Bruce Charlton's Notions

From Exegesis by Philp K Dick, referring to his novel The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)  This is a strange ending [to the novel]...

There seems to be a fundamental problem in life, that while passive, assimilative compliance leads (in our society and world) to disaster an...

Atheist materialism - the mainstream ideology of the West, that monopolizes the entirety of public discourse - is a system of reasoning that...

I have read and continue to read a lot of biographies; both formal biographies, and more journalistic accounts of people's character, ac...

In that seminal year of 2020 we saw example of the two extremes of coordinated global media manipulation.  At the start of 2020 was the Bird...

Much of the public space is taken up by people "reacting" - especially to news and current affairs; including a wide rage of stuff...

In the past few months, I have begun to limit my reading of blogs more and more - including those I have been reading a long time. This was ...

Gimli, afraid of the ghosts under the Dwimorberg: picture by DavidDeb Over at my Notion Club Papers blog ; I discuss the short passage, duri...

"You can't have your cake and eat it too" - is a very badly phrased proverb, for two reasons.  1. Having cake is intended to ...

Continuing on the theme of death and dying ; and exploring the idea that the greatly extended lifespan in The West nowadays may have a spiri...

If Romantic Christianity is an insistence that the individual (rather than a ny external authority, such as a church or a prescribed-inter...

In spiritual life here-and-now; it seems to be A Bad Idea to be too specific about what we want to achieve; because then there is a danger t...

William Wildblood has published an excellent post about a subject that almost nobody (in Western civilization) thinks about, except when co...

We want significance in our lives; but we fear it too.  Significance implies that what we think, say and do has permanence and universality;...

I have noticed a big difference in the way I think about the way I think about theology, compared with almost everyone else.  Which is: tha...

The basic problem afflicting the "traditional" ways of theorizing about Jesus ; is that they were doing theology or philosophy wit...

It seems to me that the religion of Christianity - as expressed in the major churches  (variously, since very early in church history); was...

That we spontaneously take sides is evident whenever we watch any kind of contest - such as a sport... We find-ourselves rooting for one or ...

Joining-up a couple of dots from what I've said; when Jesus met Nicodemus and told him that Men need to be "born again" - Je...

My understanding of dreams is that their specific content, their details; are much less important than their general theme and emotional ton...

John 14: [3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also....