Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 612 )

• 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

• More in Common?

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day, hastily re-written in the light of this morning’s news of an attack on Muslims coming out of a mosque... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Stability and Certainty

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme in the wake of the UK’s political situation.The Nobel Laureate Bob... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• “Long is Not Eternal”

  This is the text of this morning’s Presidential Address at the Ninth Diocesan Synod of the Diocese of Leeds.All bets are off.Not so long ago the UK had elected ... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• All Shook Up: Elvis and Luther

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show:I have just got back from ten days in Germany. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Latest London Attack

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme in the wake of Saturday’s terrorist attack in London. Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Books and Stuff

  

  A few days holiday allow space for recording a few books read recently.Doctors at War, ethnographer Professor Mark de Rond’s powerful record of his time embedde... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• “You See Me” (Kirchentag)

  

  This year’s Kirchentag ended yesterday as tens of thousands of people got fried under the sun at Martin Luther’s Wittenberg.I am staying on for a further week i... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY