Bruce Charlton's Notions

Faith is usually understood to mean something like wishful thinking - "It is so because I want it so"... Faith is contrasted with ...

If it is correct to say, as I do, that this mortal life was created for a reason; then if that reason is rejected, it must tend to render ou...

The New Testament is trying to make sense of Jesus, and all would-be Christians need to do the same. First, they need to understand why Go...

When God is known as a person who has made and is making creation, we can love him or not; and that is the same kind of love we may know fro...

We can only Join Heaven, because it is not a place or a state of mind but a creative endeavour. To be in Heaven is to be joined in this crea...

Backwell Hill House , where William Arkle and family, friends and many animals lived in the 1970s - an ex- Claretian novitaite house, th...

What would be best; is a gut-level emotional demand for an urgent bureaucratic response - which entails getting people to 'demand' ...

Perhaps the most obvious fruits of repentance and awakening would be public honesty - in small things as much as large. It would be startlin...

As grown-up people, we need to overcome groupishness and passive acceptance of external sources of authority - and this applies to Christian...

These are the three best-known British folk heroes, and each has a different archetypal quality. Arthur is the earliest - dating from the ...

It is when evil is consented that it does spiritual damage . If evil entities torment people without their consent, the person may be spir...

When things are coming to a point - there is In Reality no neutral ground. One is either For or Against God, the Good and Divine Creation...

Evil is very powerful and pervasive; but must be invited-within if evil is to damage our souls. Otherwise, we can grow and develop by our in...

In a famous essay, CS Lewis described a particularly insidious rhetorical trick which is called Bulverism . By Bulverism he meant the dev...

I was always puzzled by the submissive flaccidity of modern Western societies: the way that - although they live to maximise gratification a...

One of William Arkle's core insights is that - in normal, everyday life - people act from a multitude of false selves. The true self, w...

I've been reading Rudolf Steiner and listening to his ideas being expounded; and realise that a fundamental problem is that Steiner tend...

The Norman invasion was the greatest catastophe in the history of England (and of the British Isles); because the Normans (for all their hig...

There is a Nebby Nurse type, to use some Geordie dialect. Most aren't nurses, most nurses aren't nebby (poking their nebs/ noses...

All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility...

We live in an inverted world when it comes to the arts and entertainment - as I mentioned recently - where a superbly-crafted, thought-p...