Bruce Charlton's Notions

Ace of Wands was a very glamorous children's TV program from the early 1970s - a fantasy themed series with a leading character named T...

As I've said before, there are only four of Tippett 's works that I really like, all from his brief, early and 'lyrical' per...

We all need to escape - with a psychological need that gets more urgent and compelling as the bars of the Iron Prison close-in upon the who...

There are several pieces of traditional Christian good advice, which Christians feel 'safe' in swapping. These vary between denomina...

I am ever more convinced that evil requires our consent to harm us - and that most of the strategizing of evil is directed at getting people...

How does a mortal (Man, hobbit, dwarf) become more elvish; and what does that entail? I discuss some of the ways that Tolkien describes or i...

The reason I am so aggressive against the errors and accretions, the false and unnecessary aspects of Christian belief, is that for Christia...

Error 1. An exclusive focus on salvation - when theosis should be the main activity of mortal living Traditional theology has tended to make...

It seems clear that we are all of us raised to have at least one, but usually many, Achilles' heels - weak points in our world view,  t...

Probably a majority of real Christians in the past, for many centuries, were women. Of course, we cannot look into the souls of Men - but in...

Any medical intervention that has an effect but does not work - is harmful.   This is something I understood many years ago, during my medi...

One overarching goal behind the sexual revolution is the erasure of sexuality - of the distinction between man and woman, male and female, a...

Most Christians tend to regard this mortal life as a test - or rather as a series of tests. This is upside-down; because life is actually an...

Yes - but why? There seem to be two ways in which people have reached a correct understanding of what is going-on with the birdemic and the ...

Why are modern people so indifferent to resurrection and eternal life? Because they are all-but indifferent to the question of whether they ...

I take some ( but not most) prophecy - in the sense of prediction - seriously - as have almost all Men through history; therefore I need to ...

I post this prophecy  from before the birdemic for you to exercise your discernment upon. I do so because I found it both thought-provoking ...

"None are safe 'til all are safe" *** If WmJas Tychonievich is allowed serially to update us on his silly dreams - I don'...

My 'career' was always unconventional, and by conventional criteria pretty unsuccessful in terms of promotions, power, prestige and ...

The most important thing is life is supposed to be 'religion'. That is how Men are made - spiritually, and even biologically. Becaus...

" The peck" is a misnomer - not only because "peck" includes many and different agents; but because what is at stake is ...