Nick Baines
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Anglican Bishop of Leeds, broadcaster, writer & blogger ()
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The question now is: do we accept being lied to, patronised and treated by a PM as mugs? The moral question is not for Cummings - it is for PM and ministers/MPs who find this behaviour acceptable. What are we to teach our children? (I ask as a responsible father.)
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I’m a bit busy.
OK, hypothetical: can a Lord Spiritual be appointed to Cabinet? Because I quite fancy
@nickbaines
, Bishop of Leeds, for the Home Office.
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As I told a taxi driver this morning, I begin each day with the words of Jesus’s friends to Bartimaeus (the blind beggar): “Take heart. Get up. He is calling you.” Not a new year resolution exactly, but words to heed.
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Whichever party gets into government today, we must demand of them honesty, integrity and truthfulness. The lying has to stop.
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“I understand why people are confused.” So, it is our fault that we are too dim to have understood “Stay at home”.
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Can’t believe the insanity of most criticism of
@JustinWelby
this morning. Indicates he got it right. Whose cages got rattled?
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Stop tweeting?
Whatever the United States can do to help out in London and the U. K., we will be there - WE ARE WITH YOU. GOD BLESS!
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Dad died this morning. He will rest in peace and rise in glory. A remarkable man.
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Totally unacceptable. But, more to the point, wrong and dangerous.
Can we have a statement that C of E doesn’t think the language used by the Abp of Nigeria is acceptable? ‘The deadly ‘virus’ of homosexuality has infiltrated...This is likened to a Yeast that should be urgently and radically expunged and excised lest it affects the whole dough’
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Cleared diary for this week and now in London for
@UKHouseofLords
. Challenging days ahead.
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Do any of these career-merchants have the first idea of how shambolic, incompetent and laughable we have looked since the referendum to those who live beyond our small islands? It is an embarrassment ... and now a dangerous political farce.
#brexit
#BorisJohnson
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Try again! CHRIST IS RISEN! Didn’t mean to surprise Chris.
Alleluia! Chris is risen! Not ‘end of’, but ‘beginning’. Christians are drawn by hope, not driven by fear.
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Room for Ian Botham, but not Sentamu - for scrutiny of legislation? Shocking.
If Number 10 wants Sentamu out of the House of Lords, it should have the guts to say so. Pretending the problem is "the size of the House", when it's found room for the PM's drinking buddies, siblings, political allies and favourite cricketers, won't wash.
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Very, very sad news. A giant has gone. Condolences to our Jewish friends, but way beyond, too.
Baruch Dayan Ha’Emet. It with the deepest sadness that we regret to inform you that Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (HaRav Ya’akov Zvi ben David Arieh z’’l) passed away early this morning, Saturday 7th November 2020 (Shabbat Kodesh 20th MarCheshvan 5781).
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So sorry to hear that Barry Cryer has died. Every time he called he would tell me a joke he knew I could never use in church. RIP
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Wonderful consecration of
@revdbev
at York Minster this morning. Emerged into the sun and now she belongs to
@LivDiocese
who will love her. God bless Bev and thanks for the gift you were to
@LeedsCofE
.
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I did it out of duty - just to keep my granddaughter happy.
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Presumably all ministers’ resignation letters from
@BorisJohnson
government will now be re-published as reminder? Corrupt character changed - holidaying while UK suffers crisis partly of his making? During a sitting parliament? Nothing left other than power for power’s sake.
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Powerful and moving day. The power of servant leadership celebrated. And pitch perfect. Amazing by
@bbcstudios
, too.
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Corruption in the UK
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The EU (Withdrawal) Bill: debate in the House of Lords
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Re-reading Orwell and recalled: “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Time to get off the train.
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Thought for the Day
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Got vaccinated yesterday despite first going to the wrong place. Amazingly friendly and efficient. (The medical centre, not me.)
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Zelensky is now the model of moral and political leadership against which all others will be judged.
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Praying in my chapel this morning for
@LeedsCofE
, clergy and people; for all in difficulty or fear. The light breaks in and the darkness does not have the last word.
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2022. Christians are drawn by hope, not driven by fear or fatalism. That hope is in the person of God, not in a formula for success. Happy and hopeful new year.
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Empty Saturday. When the world has fallen apart. You wake up and know it is real. It is not the end, but you don’t know that yet. Got to be lived through - no quick escape.
#Easter
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Excellent. Other supermarkets to follow?
Confirmed as true by Aldi.
So let's get the word out.
And, come on the rest of the supermarkets, do your bit too!
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Doing
#ThoughtForTheDay
on
@BBCr4today
in the morning around 07.45. Not much going on in the world at the moment, though.
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We won’t get fooled again: Trump, Charlottesville and the American Dream
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Happy Christmas! Now evening, but Good News for all time.
#ChristmasMeans
we are drawn by hope, not driven by fear.
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Doing my dad’s funeral in Liverpool tomorrow, so leaving tweeting for a bit. Probably.
