Bruce Charlton's Notions

We took a rail trip out to Hexham yesterday - a favourite place. The Abbey, in an earlier version built by St Wilfrid during Northumbria...

Of course not! But most modern people - especially intellectuals - think much like computers; and more so with every passing year. They th...

(This important question - or something like it - was posed by William Wildblood in the comments to the previous post on Screwtape and Wormw...

One of the most important reasons for reading CS Lewis's The Screwtape Letters (and its 'follow-up', Screwtape Proposes a Toast)...

It seems pretty clear that The Establishment wants to control every human down to the smallest level. Those few remaining areas of technolog...

Why has The Establishment*, for half a century full-on, favoured replacing men with women leaders? Obviously, we can be sure that the rea...

The matter of human creativity - and whether it is 'a good thing' has profound implications for religious thinking, including Christ...

It is so difficult to stick to the subject - so easy to drift off the point: The Point is what is this world for in relation to me, my life,...

Owen Barfield claimed not to be very clear about the nature of that Final Participation which he saw as the destiny of human evolution of co...

If there is a spiritual awakening happening in England, Western Europe or the West generally; if awakening is beginning to happen - or if we...

People get confused about the nature, and even the existence, of evil - but if one recognises the reality of Good, then evil is straightforw...

Just then a high, mournful sound broke in upon Stephen's dream – a slow, sad song in an unknown language and Stephen understood without ...

Richard Greene as my definitive Robin Hood An early post in this blog described my childhood love of the idea of Robin Hood and his M...

I am trying to escape from physics meatphors in my fundamental understanding of things (also called metaphysics - get it? meta-physics!). Bu...

I shall try to review this book without spoilers - by focusing upon its form and the impression it made upon me, rather than the specific co...

Serious Christianity has been all-but destroyed in the lives of people in Western Europe, and the US seems not far behind. But it would be h...

There is a fair degree of consensus among thinking spiritual and (Mere) Christian people that the forces of evil have by-now won the culture...

Wisdom - Bill Arkle, August 1976 Wisdom has to start with our ordinary understanding of the term 'wisdom' which we know is a rela...

It is one of the most profound, yet simple, insights of Mormon theology that to be incarnate - embodied - is a higher state than being a pur...