Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 598 )

• Christmas 2023

  This is the basic text of sermons preached at Bradford Cathedral on Christmas Eve at midnight and at Ripon Cathedral on Christmas morning.“The Word became... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Time and Faithfulness

  This is the text of the Presidential Address delivered to the Leeds Diocesan Synod yesterday (14 October 2023).When Bob Dylan wrote ‘The times, they are... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Hope

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in ... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Technoethics

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme.Tom Cruise once said of himself: “I feel the need, the need for speed”. Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Penny Lane

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme.You might not pick it up from my accent, but I grew up in Liverpool – ... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Dreaming

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.This might sound odd, but I am thinking a lot at the moment about... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Oppenheimer

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.It’s that time of year when I can get easily distracted by the ‘silly... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Seagulls

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2 with Zoe Ball.The silly season has clearly begun.A friend of mine has just drawn my... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Happiness

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought with Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2.Do you remember all those Nordic Noir telly series a few years ago – like... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Ziggy

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Show.Some things mature with age. Like taste in music. In my case, at least. Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Columba and Kherson

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.Columba and KhersonNearly forty years ago I spent a week on the... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Shaping the Year

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.This might come as news to you, but today – 2 June – is National Fish... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Role of UK in a Changing World

  This is the text of a speech I gave in a debate in the House of Lords (Grand Committee) yesterday. The debate was secured by the Lord Bishop of St Albans and... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• This is the Text of This Morning’s Presidential Address t...

  This is the text of this morning’s Presidential Address to the twenty fourth Diocesan Synod of the Diocese of Leeds.When Jesus instructed his friends to “love... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Ukraine: One Year On

  This is the text of a commissioned article published today in the Yorkshire Post on the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Levelling Up?

  This is Hansard’s record of my speech in yesterday’s Committee stage debate in the House of Lords as we began line-by-line scrutiny of the Levelling Up and... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Feet of Clay

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.When I was just twenty years old I worked in France for six months. Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Borderlands

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.President Zelenskiy’s address to Parliament yesterday was another... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Teachers

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.When I visit schools – usually primary schools – I always get asked... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Levelling Up

  This is the text of my speech in the debate in the House of Lords on Levelling Up (Second Reading) on Tuesday 17 January 2023. I was the fifth speaker out of 69... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY