An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
It is finally unleashed!!!! Mouse currently follows around 70 people in this Twitter stream, including one Archbishop (John Sentamu) and nine bishops (Alan Wilson, David Hamid, David Rossdale, David Tomson, Lee Rayfield, Mike Hill, Nick Baines, Pete Broadbent and Steven Croft). Mouse provides his readers with an occasional top 10 tweeters in the Twurch, based on [...] Rating: 0.0/ 10...
The Church Mouse (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... and nine bishops (Alan Wilson, David Hamid, David Rossdale, David Tomson, Lee Rayfield, Mike Hill, Nick Baines, Pete Broadbent and Steven Croft). Mouse provides his readers with an occasional top 10 tweeters in the Twurch, based on statistics from Twitter Gradr. Then Mouse had an idea. The thing about the sidebar widget is that it is not very engaging. It does not really let you get...
An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sang my first Christmas Carols this year at the Tuesday Lunches Christmas Meal, the last ever outing of our lunch club that has been going for over two decades. Although our first offering completely failed the Nick Baines orthodoxy test, once we had got past Away in a Manger and its completely unrealistic, “but little [...] Rating: 0.0/ 10 (0 votes cast)
mediawatchwatch.org.uk (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Bishops! They’re the gift that just keeps giving. The latest Right Rev to enter the limelight is Bishop Nick Baines of Croydon. He has just released a pamphlet entitled Why Wish You a Merry Christmas', in which he bemoans that some of the carols sung at during this festive season do not reflect the reality of [...]
St. Aidan to Abbey Manor (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Dave Walker has info on the 'Feeding of the 5000' event in Trafalgar Square, attempting to feed 5000 people on food thrown away by supermarkets. 'Regulation pop at journalists by bloggers' corner: Mark Pack suspects that Christian media outlets are perpetuating the 'Winterval' story long since the facts have depart. Meanwhile Nick Baines has a robust response to mainstream press treatment...
Graham Pointer's Blog (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
I was amused by the reaction of readers in Sunday Telegraph to the accurate comments about Christmas Carols by Nick Baines, Bishop of Croydon. Maybe he has learned his lesson and this will be the last time he criticises any aspect of Churchianity.
Catholic and Loving it! (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
I'm fairly sure I first heard this criticism from the lips of Fr Fun a few years ago but I've heard it a few times since and now the Bishop of Croydon Nick Baines (Anglican - so he's no more a Bishop than I am) asks of Away in ...
Beyond the brook... (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
I was listening to an interview the other day with the Bishop of Croydon whilst driving my daughter to school. The Rt Rev Nick Baines was defending his book 'Why Wish You a Merry Christmas?' (This book sets out to return the Christmas story to "its heart") In the book, Baines says "most carols are OK", and accepts they have a difficult task. "They try,...
Graham Pointer's Blog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The clue is in the name of the day- Christ mas. Nick Baines, the Suffragan Bishop of Croydon in the Diocese of Southwark, is under criticism for being right about Christmas. His recent concern is that many traditional ( i.e. 19th century) carols are theological nonsense, reducing the events at Bethlehem to just one more thing, alongside the "panto and fairy stories". If we sing...
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... who might see the greeting “happy Christmas” as an insult. The Bishop of Croydon, the Rt Rev Nick Baines, wrote that the language used in some traditional carols risks turning the nativity into “just one more story alongside the panto and fairy stories”. In a letter sent to every parish in the diocese of Hereford this month, Bishop Magowan wrote: “There is a story of a church carol...
Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The Bishop of Croydon, the Right Reverend Nick Baines, is an intelligent and rational man. He’s had a good rational and intelligent look at some long cherished Christmas carols and concluded that they are nonsense; that they turn Jesus into a fantasy, into a Father Christmas figure, and that they are an embarrassment to sing. Just exactly who they embarrass beyond the Bishop I’m...
The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
We heard Bishop Nick Baines on the radio the other day talking about his book, and being accused of wanting to ban carols etc. And thought he did a very good job of talking about the joy of Christmas and explaining that he wasn't going to ban anything. Obviously it was early, and we were tired from dealing with the fallout from Young Keith's exploits - but we missed what the woman who...
