Bruce Charlton's Notions

In the UK, at least, "pilgrimages" (including to "Recognized" Christian sites) have in recent decades become popular amo...

Every time the demon-serving Establishment come up with a new Litmus Test for The West, there are a lot of new fails that follow a standard...

Whatever you say or do: AI just keeps-on coming at you... I don't know whether you have ever felt that somewhat despairing sense of the ...

  An observation on the unusual character and taste of Frodo; over at The Notion Club Papers blog .

Following on from my earlier post ; I'd like to add a comment on the absurdity of that oft-repeated claim or insinuation that the (undou...

The phenomenon by which people who (perhaps) began life as cynical radicals or supposed-revolutionaries; later become successful and highly ...

A decade ago-plus; I wrote a couple of posts about the English novelist Barbara Pym (1913-1980); and this is just to say I have continued ...

God is an answer to the problem of our existence in reality.  The Christian God is a personal creator; and as such provides the possibility ...

Ever since I began regularly blogging some 15 years ago; I have cycled around this distinctively modern problem of demotivation. Modern West...

I am re-reading Geoffrey Ashe's fascinating study The Virgin (1976), which is focused on Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ (Ashe was a Roman...

By my evaluation, traditional Christians are being consistently dishonest about what their faith actually entails.  They talk and write that...

I recently read my old colleague Ed Dutton's biography of a "radical Right" political figure called Jonathan Bowden (1962-201...

It seems worth noting that this is Lady Day   - March 25th, officially the Feast of the Annunciation, commemorating the day that Jesus was c...

The alien Marvin (the Martian), asserts objective reality   Modern alienation is a very real thing: which is to say the experience of being ...

I have often noted that there can be no political Right that is genuinely distinct from the Left; unless it is rooted in religion.  In othe...

Friend of this blog and administrator of the Romantic Christianity aggregator New World Island , David Earle; has made available a plain tex...

It is fascinating (as well as alarming) to see the British political system, bureaucracy and mass media; combining forces to justify and esc...

Manfred von Richthofen - the Red Baron  - was the top scoring ace in World War I, with 80 confirmed kills; a number that seems likely to be ...

Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford -  a lovely place to visit on a sunny day As happens recurrently, there is a resurgence of the arg...

Everybody rightly makes fun of the pseudo-Christian preachers of a "prosperity gospel", when their message becomes too crude, shor...

I have harped-on about the problem of regarding God's omniscience as necessary and definitive , and what malign effects this assumption ...