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

Richard Littledale is a Baptist minister in Middlesex and has built a following on his blog,…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 31, 2011 at 11:30 — No Comments

Giles Frazzled - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

When every day is full of back-to-back meetings and events it is not easy either to keep up with what’s going on in the world or to write blog posts. Add to that a chest infection, the almost total loss of my voice and the fed up feeling that goes with it and blog silence becomes understandable.…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 31, 2011 at 11:12 — No Comments

Irrational rationalists? - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

The world appears a bit weird when Man Utd lose 6-1 at home to Man City. Wonderful (says the Scouser who is worried that two Manchester clubs now rule the Premiership).

But, more interesting is the response by atheist academic philosopher…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 24, 2011 at 11:38 — No Comments

Gaddafi’s corpse and the rule of law - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

The body of Muammar Gaddafi is in cold-storage in Misrata. It is unclear how exactly he died because different people keep giving different accounts of his capture and death. What we do know is that people are queuing…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 24, 2011 at 11:37 — No Comments

Writing for radio - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

During an address to nearly 500 people a couple of weeks ago I spoke about curiosity as a key to the Kingdom of God. What I meant by this is that Christian discipleship (it seems to me) has to be driven by curiosity about Jesus…

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Low expectations - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

On the long and tedious journey back from Dresden to Bradford I got the train to Berlin Hauptbahnhof and then went over the road for the bus to Tegel airport. The buses run every six minutes. Which is useless efficiency if they are all full, you can’t get on and you have a deadline for catching…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 17, 2011 at 10:06 — No Comments

From a distance - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

The Archbishop of York preached at an ecumenical service in the Frauenkirche in Dresden this morning. This service marked the conclusion of the German celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Meissen Agreement in 1991 (obviously). It also marked the end of the Delegation…

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The unrivalled event - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

I am in Dresden for a Meissen Delegation Visit with the Archbishop of York until Sunday. I am the Anglican Co-chair of the Meissen Commission which handles relations between the EKD and the Church of England since 1991.…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 17, 2011 at 10:03 — No Comments

More speaky lingo - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

The languages debate continues. Following earlier discussions on this blog – especially in the light of recent press reports on a podcast I’d made –…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 14, 2011 at 9:38 — No Comments

Sudan – the hidden war - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

Isn’t it awful that when a crisis leaves the front pages of the newspapers we quickly forget the horrors that continue?

I have posted on Sudan and the dreadful persecution in South Kordofan. Today one of my clergy in Bradford got an email from a Christian leader in Northern Sudan and this…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 14, 2011 at 9:33 — No Comments

Meaningful chocolate - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

I know Christmas is coming, but Easter hasn’t quite disappeared yet.

Last Easter saw the launch of the Real Easter Egg – the UK’s first ever Easter egg to mention Jesus and tell the Easter story on the box. Produced by…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 14, 2011 at 9:30 — No Comments

An irrelevance - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

The utterly corrupt and very ex-Bishop of Harare, Nolbert Kunonga, has described the Archbishop of Canterbury as “an irrelevance” as Rowan Williams begins his visit to Zimbabwe. Just how deluded do you have to be to come out with something like that in the face of Zimbabwe’s…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 11, 2011 at 11:12 — No Comments

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

Being a disciple means – put simply – imitating someone else. I guess there must be disciples of Wayne Rooney. – in the sense that they look to him as some sort of a role model and justify their own behaviour according to his. Which is an interesting notion the morning after he was sent off…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 11, 2011 at 11:10 — No Comments

Jobs centred - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

Sad news that Apple founder and inspiration Steve Jobs has died. It will also be interesting to see how Apple adapts to a world without him.

The Guardian has published an address Jobs gave at Stanford…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 7, 2011 at 9:56 — No Comments

Better together - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

This evening I finished a set of meetings with leaders of faith communities in Bradford – where such relationships matter enormously.

A couple of weeks ago I spent an evening as the guest of the Hindus at their newest mandir. Next I met the Council of Mosques. Then, accompanied as usual by…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 7, 2011 at 9:54 — No Comments

Withering hypes - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

I need to confess my cultural ignorance. I have never read some of what are often called ‘the classics’. This deficit doesn’t usually make a massive difference, but, having now visited the wonderful Haworth – only a few miles from the wonderful Bradford – several times in the five months since we…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 4, 2011 at 9:55 — 1 Comment

Let’s speaky da lingo - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

Excellent news, if it is true. Apparently, Education Minister, Michael Gove, thinks that every child over the age of five should learn a foreign language in school.

Now we need to wait and learn more…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 3, 2011 at 10:55 — No Comments

It’s funny being funny - Nick Baines's blog - Musings of a restless bishop

Having been out of radio contact for the last three days (at a residential meeting at the utterly beautiful and wonderful Parcevall Hall in the Yorkshire Dales – no mobile signal and no accessible wi-fi), I re-emerge to…

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Added by Guest Blogs on October 3, 2011 at 10:53 — No Comments

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