Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 603 )

• 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

• What’s Next?

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2.I think I need to watch more telly. Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Together?

  This is the text of an article I wrote for the Yorkshire Post on Saturday 19 September 2020.I have two images in my mind. One is the old BT commercial that... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• VJ Day

  This is the text of my article in the Yorkshire Post today to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of VJ Day.The 75th anniversary of VJ Day is not just a day for... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Seeing and Understanding

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:I am probably not alone in being haunted by film of the explosion in... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Art for Art’s Sake

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:One of the unexpected things I did during lockdown was watch the sort... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Together

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme:This Sunday sees the birthday of the National Health Service – a... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Stepping Out

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Show with Amok Rajan:I know this isn’t the place for confession, but I do have... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Like a Prayer

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Show:I am now on my tenth listen of Bob Dylan’s new album Rough and Rowdy Ways. Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Rough and Rowdy Ways

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Show:Well, I don’t know what you’re doing today, but I am busy waiting for... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Inglorious Empire?

  

  A couple of years ago I did a session at the Bradford Literature Festival with Professor Paul Rogers and Shashi Tharoor. I had never heard of Shashi Tharoor. Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Trinity and the Rest of Life

  

  Today is Trinity Sunday in the church’s calendar – part of Christians’ journey through the year, giving shape to the narrative of God’s engagement with people. Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Driven out

  

  It’s been an ‘interesting’ and revealing week.And now in the Christian journey we move on from Ascensiontide to Pentecost.See it from the perspective of... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• In-between Again

  

  It feels like we are living between times again. Lockdown is giving way to an easing of restrictions – now thrown into chaos by the hypocritical shambles of... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Shadowlands

  

  Lockdown means working back through the films I thought we’d seen often enough. The other impetus is that we have a young Austrian student friend living with... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Deep Wells?

  

  Lockdown is a challenge. But, for me it also allows space for some conversations that might usually get squeezed between meetings and then forgotten.Yesterday... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• VE Day

  

  This is the text of an article commissioned by the Yorkshire Post for today:Having grown up in a northern city that in my childhood still bore the violent... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2020 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY