here in Novi Sad, Serbia. This morning threatened thunder and rain, but it’s ended up being just … er … hot and humid. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Stranger (Serbia 1)

  

  I am in Novi Sad in Serbia for the General Assembly of the Conference of European Churches. The shadow in which 500 Christians from a vast range of churches mee... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Wedding

  I listened to the Royal Wedding (Harry and Meghan, obviously) on the drive to Glasgow yesterday. Marvellous. The soporific opening belied what was to follow:... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Babel Revisited (Yorkshire Post)

  This is the text of an article published on Friday 18 May (pre-Pentecost) in the Yorkshire Post:Does Teresa May speak French? Or German? Or any other foreign... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Everybody Hurts

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show (in Mental Health Week):It seems to me that some people are better at... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY