Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 612 )

• Dementia: Memory and Identity

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme in which dementia was one of the themes chosen by guest editor Carey... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Slaughter in Berlin

  This is the text of an article published today (and written in haste) in the Yorkshire Post following the attack in Berlin last night:Any pretence at optimism... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• From the Train

  

  I have a weird life.Last Monday I chaired a Bishop's Staff Meeting in Leeds before getting the train to London to record BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Abdication

  

  This is the text of an article I published today in the Yorkshire Post marking the eightieth anniversary of the abdication of King Edward VIII:It is not every... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Oh. My. God.

  

  This is the script of this morning's Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans Show in the company of the Kaiser Chiefs, actors Michael Fassbender and... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• “Scared Christians”

  I knew I shouldn’t have done the interview with PA the other night. That said, I did, and I take responsibility for what followed. Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Reconciliation

  This is the script of this morning's Thought for the Day on BBC's Radio 4 Today programme:This week we have heard two stories about violence and extremism that... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Jaws of Defeat

  This is the script of this morning's Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme:Chatting recently to an academic who leads a leadership consultancy,... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Remembrance 2016

  

  This is the text of an article published in the Yorkshire Post today: A couple of years ago a book was published that offers readings, prayers, poems and... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Kindness

  

  This is the script of this morning's Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans Show on the day Leonard Cohen died. In the studio were actors Rufus Sewell... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Trumped

  It is infinitely amazing how instantly we all jump to judgement. Analyses of Donald Trump's win were pouring out even before it had been formally declared. Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The National Interest

  A statement was read in the House of Commons yesterday and repeated later in the House of Lords regarding the 'Process for Invoking Article 50'. Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Sing It

  

  My friend Judy Bailey has sent me the link to a song in which she brings together 21 artists from every continent. I serve with Judy at each Kirchentag in... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Public Discourse

  This is the text of this morning's Presidential Address at the Leeds Diocesan Synod:The fifth of November. The day we remember how we used to burn Roman... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Fragility of Civilisation

  

  I am in Erfurt, Germany, to preach at the Reformation Day service in the Augustinerkirche where Martin Luther studied at the university and became a monk. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Maybe the Poet…

  This is the script of this morning's Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme:It is said we live in interesting times. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Meanings of Brexit

  It is clear that the government is working assiduously to create some shape out of the decision in the June referendum to leave the European Union. Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2016 SOCIETY

• Loving.Living.Learning

  

  This is the script of this morning's Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans Show in the company of Robbie Williams, Anne Robinson, Mark Strong, Michael... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Nature of Belief

  

  One of the questions constantly raised about the term “freedom of religion or belief” is that “belief” is assumed to be synonymous with “blind assumption”, “mer... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Freedom of Religion and Belief

  

  A quick link to the speech by the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, at this morning's opening session of the IPPFoRB conference at the Reichstag in Berlin.... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY