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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General Synod: Ukraine
This is the text of my introductory speech on Friday 8 July 2022 to a debate on Ukraine. The text of the motion follows the script. Read more
Posted on 09 July 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Shaping a Future
This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the morning after the Boris Johnson signalled his intention to... Read more
Posted on 08 July 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Here We Go Again: Learning from History
This is the text of the 2022 annual lecture for the Council on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament (CCADD) of which I am a Vice-president. It was... Read more
Posted on 06 July 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Leeds Diocesan Synod
This is the text of my presidential address to the Leeds Diocesan Synod this morning.There’s really not a lot to talk about at the moment, is there? Read more
Posted on 18 June 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Platinum Jubilee
This is the basic text of the various sermons preached in Ripon, Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield at civic services for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee over the last... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Exile (on Main Street)
This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Show.Saturday was a bit of a nerve stretch, wasn’t it? Well, it was for me! Read more
Posted on 16 May 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Borderlands
This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought with Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2 (at the new earlier time of 07.15.Do you know what it’s like to live on the... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Easter 2022
This is the text of the sermon broadcast from Leeds Minster this morning on BBC1 television.John 20:1-18It was early and it was dark. And a woman stands... Read more
Posted on 17 April 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
The Leeds Loop
This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought with Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2 on the day they announced that September will see Radio 2 Live in Leeds.Did... Read more
Posted on 05 April 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Gestures of Hope
This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.I remember hearing the late great Leonard Cohen explain how he delved... Read more
Posted on 29 March 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Iconography
This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.They say that radio wins over television because the pictures are... Read more
Posted on 22 March 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Invasion of Ukraine
This is the text of an article, commissioned and written early this morning, and published in the Yorkshire Post just now.The Ukrainian national anthem begins:... Read more
Posted on 24 February 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Integrity
This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, following publication of Sue Gray’s update on her investigation into... Read more
Posted on 01 February 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Education
This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, guest-edited by footballer Raheem Sterling on themes of education... Read more
Posted on 29 December 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Christmas 2021
This is the text of my article in today’s Yorkshire Post.Nearly three thousand years ago a Middle Eastern poet wrote words that must have sounded like nonsense... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
I May Be Some Time
This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Breakfast Show.The house I live in in Leeds is a couple of hundred years old. Read more
Posted on 13 December 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
St Nicholas
This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2.I have always felt a bit deprived. I don’t have a middle... Read more
Posted on 06 December 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Learning to Wait
This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Breakfast Show (with Gary Davies in the chair). Read more
Posted on 29 November 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Thanksgiving
Today is Thanksgiving in the USA – the 400th celebration. I wrote this script for Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme while in the House of... Read more
Posted on 25 November 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
Each One Lost
This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. I had already written a different script that became inappropriate... Read more
Posted on 25 November 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY