Bruce Charlton's Notions

I have a very deep conviction that life is simple; in the sense that actually experienced life is simple insofar as we are leading it as Go...

It seems an unfortunate human characteristic that so many (including Men of genius) want to make Life (especially other-people's lives) ...

  Song: “Under the greenwood tree” from As You Like It, by William Shakespeare, music by Thomas Arne (English: 1710-1778).  Under the green...

We live in a world where there is a single, totalitarian and evil system - that has assimilated all major institutions, and controls both su...

My impression is that there is a mismatch between the usual proofs and justifications of God, and the nature of God.  (IMO) The main thing a...

Subtract subcutaneous fat; and the human male-female difference in muscle size and strength is about the same as for gorillas  Emphasis adde...

It is so hard to eradicate materialist ways of thinking!  Discerning the 2020 Litmus Tests is not about resistance - which is a material t...

The Litmus Tests of serious Christianity * I described in 2020 certainly seem to work in practice; yet it is a striking and obvious fact tha...

The 'raising of Lazarus' was indeed a miraculous resurrection ; as is made clear by the text of the Fourth Gospel .  Yet it was inco...

I watched the first two series of The Mandalorian and thoroughly enjoyed it - at the level of a series of (nearly all) well-crafted and exc...

Yes, Jesus was indeed without sin. But the question is what that means ?  'Sin' is misunderstood in a negative way, as transgression...

What was the purpose of it all? What did He come to do? Well, to teach, of course; but as soon as you look into the New Testament or any oth...

The cover of my teenage copy of Elidor I have always been disappointed by Alan Garner's Elidor (1965); coming as it does between two of ...

One of the most profound distinctions (so-called 'polarities') forced upon us by these times, is the stark choice between each perso...

We modern Western intellectuals think a lot about human groupings on a large scale - 'society', nations, civilizations, Mankind... I...

This is perhaps going to be the great test of our times...  We have an evil, global totalitarian System - encompassing and linking all the m...

The problem of pain/ suffering in the world is often regarded, by modern Western people, as a decisive argument against the reality of the l...

There have been three main ways of understanding human creativity. The first was that the creative Man was a channel or conduit for the gods...

The Z Man is apparently a decent, intelligent and well-informed man who is trying to understand the modern world, one piece at a time, but ...

An excellent post from Francis Berger about the cultural changes in attitudes to death and what happens afterwards. It really is valuable t...

Some day, when I'm awfully low  When the world is cold  I will feel a glow just thinking of you  And the way you look tonight  Yes, you...