Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 612 )

• 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

• Brexit: Agencies (House of Lords)

  This is the text of my speech moving Amendment 93 to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill on the last day of Report Stage in the House of Lords. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Celebrating the Commonwealth

  This is the basic text of my sermon at the Commonwealth Service (with civic and multi faith attendance) at Leeds Minster this afternoon:Finally, beloved,... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Whose Reich?

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme (broadcast from Berlin and focusing on the impact on Germany of... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Martin Luther King: 50 Years

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show with Sara Cox:I have seen the Promised Land.50 years. I remember... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• It’s Not a Kinda Magic (Easter Day 2018)

  

  This is the basic text of this morning’s sermon at Bradford Cathedral:John 20:1-18Do you realise that in the eyes of many, many people, by coming here this... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• For the Clergy

  

  This is the basic text of my Maundy Thursday sermon at Wakefield Cathedral when the clergy gather to reaffirm their ordination vows:2 Corinthians 4 (with... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Facts of the Matter?

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:Remember this? “Humpty Dumpty to Alice in ‘Through the Looking Glass:... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY