Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 612 )

• True Colours?

  

  This is the script of this morning's Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans Show with Eric Bana, Rick Astley, Cyndi Lauper, Daisy Waterstone and Callum... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Doping and Duping

  This is the script of this morning's Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme:Call me biased, but this season has to be the best for football fans... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Price of Everything

  This is the script of this morning's Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme:When I got back from the Easter celebrations in Wakefield Cathedral... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Good Friday – Closer to the Light

  This is the script of this morning's Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans Show with Sara Cox:It's probably a good thing that I am sitting here in my... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Stay Or Go? (Iraq)

  

  During our recent trip to Iraq with Christian Aid, we had a difficult evening with a Christian priest who accused us (on behalf of the Western church) of... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Journey to Somewhere (Iraq)

  This is the script of this morning's Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme:I am not going to find this an easy week. Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• So It Goes… (Iraq)

  

  We left Erbil in the early hours of Friday morning and got back to the UK later that day. Flying into Istanbul in the morning sun, the city looked like it alway... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Cost and Commitment (Iraq)

  

  Our last day in Iraq. We leave Erbil early tomorrow morning. All credit to Christian Aid's Louise Finan and Laura Taylor for putting together and leading an... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Mine Host (Iraq)

  

  I am in Northern Iraq with a small group under the auspices of Christian Aid. Yesterday morning we met a group involved in reconstruction and development work i... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Judas on the Telly: Radio Times

  Before coming to Iraq I was asked to write a piece for the Radio Times. Picking up on the Kate Bottley programme on Good Friday, I thought I would start from... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Push and Pull Factors: Iraq

  

  It is the fifth anniversary of the war in Syria.I am in Iraq with several colleagues and under the auspices of Christian Aid. It is a brief visit, but we are... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Now for the Tough Stuff

  

  This is the text of my Presidential Address to the fifth Diocesan Synod in the Diocese of Leeds in Harrogate:Yesterday I spent the morning with over 100... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• BBC Charter Renewal

  There was a short debate in the House of Lords this afternoon on BBC Charter renewal. Allotted one hour, this meant that each speaker was limited to one minute. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Debating the EU

  The usual whinge. Running to stand still and haven't the head space to write much on this blog these days.However, Adrian Hilton wrote on the excellent... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Faith in Europe

  

  So, we are about to enter the most explicit exercise of collective faith and we have a few months to get used to the idea. The referendum on Britain remaining i... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Don’t Forget About Delight

  This is the text of the morning's Pause for Thought on the Chris Evans Show on BBC Radio 2:I think I'm probably not alone in having from time to time a song... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Looking in

  

  This is the text of this morning's Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme:In the middle of last week I got back from a ten-day visit to Tanzania. Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Under an African Sky (Tanzania Visit)

  

  When Paul Simon put out the epic Graceland, one of the most evocative lyrics on the album referred to “under an African sky”. I didn't really understand why an... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Catching up … Sort of

  

  I don't have much time these days for doing the blog. All I manage to put up is scripts or journalism. I recently did a paper at a theological conference, but... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• New Year 2016

  This is the script of this morning's Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme:It doesn't seem that long since we were doing this last year: looking... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY