Bruce Charlton's Notions

As a spiritual goal and method, seeking spiritual contacts with individual people is the best strategy - and superior to the use of abstrac...

From the movie Akenfield (1977) - a horse-drawn reaper binder - in action, from a distance; surely one of the most poetic of Mankind's ...

The question of "History" - that there is an objectively-true, evidenced account of the past: of how things came to be the way the...

I was reading a biography of Stevie Smith by Frances Spalding, and a chapter concerning her relationship to Christianity - by which was lar...

I have just finished reading Stevie Smith's "The Novel on Yellow Paper" - which ended badly in a narrative sense - but also be...

Someone who is on the side of God the Creator, and who desires to attain the salvation of Jesus Christ, must Proceed With Caution when it co...

Romanticism is A Fact of modern Man; such a powerful factor in the makeup of modern Man, that those who exclude or ignore the romantic in th...

Despite that this is a selfish blog, consisting of me thinking-in-writing some of the notions I get in the early morning; from time to time...

St Andrew's Church*, Bywell We have recently begun a project to visit old churches in Northumbria; starting by getting suggestions from ...

Considering that our life and world - and much of our social interaction - is underpinned and permeated with moral evaluations; we have a te...

Christian faith is - or should be - focused on resurrected eternal life in post-mortal Heaven ... So, not this moral life, not this earth an...

I have written before about the corrupting spiritual vortex that is  prepper survivalism ; where low-level people (such as you and me) engag...

Is it true that everything changes, and yet everything stays the same ?  It does seem to have a general truth, especially over the long term...

I have always found "Fog on the Barrow Downs" the least satisfying chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring .  Over at my  Notion Clu...

The world provides choices.  We must choose - and we can personally choose; or else we can accept external (societal, institutional) choices...

I see a very general problem; that is of people seeking generic experience, rather than particular and specific experience.  Consider the va...

Because spirit is primary: the material, the embodied, that which is perceived by the senses - is a kind of spirit.  Incarnation is indeed a...

A while back, there was a very enjoyable musical style called electro swing ; which led to a style of solo dancing (mainly for men) which is...

Inspired by reading the inspiring tale of the 1650 Newcastle Witch Trials  - a covertly-funded Tech start-up company have harnessed the burg...

The above beautiful pool is at Holystone in Coquetdale, Northumberland; and the legend has it that three thousand Northumbrians were baptize...

I just stumbled across a post of mine from 2018 on the (now stale) subject of Jordan Peterson ; in which I described him as an Antichrist f...