Bruce Charlton's Notions

* It is quite easy to discern Christian Reactionary blogs from Secular Right blogs in terms of bad language. Bad language = not-Christia...

* Charles Williams (1886-1945) was one of the Inklings, and typically the third name to be mentioned after JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis, and a...

* I am becoming increasingly disenchanted with reasonable argument based on false premises, which has the counter-productive effect of rea...

* Just a comment on the corrupting effect of Leftism and the absolute necessity to expurgate Leftism from one's own perspective... I...

* I regard myself as a Mere Christian - and have been trying to understand the implications; which are somewhat more complex than I had at...

* I recently had another enjoyable meeting with locally-dwelling Christian blogger Alastair Roberts https://alastairadversaria.wordpress...

* It is not unusual to do the right thing for the wrong reason - to make the correct specific choice but validated by the wrong general pr...

* "If you dip into any college, or school, or parish, or family–anything you like–at a given point in its history, you always find ...

* One true thing, at least, was said by Kurt Vonnegut - that loneliness was the big problem of modern life. People are not built to liv...

* http://orthosphere.org/2013/01/06/a-prayer-for-lawrence-auster/ *

* It is obvious that in modern secular society there is a slippery slope by which people first modify their bodies simply to fit in with f...

* I was browsing through the Ten Commandments in the Catechism of the Book of Common Prayer, as one does, and noticed the phrase at the en...

* Our culture is dying, is killing itself, from abstraction. We take abstract concepts like equality, freedom, justice; concepts which n...

* After the anti-Christian, lying drivel spouted by Rowan Williams and Justin Welby over the Christmas season; how refreshing and enthusin...

* Continuing on my theme of real Christians (necessarily reactionary) and our strategy for permanent resistance http://charltonteaching....

* Superb insights excerpted from pp 170-172 of Psychotic depression by Conrad M Swartz and Edward Shorter. Cambridge University Press, 20...

* The phenomenon of self-remembering has been of interest to me since I first heard of the concept and found a word to apply to my experie...

* On the eve of retiring from his tenancy of the Archbishopric of Canterbury (thus head of the third-largest Christian denomination in the...

* We are losing. The tide shows no sign of turning. Reactionaries in general, and those who aspire to be real Christians in particular...

* I do not expect many people to agree - but I find this piece heart-wrenchingly beautiful; with (somehow) all the stark dignity, and trag...

* Below I have posted an almost perfect little essay by Orson Scott Card which almost perfectly expresses my own views on the literary ca...