Bruce Charlton's Notions

* Traditional Mainstream Christians (Protestants and Catholics) tend to insist that in a  marriage  the wife should "submit" to ...

* http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/reliable-but-dumb-or-smart-but-slapdash.html Edited summary: The psychological attri...

* Wise words from TS Eliot's Introduction to Charles Williams's novel:  All Hallows Eve (1945) The conflict which is the theme...

* The Mormon record of more marriages, younger marriages, stronger marriages, and larger families isn't something that 'just happe...

* I have this strong feeling, which goes way back into my early teen years - that I was very lucky to live in a period of peace, abundance...

* I have previously opined that Mark Hackard is the deepest 'modern' socio-political commentator that I know of: http://charlton...

* Most Men use their love of other people - especially love in the family - to understand the nature of God's love for us (it being ...

* The Choral Fantasy Op 80 (for piano, orchestra and chorus). A self-contained 20 minute concert piece that is just sheer delight from b...

* Very few things in nature are equal - perhaps no two things are truly equal: certainly no two people are equal - because no two people a...

* 36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and...

* Love. * When we die, we take love with us. Of God, of others - and their love of us. * That is not all we take - but it is the...

* Regret seems a very secular, and modern, emotion. Regret is the desire to remake the present. To go back and take a different path. ...

* I have been reading a history of art from a Christian (Calvinist) perspective - Modern art and the death of a culture by Hans Rookmaake...

* 1. Ignorant/ Misinformed It is no shame, neither is it unusual, to be misinformed about Mormonism (why should people know about it, af...

* The old Communist idea of Permanent Revolution is now reality. We live in a world that is based on the idea that that the true revolu...

* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/review-of-jrr-tolkien-audiobook-sir.html *

* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/intelligence-is-tertiary-phenomenon.html *

* As a society, as individual people, we don't need more analysis; we don't need another systematic political framework. Our def...

* Emerson's journal, 1857: In the south a slave is bluntly but accurately valued at 500 to 1000 dollars, if a good working field han...

* One of the values of having a metaphysical stance which includes the possibility of It Just Is as an acceptable  terminus to the deman...

* If your theology works for you - and does not distort your Christian faith - fine. My position is that theology, philosophy, metaphysi...