Nicholas Baines
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Musings of a restless bishop
http://nickbaines.wordpress.com/
I write about anything that interests me - from faith to football, from politics to the arts and media.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 583 )
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In Defence of the BBC
The highlight of the annual Edinburgh International Television Festival is almost always the MacTaggart Memorial Lecture. The 2015 lecture was delivered by... Read more
Posted on 30 August 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Getting Dirty
This is the script of this morning's Pause for Thought on the Chris Evans Show on BBC Radio 2 from Chewton Glen. Twelve couples will be driving the twelve... Read more
Posted on 27 August 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Songs of Praise from Calais
So, the BBC is being hounded again as if the producers are leftie, hand-wringing imbeciles. Songs of Praise is coming from Calais, and some people don't like it... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Shopping, Learning and Scapegoating
Five days into August already and still haven’t got through a single one of the books lined up for the catch-up month. Oh well. Read more
Posted on 05 August 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Curiosity
This is the text of this morning's Pause for Thought on the Chris Evans Show on BBC Radio 2 with Brian Cox, John Lloyd, Rebecca Front and Nerina Pallot in the... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Is Your Love Big Enough?
This is the script of this morning's Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans Show with Sara Cox and guests: Gabby Logan, Josh Gad and Lianne LaHavas. Read more
Posted on 24 July 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Earthing the Church in West Yorkshire and the Dales
This is the text of my Presidential Address to the third and final Diocesan Synod of this new diocese held in Harrogate on Saturday 18 July 2015:This is... Read more
Posted on 18 July 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Ten Years After 7/7
This article was published today in the Yorkshire Post.I remember 7 July 2005 very clearly.I was in my office in Croydon when a friend phoned to say she couldn'... Read more
Posted on 04 July 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Violence and the Future
This is the text of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:The Dalai Lama was at Glastonbury yesterday, but not for the music. Twic... Read more
Posted on 29 June 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Has the World Gone Mad?
This is the script of this morning's Thought for the day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme:Recently I was in Stuttgart and took part in a two-hour discussion wit... Read more
Posted on 22 June 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
A New Bishop of Richmond
It has been announced this morning that the Venerable Paul Slater, currently Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven, is to be the Bishop of Richmond in the Diocese o... Read more
Posted on 18 June 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
The World is Going Mad
How things have changed.It is a week ago that I headed off to Stuttgart for the Kirchentag – the amazing conference put on across a German city every two... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
First Speech in the House of Lords
This is the text of my maiden speech – for better or worse – in the House of Lords this afternoon. It should be viewable here. Read more
Posted on 01 June 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
When Things Go Wrong…
This is the text of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Show – with Chris just having returned from the Monaco Grand Prix:Well, there ... Read more
Posted on 27 May 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
The Best of Religious Broadcasting
Tomorrow evening I will be chairing the 2015 Sandford St Martin Awards ceremony at Lambeth Palace. These annual awards are prestigious and pull in some amazing... Read more
Posted on 26 May 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Grief and Forgiveness
This is the text of this morning's Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme:Prince Charles in IrelandPrince Charles's speeches in Ireland this week... Read more
Posted on 21 May 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Post-election Blues
Well, if we had any suspicion about polls before, we certainly do now. And, if we needed any confirmation that politicians should tell us the truth and not... Read more
Posted on 10 May 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
General Election 2015
I led a clergy study day in Leeds this week on the theme 'Theology of Hope'. I wanted to help us think about our ministry in terms opened up by the theologians... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
First Birthday
Today the Diocese of West Yorkshire & the Dales (Leeds) is one year old. The three historic dioceses of Bradford, Ripon & Leeds and Wakefield were dissolved on... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Where the Sun (still) Don’t Shine
A couple of days ago Katie Hopkins wrote a piece in the Sun newspaper in which she called migrants on the Mediterranean “cockroaches”. The Sun saw fit to publis... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2015 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY