Bruce Charlton's Notions

I am suspending commenting for a week or so, following a period of (what felt to me!) relatively high productivity of output. This suspendin...

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

I have previously made an analogy between our situation in this mortal life in relation to Heaven, and that of a student at Medical School ...

A post by Francis Berger brought into focus a common propaganda tactic to which I must invent a term "abstracting isolation".  Th...

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

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...