Bruce Charlton's Notions

* My Dear Child, Now you know that my creative purpose is to raise-up my children to a divine maturity, in hope that they will freely cho...

* This is a simplified and direct interpretation of the understanding I have of reality, and it is written as a letter from God to 'you...

* I have been re-reading the Gospel of Matthew - and, for the first time, felt for myself a sense of its overall structure and methods. M...

* We grossly misapprehend and underestimate Love if we regard it as a virtue akin to Faith, Hope and the 'seven virtues'; we trivia...

* I have been working-through the talks given at the LDS general conference last weekend. One in particular I found quite astonishingly pow...

* It is the loss of Christianity which is at the root of Western cultural decline, and the essence of decline, and the essence of decline i...

* As usual at this time of year, I will be taking about a week away from daily blogging. I apologise to regular readers, because I know f...

* Reflections from the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, Repent, be Baptised - and Healing John the ...

* If so - on what basis are you sure that death is total extinction? We all agree that the body dies - but you apparently believe that th...

* I have an unusually powerful need for unstructured solitude - that is for un-busy, un-hurried, un-distracted time spent alone and without...

* From Newcastle upon Tyne (my garden)

* The reason that mainstream theologians have persisted for 2000 years with monism (and an Omni- concept of God) despite the insoluble a...

* A fascinating, and highly-recommended hour-long biographical film about Lloyd Alexander has been posted on YouTube recently - I ha...

* OK, regular readers can have a good laugh at the fact I have today published a piece in The Guardian , which is famously the home of pol...

* There is nothing that our secular Left culture likes more than for Christian reactionaries to expend their lives fulminating against it. ...

* When suffering exists with hope , we yearn for Heaven. But when suffering leads to despair ; then we yearn for release, permanent escap...

* Jesus Christ is the Shepherd, master of the flock - and we his lambs. And Christ is the Lamb - lovely and knowable. The Lamb of God g...

* The purpose and function of mortal incarnate life is not reducible to one thing - mortal incarnate life is not reducible to salvation un...

* Blake was a mystic - was divinely inspired - had direct access to and received evidence of reality. Mystics provide us with what might ...

* There cannot and should-not be any division or distinction between religion and the state. Unless the state is to be evil; it must-be a...

* Christians sometimes feel or say that they ought to suppose other people have 'good intentions', and that this attitude is entail...