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Just seen weather forecast : “yellow warning of snow”. Better than “warning of yellow snow”.
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I owe him such a debt - culturally, spiritually, intellectually. So sad, and a massive loss to the country.
Very, very sad news. A giant has gone. Condolences to our Jewish friends, but way beyond, too.
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The beginning of the corruption of the rule of law. Totally irresponsible journalism.
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I think you will find Anglican bishops and clergy out in the streets now. They are not waiting.
Christian leaders: if you were waiting for your signal to speak out strongly and show clear moral leadership against hate, this is it.
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"one of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons."
@ShashiTharoor
on British Empire. Discuss.
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Banning the Lord’s Prayer from cinemas is nonsense on stilts
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Alleluia! Chris is risen! Not ‘end of’, but ‘beginning’. Christians are drawn by hope, not driven by fear.
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Happy Easter! Death too small for a God who is free. So, we are drawn by hope, not driven by fear.
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Actually meant ‘inanity’, but my phone knew better.
Can’t believe the insanity of most criticism of
@JustinWelby
this morning. Indicates he got it right. Whose cages got rattled?
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Police, parliamentary staff and emergency services are brilliant.
@wabbey
superb too. Shock, but calm everywhere. Prayers for all affected.
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@ShervingtonD
She is right, though. Dead people don’t come back to life again. That would be resuscitation. Christians believe that “God raised Christ from the dead” - which is different.
#Resurrection
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The underlying question for our culture: does it matter that a government - any government - breaks its word?
Today’s announcement to cut the aid budget is the wrong decision at the wrong time. Not only does it break promises we have made, it undermines that fundamental interconnectedness we have as a global community. We may make a financial saving. But we are all poorer as a result.
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Regardless of political commitments, how can anyone think it is practically possible for a line to be drawn after
#ConfidenceVote
result in which 42% MPs don’t have confidence in their leader.
#fantasy
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Huge thanks for tweets and prayers following my dad’s death yesterday. Can’t reply to them all, but enormously grateful.
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Appears to have been a prescient question. Tragic to have to ask it.
"If standards in public life are being upheld, what could we expect to see if public ethics were being corrupted and standards weren't being upheld?" -
@nickbaines
asks in the House of Lords this afternoon.
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Prayers for our brothers and sisters in Sri Lanka with whom
@LeedsCofE
has been linked for decades. They are no strangers to violence - and they are no strangers to this gospel of resurrection hope.
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Happy Christmas to one and all! “God surprises earth with heaven, coming here on Christmas Day.” (John Bell)
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And Tories and Crossbenchers. And that is the job of the Lords - to scrutinise and improve. Why do you deliberately mislead?
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Is it true that in the new foreword to the Ministerial Code
#PM
refers to “my” ministers? They are “HMQ’s” ministers - Ministers of the Crown.
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I probably would have phrased it differently, but the sentiment would be the same.
I’m from Liverpool. I was a teenager in Liverpool in the 1980s.
Derek Hatton’s Liverpool.
I’ll saw my own dick off with a rusty breadknife before I vote for a party that welcomes that twat back in with open arms.
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@alicewhalley
@simonsarmiento
The reality is that churches are stuck into their communities, running foodbanks, caring for people on the margins, but not banging on about it. Just because people don’t tweet doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
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Is sorting out
#AlevelResults
mess as much of a “moral duty” as getting children back to school next month? Algorithm not responsible - people who choose/use it are.
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Just back from vigil for
#JoCox
at Birstall. Thanks to all who came. Thanks for media being sensitive.
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@frjonathanbish
@simonsarmiento
I don’t think I have ever said we should learn/speak the language of Radio 2 alone. I have said we need to learn/speak a multiplicity of languages: R4, R2, R3, hip hop, 5Live, indie, etc. The error is thinking that one language is adequate for all interlocutors.
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I agree with Giles. But, we won’t.
I think we should consider it an honour and badge of pride to welcome as many refugees and asylum seekers as we can. And then some more.
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#hope16
@LeedsCofE
clergy conference.
@ProfBrianCox
with Prof David Wilkinson & 400 clergy. Great day.
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Language and leadership
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This the problem - no answers. Honesty might be unpleasant, but we would at least be treated like adults.
This exchange between
@AndrewMarr9
and
@theresa_may
needs reading
(via
@MarrShow
,
@MichaelPDeacon
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Last day of my fifties. With family. Home tomorrow. Concerned about
#NazaninZaghariRatcliffe
& shamelessness of Gove and Johnson.
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Who funds you?
The Archbishop seems to have forgotten Jesus' command to ‘render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and unto God what is God’s’. He should stick to his important theological work and keep out of politics!
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“Good worship ... takes us beyond the urge to explain and manage, and leads us to take the time we need to open up to the endless richness of divine life that has been offered to us through the life and death and resurrection of Jesus” (Rowan Williams)
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