Bruce Charlton's Notions

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...

A few years ago, I was looking at our local church - which has a tall campanile-style tower; and noticed the lightning rod on the highest po...

Red geraniums are my favourite flower to grow We have a largeish and somewhat feral garden, always an overgrown mess; that I greatly appreci...

If you have an Amazon Prime subscription, and live in the UK; there are a few days left in which to watch the 1978 movie Stevie - a biograph...

Stereotypes - I mean  valid ones, which spontaneously stereotypes tend to be - are useful; indeed they are essential to social functioning i...

"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's."  So said William Blake - and he did ; he created an idiosyncratic a...

There is a grand strategy for global totalitarianism than can be inferred or "reverse engineered" from linking-up the primary Litm...

It seems that the highest goal of divine creation according to Christianity is resurrection - which is eternal incarnation; in other words, ...

When I began doing theoretical evolutionary biology as my main thing (May 1994); I realized that there were two apparently opposed ways of ...

After having been well taught artistic discernment (not ability!) by my father - who had been an art teacher and was a decent landscape wate...

I have reworked my post on the "fuzziness" of myth, from a couple of days ago - and with reference to JRR Tolkien's work - ove...