Bruce Charlton's Notions

...Can be found at the Notion Club Paper's blog . Excerpt: In The Flame Imperishable , Jonathan McIntosh argues that JRR Tolkien...

How have we allowed ourselves to be driven down this path, persuaded to abandon real goodness and truth in the name of a demonstrably false ...

The point is made over at Albion Awakening ...

  Painting by William Arkle We get ourselves tangled in knots about dilemmas of all sorts... we get to believe that Reality is 'par...

Painting by William Arkle Colin Wilson wrote extensively - from The Outsider-Religion and the Rebel (1956-7) about the need for a cha...

William Arkle 's son Nick has posted some new photos of his artwork online at the Facebook page . Arkle painted in a variety of style ...

According to modern Western culture the answer is: To Stay Young; but given that is impossible, to pretend to stay young (by simulating a yo...

Jesus made God explicit - and he clarified in his teachings that (from that time) things needed to be made explicit. Jesus was himself God...

Since the sexual revolution is now the true socio-political divide (The Left being in favour, and those in favour being The Left) it seems c...

Good is simple and immediate - in the sense that good ends are a consequence of good means; and goodness here and now is the route to good f...

A Psalm of Life  What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist . Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! ...

Politically-correct censorship continues to grow - although it is far from new. Wholesale censorship of public discourse to advance the Le...

Last week, Britain was paralysed by a moderate snowfall. The snow was much, much less-severe than in 2009-10 and 2010-11 - when it was consi...

Since I became a Christian and engaged with the Bible as such, I have not been satisfied with the usual ways of reading and understanding th...

I have watched nearly-all of the movie Les Miserable s, and have yet to recognise the eponymous hero, or discover why he was so sad - admitt...

There may be more of the subject of marriage and the family that is intentionally-implied by the Fourth Gospel than is obvious to most read...

If you try to speak to anybody about the kind of things I discuss on this blog - you won't get far: indeed you won't get anywhere. ...

I am listening to Ralph Waldo Emerson 's Essays on an audiobook; and re-reading Carlos Baker's excellent group-biography Emerson amo...

The answer is given in the first paragraph of that wisest, most insightful of tragi-comc novels - The Screwtape Letters, by CS Lewis (1942):...

From Junior Ganymede : Emmanuel Macron, the newly elected French President, has no children.  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has no chi...

I wrote a post about spoiled priests (and nuns) about six years ago: My impression is that few people have done so much damage as spoiled...