Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 617 )

• “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

• 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