Bruce Charlton's Notions

In which I argue that all modern leaders are bad - but, luckily, living without leadership is exactly what we ought to be learning to do, a...

If someone has become a Christian and they are not going to join an existing church suitable to their convictions and aspirations - what sho...

Yes, he was saved; according to the author of the Fourth Gospel, and going entirely by that gospel (written as it is by an eye witness) - I ...

Thinking about thrush song, and how I haven't heard any for a few years - I recalled this poem by Robert Frost; picked up the book of co...

My experience of Christianity as a child (5-11 years old) was an oppressive one. The village school was a Church of England establishment,...

The importance of coming to a decision concerning the relative authority of parts of the Bible, parts of the New Testament, and between the ...

Leaving aside the actively-misleading irrelevance that is Bible scholarship (which almost-always has been based-on the secular assumption th...

William Wildblood discusses this at Albion Awakening . Of course, it all depends on one's assumptions about the nature of good and evi...

I have said this before her, but it is probably worth repeating that I regard the Authorised Version of the Bible - or 'King James' ...

Adam G at Junior Ganymede has posted a transcript of a great talk he gave at church . This is both realistic, and very inspiring! In it Ada...

Long-term readers of this blog will know that I am trying to understand Christianity using only the fourth Gospel, as if it was my only sour...

There is a general plan of salvation - requiring the incarnation, death and resurrection of Jesus; and there is a general plan of theosis - ...

It is all very well for me to call Jordan Peterson an antichrist, and to warn people off taking seriously someone who is a merely a psychoth...

I was asked a question yesterday by commenter NW, about what qualifies a person to be regarded as a Christian - and this led to the followin...

A recent blog post by William M Briggs collects together just some of the evidence that has been coming into the open about the fact that t...

The idea that we already (in childhood, spontaneously) know everything truly-knowable , but are unconscious of the fact - and that learning ...

Does he have to be either? - you ask. And the answer is, in principle, of course not. But in practice Jordan Peterson is indeed being tr...

At first sight this seems a ridiculous idea, that has apparently been refuted by the great accumulation of knowledge through human histor...

  The Philosophers by William Arkle Edited from Equations of Being: notes on the nature of love - by William Arkle: The God we are t...

When I first became interested in JRR Tolkien in the middle 70s, there was not much attention paid to him by the British mass media - but...

So far as I know from personal experience - people I have known before and after they attained 'power' - high position, high status,...