Bruce Charlton's Notions

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....

People seem to think that becoming a Christian is an answer: the answer.  They think; if they can only become the right kind of Christian -...

It is possible some of my readers do not know that remarkably... memorable image of our Saviour " Buddy Christ " - which was a bri...

We know (ought, by now, to realize) that our leaders are puppets - but not all the same kind of puppet.  The point is distraction - to have...

[The aim of alchemy was] to hasten the ... processes of nature by precipitating matter through stages of decay and decomposition into a new ...

I have previously written about the strange way that things fall into sevens ; but it is also well known that seven is usually primary in a ...