Bruce Charlton's Notions

A lot of modern people are(or claim to be) averse to the exclusivism of "Christianity". By "exclusivism" they usually re...

Can we genuinely - by making wise and responsible lifestyle choices - fight The System, and thereby work incrementally towards a Good, a Chr...

It is a simple fact that the supporters of "AI" are thereby supporting global totalitarianism's Core Project - and the projec...

This is notice of a TV series called The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin that I am currently watching on Amazon Prime - I have seen thr...

Nikolai Gogol - an irrelevant portrait (apparently channelling his inner Benny Hill) For those too young to remember; the search engine that...

The above are marks inscribed on the door jamb of the entrance to the beautiful and fascinating church of St Andrew's, Hartburn, Northum...

The way things have been shaping over the past years; I think that the biggest spiritual challenge is related to social institutions; specif...

In the early 1970s, it was a standard aesthetic criterion that "development" was a good thing, a necessary thing - and that the de...

We are born with secure knowledge that "we are not alone" but inhabit a universe of other beings, some like ourselves, some differ...

  From today's church-hunting at St Michael and All Angels, Felton, in Northumberland.  What is very unusual is that the whole tracery d...

There is a sentence in the Fourth Gospel that contradicts the argument and multiple statements of the rest of the Gospel, and which I assu...

Does History unfold according to a plan? I think not.  But History does have a direction , and this direction is a bottom-up kind of thing: ...

There is a very strong tendency among anti-Establishment radicals (and indeed among Establishment-supporting radicals - the legions of delud...

It is striking (to me) how the ideal values of worship and obedient service have declined to feebleness - or else to a legalism of worship ...

I have seldom seen more of a a blog blitz on synlogos.org, than the past few days of Roman Catholic bloggers debating the Pope's actions...

In my mid-twenties I graduated from medical school and started work; at first as a doctor, then in research for a doctorate. These were year...

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 (?)...