Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 599 )

• Sea Shanties

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on Zoe Ball’s BBC Radio 2 breakfast show:I grew up in Liverpool, by the sea. Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Learning Maths

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on Zoe Ball’s breakfast show on BBC Radio 2:There’s nothing quite like a ten year old looking at you as i... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Words and Music

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on the morning after the Inauguration of President Joe Biden and... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• White Lines

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.Before the latest lockdown I watched a man painting white lines in a... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• American Coup?

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, written late last night.To be surprised by events in Washington is... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2021 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Christmas (Yorkshire Post)

  This is an article commissioned by the Yorkshire Post and published today.Last year my wife and I went to Germany where I conducted the marriage of two young... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Waiting

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on the Zoe Ball Show on BBC Radio 4.When I was a kid I found December a hard month. Waiting for... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• In My Dreams

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2 with Zoe Ball:I don’t know about you, but I just find it impossible to read while listenin... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Advent

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Show:Good news! In only four weeks the days start getting longer again. The... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• For Such a Time as This

  This is the text of my Presidential Address to the Leeds Diocesan Synod which was, for the second time, conducted online.One of the most beautiful cities in... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Body, Mind and Spirit

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Show as Joe Wicks was about to begin his 24 hour PE workout to raise cash for... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Rule of Law (again)

  I noticed I hadn’t published the text of my speech on 26 October at Second Reading of the internal Market Bill, so here goes. The speech at Committee... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Rule of Law

  This is the text of a speech I made in the Internal Market Bill (Committee stage) debate in the House of Lords last night. Hansard made sense of some of my... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• A Team of Rivals

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme as the uncertainty over the US presidential election continues. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Wounds and Scars

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on the anniversary of the Aberfan disaster in 1966.Some things we see... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Internal Market Bill

  This is the script of my speech in the House of Lords today in the Second Reading debate on the Internal Market Bill. I was the 21st speaker out of 115. Others... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Solidarity

  

  While staying with a friend in Basel once I visited the home of the late Protestant theologian Karl Barth. In the basement, where his personal library is kept, ... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Ostalgie

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.What does it feel like when the shape of your world changes overnight... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Hands Up!

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Breakfast Show with Zoe Ball:I had a chat with a mate recently when he was facing a... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• This is the Text of My Presidential Address to the Dioces...

  This is the text of my Presidential Address to the Diocese of Leeds Diocesan Synod on Zoom on Saturday 26 September 2020: We meet today in the name of God,... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY