Bruce Charlton's Notions

The Voyage of St Brandon - by Edward Reginald Frampton Over at the Notion Club Papers blog , I argue that  The Sea Bell poem is Not autobi...

For the handful of interested readers; I have just posted a new tranche of posts on the blog Bruce Charlton on Music .    I am still emergin...

Dylan Thomas I was introduced to the work of Dylan Thomas at exactly the right moment - which was that post-Lord of the Rings era, after I f...

People are always trying to explain "the problem" of Christian churches (and indeed all types of church) in terms of some specific...

My conclusion is that benefits of Not getting what we want, only happen if we are capable of learning from our life experience.  The trouble...

Because of the development of human consciousness , there is necessarily a generational effect in terms of the nature and possibilities when...

Britain Burning Now! - spontaneous fires break-out across the nation  The CO2 "Global Warmist" Climate agenda may be a dubious, i...

Before I became a Christian - and on the basis mainly of my academic work in biology - I was convinced that there was a long-term Direction ...

It has long been recognized in some circles that, in a deep sense, nearly all serious- and real-Christians nowadays are converts .  They hav...

As sung by The Yetties ( And by me ) Way down on our farm we are right up to date,  For mechanisation's the byword of late  For every ta...

It's a great plan!  Let's spend ever more and yet more time/ energy/ resources on locating the sins of other-people , and then loudl...

Reading Laeth's latest aphorisms , he reminded me of a 2019 post from Wm Jas Tychonievich about whether or not the Mormon prophet Josep...

I have often heard it emphasised by Christians how remarkable, how shocking, it was that God was incarnated as a little baby, lived, suffere...

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...