Bruce Charlton's Notions

I live in a relatively leafy suburb containing many forest-sized trees such as oaks, beeches, horse chestnuts, limes - plus common sycamores...

One effect of modernity (and our atheist, materialist, utilitarian ideological assumptions) is that the question of Life has all-but disappe...

"The official story" is always wrong, and also  fundamentally misleading*.  And it probably always has been - albeit getting worse...

So much depends on motivation; but can it be improved?   Yes, I think so - but this is not easy or straightforward, and needs to be approach...

People confuse honesty with truthfulness.  Truthfulness implies a positive motivation to know reality - essentially for its own sake; becaus...

In those days - now receding fast! - when real science was happening at a large scale, as a social system; its progress functioned by indivi...

If it is agreed that the Fourth Gospel is of primary validity ; then the other three "Synoptic" Gospels (Mathhew, Mark, and Luke) ...

Note: In what follows; I take the Fourth Gospel ("John") as my eyewitness source for the life of Jesus final years.  If we are to ...

I don't think that we can really appreciate literary genius outwith out own - high level - language ability. The field of "comparat...

What I am trying to explain in this post; is how it is that so many serious Christians end-up expending so much energy on defending and asse...

The 15th September was chosen to commemorate the Battle of Britain , since it was this day in 1940 that was the turning-point.  I have misla...

I recently posted about some of the "Systems" which we might imagine God setting-up to provide humans with revelation; and someth...

Today we saw the base that remains from perhaps the oldest surviving decorated stone rood in England;  now forming the base of the font in A...

The ancient symbolisation of light (and white) for goodness used to be more than just symbolism. In the ancient past symbols were also reali...

An RAF spotters guide to identifying the He 113 - an aircraft that did not exist.  The extent to which it is true that we see what we expect...

If you were God the Creator, making this reality; and you wished to set-up a System for transmitting Revelations to humans, such as essentia...

Brian Kingcome , and Geoffrey Wellum in front of a Spitfire - Wellum's First Light is one of the most inspiring and beautiful Battle of...

Leftism is oppositional in its fundamental nature , and over the centuries it has accumulated many oppositions.  And, once an opposition has...

The kind of Christianity that I regard as necessary is one in which we approach the religious task of learning with a mind-set very differen...

I am a practitioner of the ancient craft of wet shaving with a safety-razer; and have often noticed that I make a "Mussolini face...

Have you ever noticed that when a lot of people convert to Christianity, or convert to a different denomination or church within Christianit...