Links and Things (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Nick Baines blogs powerfully on the subject:The church exists for the sake of the world – not for the sake of the purity of the church.I write as someone who, at times, has seriously considered the Roman option - though not for the reasons which many are now considering! (there, I bet that shocked some readers!)
Nouslife (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Nck Baines made some astute observations in the run-up to the Tory conference last week. It's here: You can bank on it � Nick Baines’s Blog. And this is something that I want to amen heartily: "his nettle still appears not to have been grasped. We are afraid to impose limits – even when ‘we’ own the banks by virtue of having bailed them out of...
maggi dawn (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Further to my previous post, which picked up a brief news item by Ekklesia and a response by Nick Baines, here's a much longer and informative paper about Thought for the Day that lay behind the Ekklesia news item. Written by Lizzie Clifford, a graduate of the University of Cambridge, it covers the history and origins of Thought for the Day, recent changes and suggestions, current debate,...
maggi dawn (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Robert Crumb talks about his new comic-strip Genesis, saying that it is a multi-layered text, full of imaginative possibilities. Nick Baines, Bishop of Croydon says on the piece that it teases the imagination. I'm not sure that Crumb's work teases so much as leaves nothing to the imagination, but I like Baines's other comment - that in Church congregations listen to these outrageous...
The Church Mouse (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... is likely to go down like a lead balloon amongst those who see Halloween as a bit of fun. Bishop Nick Baines gives some sage advice in his blog today. He reminds us that Halloween is "Halloween is a Christian festival that forces escapists to take seriously human mortality and questions of the meaning of death and beyond." Halloween has its roots in a number of festivals...
The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Matt Wardman lays out a very fine defense of what another blogger calls "Principled Anonymoust Blogging": (This article has been developed from a comment I left on Nick Baines’ blog , where there was a good debate about the rights and wrongs of anonymous blogging.) Good Reasons for pseudonymous blogging I think the right of bloggers to post anonymously/pseudonymously is...
Online Journalism Blog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
(This article has been developed from a comment I left on Nick Baines' blog , where there was a good debate about the rights and wrongs of anonymous blogging.) Good Reasons for pseudonymous blogging I think the right of bloggers to post anonymously/pseudonymously is important, for a number of reasons, but I like the term coined by Nick - "principled anonymous blogging"....
The Wardman Wire (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
(This article has been developed from a comment I left on Nick Baines' blog , where there was a good debate about the rights and wrongs of anonymous blogging.) Good Reasons for pseudonymous blogging I think the right of bloggers to post anonymously/pseudonymously is important, for a number of reasons, but I like the term coined by Nick - "principled anonymous blogging"....
The Church Mouse (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... reconsider their own ideas of what the text is saying. The book has impressed the likes of Bishop Nick Baines , and Mouse will be putting it on his Christmas list.
Clayboy (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Well, graphic everything actually since it’s Genesis the graphic novel by Robert Crumb. Early newspaper reports seem to be trying to stir controversy following the publisher’s spin. Bishop Nick Baines offers the press the sort of response that will disappoint them: sane about the reality of Genesis and its content. Oh, yes, because the graphic sex [...]
Church Times Blog (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Cartoonist Robert Crumb has illustrated the book of Genesis and the book of his drawings is released today in the US. Bishop of Croydon, Nick Baines is generally impressed, saying that "the text of Genesis has been stuck to faithfully and taken seriously" ( The Genesis of a Crumb ). The Times talked to Nick Baines among others. See Robert Crumb...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... of the work. "I didn't think it was satire," said the Bishop of Croydon, the Rt Rev Nick Baines. "He set out to say; 'this is important, fundamental myth' and it seems to me he's done a good job." "Biblical sex row over explicit illustrated Book of Genesis" (The Telegraph) The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (Amazon) Previously:Exclusive sneak...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... of the work. "I didn't think it was satire," said the Bishop of Croydon, the Rt Rev Nick Baines. "He set out to say; 'this is important, fundamental myth' and it seems to me he's done a good job." "Biblical sex row over explicit illustrated Book of Genesis" (The Telegraph) The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (Amazon) Previously:Exclusive sneak...
Thinking Anglicans (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
There has been some public debate recently about the BBC Radio 4 morning slot Though for the Day. The BBC Trust will soon respond to various charges made against it by supporters of secularism and humanism. Nick Baines reported on...
The Church Mouse (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... a bus stop somewhere near your church. Mouse likes the image (and notes that top blogging bishop Nick Baines, who blogged on the advert last week, is on the ChurchAds.net advisory panel). As for Mouse, he has a little Christmas project on the go. All will be revealed soon.
