Bruce Charlton's Notions

* As I have mentioned before, I don't read many novels these days - but one author I return to with renewed delight is Barbara Pym (19...

* I find this kind of music utterly marvellous and deeply spiritual. It was originally English, went to New England then spread to survi...

* Excerpts from his first statement: http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/2692/#Audio * I want to say at once that one...

* In listing the three greatest understanders of Christianity in my personal judgment, it should be clear that what is being judged here i...

* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/what-is-point-of-tale-of-turin-turambar.html *

* So much bad news for Christians, from so many quarters - yet not unexpected, simply a confirmation and clarification that things are not...

* What's in a face? Quite a lot, as a rule. Is this the face of a leader? The new Archbishop of Canturbury Or the previous Arc...

* It seems that a chap called Justin Welby is going to become the leader of the third largest Christian denomination in the world ( my de...

* Having read Fr Seraphim Rose, Peter Kreeft and Rupert Sheldrake on the subject of angels; I was surprised to discover Billy Graham had w...

* Voting is a Leftist process. The outcome of a vote has zero intrinsic validity because it has zero personal responsibility. Therefore ...

* Two things. 1. Kept alive by the will of God. Essentially because we have something yet to do - repent, accept forgiveness, love, prai...

* Since we know God is Good, and that 'everything' is therefore Good; yet we also know that evil is real, then what happens to evi...

* I am not a Mormon, however I believe that Mormons bears signs of being 'a people' who have been blessed by God. By 'blesse...

* In the West fertility is below replacement for almost all groups or 'peoples'. Although fertility is higher for the more-relig...

* My recent post on voting http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/voting-is-instrument-of-devil.html produced a lot of interes...

* There is a striking difference between, on the one hand, the evangelical Protestant emphasis on the Christian's assurance of salvati...

* I was reading my new copy of the excellent English Standard Version (ESV) Study Bible and came across some notes which suggested that be...

* "...I am so made that I cannot believe..." That is true, but at least get it into your head that, if you are unable to beli...

* The whole idea that voting could be a valid method of making any kind of decision at any level of practice is so bizarre, so stupid, so ...

* [For an excellently written essay on what was 'electric folk' music, go to the Wikipedia - accessed today.] * In order of re...

* From a Charlie Rose interview with JK Rowling, broadcast in October. http://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/charlie-rose-interviews-j-k-rowl...