Bruce Charlton's Notions

The problem of entropy is one that presses upon us the average mortal life perhaps more strongly than evil.  By "entropy" I mean t...

Long-term (six year plus) readers will know of my recurrent "obsession" with the subject of evil; and the nature and definition of...

Morality does not derive from Laws.  Morality derives from God: from the nature, purposes, and methods of God; as manifested in divine creat...

If there is one area of life in which discussion is futile, it is when trying to persuade a Moral Legalist in a situation where somebody ha...

BBC Radio Brains Trust , 1941 - this responded to questions sent-in by listeners. I think I recognize CEM Joad second from the left, and (?)...

If, in a simplified way, if salvation is the purpose of this mortal life, then theosis is the meaning of it. In other words: theosis - i.e. ...

One of the most misleading aspects of hearing tell of high the experience of spiritual exaltation, is that such high states have been paid-f...

The Voyage of St Brandon - by Edward Reginald Frampton Over at the Notion Club Papers blog , I argue that  The Sea Bell poem is Not autobi...

For the handful of interested readers; I have just posted a new tranche of posts on the blog Bruce Charlton on Music .    I am still emergin...

Dylan Thomas I was introduced to the work of Dylan Thomas at exactly the right moment - which was that post-Lord of the Rings era, after I f...

People are always trying to explain "the problem" of Christian churches (and indeed all types of church) in terms of some specific...

My conclusion is that benefits of Not getting what we want, only happen if we are capable of learning from our life experience.  The trouble...

Because of the development of human consciousness , there is necessarily a generational effect in terms of the nature and possibilities when...

Britain Burning Now! - spontaneous fires break-out across the nation  The CO2 "Global Warmist" Climate agenda may be a dubious, i...

Before I became a Christian - and on the basis mainly of my academic work in biology - I was convinced that there was a long-term Direction ...

It has long been recognized in some circles that, in a deep sense, nearly all serious- and real-Christians nowadays are converts .  They hav...

As sung by The Yetties ( And by me ) Way down on our farm we are right up to date,  For mechanisation's the byword of late  For every ta...

It's a great plan!  Let's spend ever more and yet more time/ energy/ resources on locating the sins of other-people , and then loudl...

Reading Laeth's latest aphorisms , he reminded me of a 2019 post from Wm Jas Tychonievich about whether or not the Mormon prophet Josep...

I have often heard it emphasised by Christians how remarkable, how shocking, it was that God was incarnated as a little baby, lived, suffere...

Today's Northumbrian Church Project visit was St Andrew's Bolam; which is  magicfully atmospheric .  It includes a Saxon tower, mos...