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Peace, love and understanding - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

One of the best bits in the film Lost in Translation is when Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson end up doing karaoke in a Tokyo bar. Bill Murray belts out Elvis Costello’s What’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding? I love the film and I love that scene.

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Added by Guest Blogs on May 28, 2012 at 10:12 — No Comments

Sex, women and Eurovision - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

Conversations with journalists often involves challenging the suggestion that the Church of England spends all its time in conflict over sex and women. If 5% of what we talk about forms 95% of media coverage about us and this shapes 100% of popular perception about the church’s preoccupation, no…

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Excellent broadcasting (again) - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

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Added by Guest Blogs on May 24, 2012 at 9:30 — No Comments

Affirming public service - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

This morning I preached at the Civic Service in Bradford Cathedral to mark the end on the Lord Mayor’s year in office. This enabled the Lord Mayor, Naveeda Ikram – the first Muslim woman Lord Mayor in the country – to reflect publicly on her year. It was a long service…

I wanted to take…

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Added by Guest Blogs on May 21, 2012 at 9:30 — 1 Comment

Circles - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

1. Having led a company that assumed for itself the authority to hound other people and call for heads to roll, Rebekah Brooksnow expresses indignation that lawyers dare to…

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Added by Guest Blogs on May 17, 2012 at 14:04 — No Comments

I can’t stop loving you - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

I’ve just been doing Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2′s Chris Evans Show. I had a tip-off that Engelbert…
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Added by Guest Blogs on May 11, 2012 at 15:41 — No Comments

A charge - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

Every Church of England parish has churchwardens. They are the bishop’s officers in the parish (which sounds worse than it is). They are elected each year at the Annual Parochial Church Meetings and then have to be ‘admitted’ at a Visitation by the Archdeacon and the Registrar. However, the…

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Added by Guest Blogs on May 9, 2012 at 15:54 — No Comments

Open arms, closed pockets - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

Struggling through a streaming cold and muzzy head to write a lecture for this coming Wednesday (on Being Confident in an Uncertain World), I was easily distracted by the glories of Twitter. I caught a link which, in the context of all the political upheavals going on around us, stood…

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Added by Guest Blogs on May 8, 2012 at 12:38 — No Comments

Three cheers - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

Too much going on and not much time for posting here. Even though by the middle of this month my blog will have had one million hits in two and a half years – how weird is that? Anyway,…

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Added by Guest Blogs on May 8, 2012 at 12:34 — No Comments

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