Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 599 )

• Zimbabwe: the End of a World?

  

  Between 2004 and 2009 I visited Zimbabwe a number of times. The first visit exposed me to some of the realities and challenges of a beautiful country that Rober... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• New Bishop of Ripon

  

  It has been announced this morning by 10 Downing Street that the new suffragan [area) Bishop of Ripon in the Diocese of Leeds is the Rt Revd Dr Helen-Ann... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Fright Night

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show:I can’t say I’m the biggest fan of Halloween. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• (More) Thought for the Day

  Well, that set the cat amongst the pigeons. Last night I posted a response to the dismissive and sneering comments by Today presenters on BBC Radio 4. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Thought for the Day

  Tomorrow the Radio Times will publish an interview with presenters of the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme in which they dismiss as “boring” the Thought for the Day... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Understanding Germany and the EU

  

  Last night we went out with friends to the West Yorkshire Playhouse to see the Kneehigh Theatre Company’s production of Günter Grass’s epic The Tin Drum. It... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Dylan’s Gospel

  

  On 16 November I will be doing a gig at a pub in Pontefract with the acclaimed author of a new book on Bob Dylan. Clinton Heylin’s Trouble in Mind fills in all... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Brexit Lunacy

  

  The best place to consider what is going on in the UK is somewhere away from the UK. Look through a different lens and listen through distant ears. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• From Luther to Leeds

  

  This is the text of my Presidential Address to the Leeds Diocesan Synod this morning. (Disclaimer: I wrote it last night at Berlin Tegel and Amsterdam Schipol... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Wittenberg (1)

  

  Why on earth do religious events that happened abroad five hundred years ago have any significance for today’s world? Or for the church? Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Harvest Home

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.It’s harvest time again, and all over the land churches are desperatel... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• North Korea & Apocalypse

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.When I heard yesterday that North Korea had tested another nuclear... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Language and Love

  

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.Loving your neighbour as yourself is harder than it sounds. But, I... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Statues and Memory

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.The first time I went into the Foreign Office in London I was... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Constructive Ambiguity

  Words are marvellous, aren’t they? Even Humpty Dumpty recognised that those who make words mean whatever they want them to mean have power.We witness the... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• We Won’t Get Fooled Again: Trump, Charlottesville and the American Dream

  There is usually a tune going around my head. This week it is The Who’s ‘We won’t get fooled again’. The trouble is, we all too easily get fooled again. Just... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Long Journeys

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show.It’s that time of year again. For me August slows everything down and... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• In Khartoum

  

  Sunday 31 July 2017Yesterday the Archbishop of Canterbury led the four hour service that inaugurated the new (39th) Province of Sudan. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• To Khartoum

  On Sunday the new Province of Sudan will be inaugurated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Khartoum. This brings the total of autonomous provinces in the... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Digging for Rubies

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show:I came across a great line the other day. Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY