Bruce Charlton's Notions

Saint Patrick magically duels a Druid In the Roman and post-Roman era; the early Christian missionaries to the British Isles were highly suc...

To become a Christian is to climb a ladder ; but after we have arrived at Christianity, we should kick away the ladder .  Christianity is  N...

This is the creativity of ecstatic engagement -  which is valid regardless of its communication or appreciation  I have been re-engaging wit...

My mother, who (in stark contrast to her eldest child) was a wonderful housekeeper; used often to say to me - in an extremity of exasperatio...

Most Christian theologians through history have made the big mistake of conflating (in some theoretical/ mystical way) God the Creator with ...

Each person's life has "meaning" - and that meaning is related to divine purpose.  I think this is quite clear, if you know wh...

The title says it all, pretty much.  Christians should altogether stop saying "heathen" or "pagan" - since nowadays they...

  Having seen it at the cinema on release; I re-watched DreamWorks  The Boss Baby (2017) yesterday, and really enjoyed it - even more than...

I suggest it is impossible not to enjoy this video of a young woman clog dancing in a barn , accompanied by virtuoso fiddle and shoe-taps.  ...

Religions, as we know them, emerged in the era of Medieval consciousness   - which was a millennia-long transition between the immersive pas...

We all begin our lives in the state of immersive, spontaneous, initially un-conscious Original Participation - which was, pretty much, the c...

Meeting Jesus in a dream... What does it mean, how should we understand it?  I suppose that - for a Christian to have strong faith - he need...

Theoretically, there is no target so easy to hit as a plane approaching directly head on; in practice, it never worked out that way.  In the...

  I noticed this on the (interminable, clearly maliciously-motivated) roadworks on the Great North Road; and I thought:  "Who the dicke...

The latest global Litmus Test (aka the most recent Establishment agenda theme) is playing-out negatively and for evil - as any change must,...

This passage is  quoted in 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould - and also  Glenn Gould. Hereafter . ELYSE MACH: I’d like to ask: Do you believ...

Since the creator is a personal and good God who loves us; it seems to make sense that we would be born into this world with the kind of ass...

I often dip-into the writings of John Michell - who had a truly delightful ability to evoke an imaginative and romantic vision of the past;...

Its a sad, but inevitable, fact that almost all of Christian theology - is merely defensive parroting .  Which is to say that the discourse ...