Bruce Charlton's Notions

From the close of the Order for Evening Prayer - The Book of Common Prayer The Second Collect at Evening Prayer O God, from whom all ...

On 3 March I predicted that They would be using their new powers to prevent Christians gathering . As usual I underestimated the severity ...

This is not a cook-book method; indeed I agree with William Arkle that the essence of our mortal situation is that God wants us to work out ...

A post at Frank Berger's blog helped me make one of those connections about the birdemic crisis that ought to have been obvious much ...

It's not about the birdemic ... I have found this slogan to be a useful mantra. Converting the entire developed world to a totalit...

H/T to AC for the cartoon above. In fact the situation is worse than that depicted above; since (I understand) the Mass has never been of...

The Calumny aria  Words by Cesare Sterbini - from Rossini's The Barber of Seville The calumny is a little wind, a very gentle lit...

If readers have questions - do ask. I don't promise to answer (there are such things as trolls, agents provocateurs, time-wasters, ma...

We are currently living in the first successful - mass and sustained - application of the Project Fear strategy. The infinitely-gullible W...

One of the most persistent, most false , notions is that New Leftism (political correctness, SJWs, Wokeness) is the modern mainstream religi...

I published my book about the death of real science - Not even Trying - back in 2011. Despite being, I think, the best written of my books;...

I find myself fascinated, these days, by tales and legends of a small group working against apparently insuperable odds, ridiculously overma...

This is what a totalitarian takeover looks like. You are living through it: a time of revelations. Every day new restrictions, new bans, n...

Regular readers will know that when I re/discover an author to my liking, I tend serially to binge on their work; including any biographic...

I still can't find any - but does anyone anywhere know any of the stats of corvid serious illness or deaths among people who are: 1. ...

Leftism is very generally misunderstood as being 'about' some positive program such as equality, diversity, feminism, the sexual rev...

I've been brooding on a few paragraphs Rudolf Steiner wrote - not for the first time ; but they came to mind - seem relevant. (See ex...

  The Jay - a beautiful corvid, with a harsh voice Since the birdemic crisis seems to be unfolding almost exactly as the evil Establish...

I was completely unaware of the early folk rock singer Vashti Bunyan , at the time when she was briefly famous in the sixties. (I came ...

I don't find it surprising that most people in the world - past and present - find Christianity incredible, ridiculous or outrageous - a...

For metaphysical pluralists such as myself; Jesus as both God and Man entails that I have some idea of what (on the one hand) constitutes t...