Bruce Charlton's Notions

The rarity of British telephones in the 1960s and 70s is evident from their four digit numbers The strangest thing about British life about ...

My understanding is that we can perhaps see (currently) an example of the only great national leader of this world era having lost-grip; suc...

It may seem strange that so many people nowadays get angry at talk about resurrected eternal life in Heaven.  Why should Heaven talk make th...

In my readings and explorings, I come across people who understand the totalitarian reality of the West (and Geopolitics, generally) and who...

Over at The Notion Club Papers blog, I review the two-volume History of the Hobbit by John D Rateliff , from 2007.  It is highly recommende...

Just an observation that my brother and I discussed recently - without any exception that I can think of - US comedy sketches always go on f...

I have commented before about my dismay at AI-dolatry among so many self-identified Christians - specifically their failure to recognise an...

A lot of linguistic change is down to sheer ignorance - like the fact that disinterested (meaning impartial) is nowadays nearly-always used...

It was Owen Barfield who defined   Original Participation - characteristic of young childhood and the early states of Mankind's devel...

Nightmare fuel for kids I have already posted on the subject of historical Giants in relation to the British Isles - according to some clas...

CS Lewis's demonic supervisor Screwtape is depicted as being strategically-motivated by damnation of humans; while the junior demon Wor...

The commonly expressed view that one needs Faith in order to be a Christian, is a problem!  First, is the Faith-Belief double-bind : The bin...

I have found Owen Barfield's concept of "participation" - as expounded in Saving the Appearances - to be a deep and fertile ...

Pride and despair are sins - which is to say, all of both must voluntarily be relinquished, if we are to be fitted for Heaven.  Pride is thi...

Celeborn reacts to being told his original name... Over at my Notion Club Papers blog; I discuss how Tolkien's un-matched ability at na...

When I first encountered The lore and language of schoolchildren , I was in my early twenties and beginning feel a solidification and increa...

As a long-term serial Apple owner, I could not resist their latest product.  One problem with being an Apple user is that one's expensiv...

I am very struck by the historically-recorded lives of people who were (to some genuine extent) Prophets, and who also went-on to found a ch...

I have often argued, in recent years, that the key instruction in the IV Gospel is to "follow" Jesus , and that the best encapsula...

If the verities of our spiritual life are things like our-selves and God and divine creation; then by contrast politics is ultimately arbitr...

A big, maybe lethal, problem with almost all of Christian theology, is the absolute conviction that there can be nothing new under the sun. ...