Bruce Charlton's Notions

Enzo Cilenti (excellent) as Childermass in the (overall not excellent) BBC adaptation of S&N Over the past four years I have 'd...

I have often written here about the fascinating yet enigmatic person of John the Baptist , who is presented as an extremely important figure...

We can analyse paganism, monotheism and Christianity from the perspective of the implied relationship between Man and the divine (and an und...

People (including myself) often seek for a blueprint of how to live, a set of methods, a step-by-step plan so that we know in advance what t...

For there to be order (rather than chaos) there is organisation. Part of this is Time, and the other part is Space. We began as spirits, l...

I was a big fan of Electric Folk music in the 1970s - this is perhaps the only truly first rate example of the genre I have heard performed...

It is easy to make too much of the change in mainstream socio-politics that happened in the mid-1960s. Leftism has been increasingly mainstr...

(My answer; speaking from the experience of several decades, in the middle years of my life, as an atheist...) The fact that all modern pu...

...When I turned 17 I did not bother learning to get a driving license, because I was confident that cars would not be around for much longe...

It is interesting that the Eastern Roman ('Byzantine') Empire, which lasted for 1000 years in Constaninople - much longer than any o...

Following my offer to answer reader's questions , and the follow-up ... Are there any more? Note: If you want; you might like to pre...

Mainstream modern morality includes such as: Love is Important... Justice, Compassion, Equality... these things are Terribly Important. Art ...

I caught the headline that yet another effective leader of dissent against The System has been neutralised (Nigel Farage of UKIP - the man w...

Just a point of information - political correctness and deplatforming by SJWs began from the middle 1960s in relation to (physical) attacks ...

I've been dipping into the world of radical left theorists again recently (which I used to know quite well, sometimes from the inside) -...

The idea of using 'memes' in the spiritual and culture war is a good one - so long as the aim is to change thinking rather than to i...

The age of complex politics - politics you needed to study and learn - is past, long past. And probably that's a good thing; probably th...

There are, of course, plenty of 'evil geniuses' in the sense of people who are (overall) evil while also being creative geniuses; ho...

It isn't impossible so perhaps there is, perhaps many - but it's not something I have known for myself. What I encounter is the beli...

  The Romantic Christianity of William Arkle - inspiring reality behind the mundane surface Romanticism is very important, indeed inev...