Bruce Charlton's Notions

  You will enjoy this! It is a video made by some primary school kids in Grasmere, the Lake District (which is where William Wordsworth live...

British people of a certain age will often have fond memories of the Robinson Crusoe TV dramatisation that seemed to be on every summer hol...

USP = Unique Selling Point - that which distinguishes Christianity, in a good way, from all other religions.  Regular readers will probably ...

The Cinderella of the Trinity - not many people seem to take much notice of the Holy Ghost!  Who is He, after all? There are several ideas: ...

Christmas is coming! Wassail !  One of my all time favourite unaccompanied folk-singing groups - The Watersons: a brother, two sisters and a...

This is excerpted from: BG Charlton and P Andras. Auditing as a tool of public policy - The misuse of quality assurance techniques in the UK...

Providence is a good word for 'destiny' - I prefer it because destiny has connotations of a blueprint or at least of a stepwise plan...

There are plenty of spiritual teachers - especially in the New Age, but also among Christians - who assert that 'thinking' is a bad ...

A word of caution. One common response among thoughtful people who are trying to make sense of 2020 is to look at history - in particular t...

A while ago I became interested in the use of auditing technologies - especially Quality Assurance - in the UK public sector; especially un...

For those who don't remember it; on 27 November 2019, I (sort-of) predicted this year's apocalypse , a few months ahead... " .....

(Note: Here I am using a typology of evil: Luciferic , Ahrimanic , and Sorathic - which I have adapted and transformed from their origin in...

Trust is a proximate matter.  There are those who say they 'trust the science' but what they are proximately doing is trusting the m...

I suspect that the main benefit of these times, and especially this annus horribilis of 2020; would be if the events awaken those who are ...

I am reading On the banks of Plum Creek - which is part of the Little House on the Prairie (so-far, wonderful ) series by Laura Ingalls Wi...

The above quote “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” comes from a Philip K Dick essay ; but PKD hims...

If you want a pop singer (or any kind of singer) with a very good voice - it may be that sacrifices must be made in terms of the... overall ...

  Regular readers will know that I like to share astoundingly good musical performances here from time to time - this is one.  I mention it ...

This year we have seen the death of Christopher Tolkien and Walter Hooper (March 27, 1931 – December 7, 2020) - who were our primary links t...

Just a reminder to myself and all of us; that chronic fear is a sin - because it means that we are failing to trust in God.  Yet of course ...

You know the arguments; you've engaged in them I'm sure... The left has it that everything is political, and all politics is moral -...