Bruce Charlton's Notions

In relation to today's earlier posts, the following may help concretize and clarify the nature of the argument. It picks up on the pub d...

One thing about the Litmus Tests of our era is that they are learning opportunities : but more emphatically they are opportunities to learn ...

One of the deepest and (it seems to me) most important insights from Jesus, is that what is inevitable in this mortal life, is not for that ...

A baby after his Dead Goggles were installed, and before they became invisible The animistic world view is a consequence of the evolved natu...

I find it recurrently very striking that although I may admire, study, reflect upon individual persons (my "mentors"*) - my strong...

Is Substack corrupting? * Corrupting towards psycho-spiritual assimilation into, and support of, the global totalitarian-materialist ideolog...

By Ted Nasmith It was only on my current read-through of The Lord of the Rings that I noticed, and was puzzled by, the question of what Gand...

The activity of mainstream modern Big Science is most reminiscent of a Soviet Union era organization – such as the grossly unprofitable Poli...

It often seems that there have never been very many Christians in the world; because so very few people - even among the religious - seem ev...

For most Christians in recorded history (although not in the Gospels) being-a-Christian is the same thing as being an observant member of ...

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...