Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 612 )

• Manchester Terror Attack

  Yesterday my dad was 86 years old. Today at least 22 families will wake up to a world in which their own children will have found their life ended young. The... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Election Fever

  Well, it’s probably pushing it a bit to describe the current same-old-same-old game as feverish. The bandying around of numbers remains as tedious and... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Blues

  

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show.It’s funny what floats up to the surface of the memory when you’re... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• He is Risen! So What?

  This is the text of this morning’s sermon for Easter Day at Ripon Cathedral:Acts 10:34-43 & John 20:1-18Language matters. Describing the latest military attack... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Good Friday

  

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:I have no idea how I would handle watching children being brought... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Maundy Thursday in Bradford Cathedral

  

  This is the text of my sermon at this morning’s Maundy Thursday Chrism Eucharist for the Diocese of Leeds in Bradford Cathedral.1 Samuel 3:1-10 & Luke 7:36-50... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• When Worlds Collide (again)

  At its creation at Easter 2014 the new Diocese of Leeds inherited a number of international partnership links. Three years into the new diocese, I invited our... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Brexit and Gibraltar

  So, the PM is prepared to go to war on Spain over the status of Gibraltar, is she? (Well, “showing the Falklands resolve” isn’t quite the same thing, but you ge... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Westminster Reflection

  This is the script of an article written in London within hours of being released from Westminster Abbey in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Parliament... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Westminster Attack

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme (written late last night after getting out of Parliament):I entered th... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Local News

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show with Michael Ball:If you are anything like me, there are times in the... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Loving. Living.Learning.

  This is the text of my Presidential Address to the Leeds Diocesan Synod this morning:I am suspicious of straplines and convoluted vision statements that are... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Hear Hear

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show:Well, we’re one day into Lent and I’m already struggling. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• House of Lords and Brexit

  This afternoon the House of Lords voted at Committee stage against the Government and in favour of an amendment to the European Union (Notification of... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Babylon

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:Just about a year ago I skirted the Isis stronghold of Mosul in Iraq. Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• House of Lords: Brexit

  Before resuming debate on the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill the House took four oral questions. Lord (Norman) Tebbitt, commenting on emission... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Love Yourself

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on the Chris Evans Show on BBC Radio 2 with Sara Cox (and after a nice chat with a couple of Strictly... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Language and Reality

  A meeting of bishops from the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Churches is coming to an end here in Birmingham. It has been a stimulating, encouraging,... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Populism, Nationalism and International Order

  This is the basic text of my speech in the House of Lords this afternoon, not wanting to repeat what had already been said and trying to make a contribution... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• For Or Against in 2017?

  

  So, the new year has begun. In with a bang, or with a whimper of fear and hesitation?I was reminded this morning (while preparing for a radio interview) of the... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2017 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY