Bruce Charlton's Notions

If Murphy's favourite hammer has had both its head and its haft replaced several times over its long lifetime - is this still Murphy...

Some will not yet have heard the surviving lecture and Q&A session by William Arkle - Discovering your soul's purpose - given i...

Q: If life after biological-death is real, how come we don't know about it for sure? A: But we do know about it, every one of us - bec...

I have recently managed to buy perhaps the last ever reasonably-priced copy of JC Powys's last worthwhile (albeit crazy - but that goes ...

England were horribly thrashed by Australia in the first test - and at England's 'fortress' of the Edgbaston ground in Birmingha...

I've been listening to my penfriend Keri Ford's reading (in his inimitable, fascinating New Zealand dialect!) of John Cowper Powys...

Joan Sutherland makes - to my ear - the most beautiful sound I have ever heard from a human being; on top of which her technique and upper r...

I am now sure that our 'civilisation' is going to end soon; and also that this is a necessary thing because of the great evil that w...

  Dressed for a pageant in 1939, Petrushka/ Paracelsus... a proto-druid "We Aboriginal Welsh People are the proudest people in th...

This is the vital question asked by William Wildblood at his blog . He concludes: Death is the summation of life and should be completel...

It may be helpful to consider God (the creator, the creat-ing) as, from our perspective, a polarity . We know God directly and personally ...

  Remorse? - Too late... In the current Ashes, Australia are fielding the three convicted cheats - ex-captain Steve Smith, David Warner...

For most of recorded history institutions came first, and the individual had to fit-into, or fit-around institutions, as best he could. Not ...

I don't suppose many will recognise the above picture - but it had something of an iconic status in and around the city of Bristol wh...

It may be worth restating yesterday's argument in the opposite direction, by explaining how sexual im-morality goes against Christian ...

By my understanding - there are two common wrong ways of conceptualising Christianity: one is the traditional, the other liberal. The trad...

Picture of Bruce Charlton from a decade ago Stock Photo of a 'wild-eyed' man A phrase that makes my day! Yesterday, I ...

John Fitzgerald has posted a wide-ranging review of Lindop's biography of the Inkling Charles Williams (my own stab at the business is ...

WmJas has clarified for me that the phrase that Jesus was 'the Lamb of God', was a reference to the Passover feats, and its use of ...

If you don't already know them; I would highly-recommend The Letters of JRR Tolkien, edited by Humphrey Carpenter (1981) which are absol...

I look at IT, and then IT looks at me with 'that' smile... It seems to be able to smile on everything, whatever it is. How can it do...