Bruce Charlton's Notions

From the Two Towers movie - Merry and Pippin, and Ugluk: everybody's favourite middle manager   The mass media thrives on conflict and c...

It is a bad habit of Christians (under tough questioning and the stress of pervasive modern evil) when it gets down to specifics ; to take r...

[Note: This is to extract, make explicit and clarify something very important that I have said and used many times in many blog posts.]  Eve...

Things are bad in the world! Satan's side in the spiritual war of this world had a great victory in early 2020, successfully achieving a...

A surprising proportion of the most powerful people in the world are above retirement age - and some very old indeed by world historical sta...

A false metaphor is a gift to the devil; and the metaphor of choosing the right hill to die on is an example.  Behind the phrase is the idea...

Sewingshields on Hadrian's Wall, under which King Arthur sleeps with his knights until needed - or perhaps, Arthur's Seat in Edinbur...

I have noticed that most people who are 'concerned' about the direction the world is taking are clearly unaware of the actual state ...

The simple answer is that the anti-establishment counter-culture went-into novels, plays, poems, visuals, TV, movies and online.  In media t...

It seems possible that Christianity came very early to Britain, shortly after the ascension of Christ, and probably to Glastonbury; at the t...

This vital question is given an excellent answer by William Wildblood in his post today  Edited excerpts follow - but read the whole thing.....

That The Enemy are liars - and fundamentally so, because they deny reality - raises the temptation of trying to counter Enemy lies with ...

 As a young child, aged about five or six, I quite suddenly became afraid of death. That is, I became afraid of other peoples' death - ...

One of the most powerful experiences of my life was at the end of a 1978 live performance (from Scottish Opera) of  Der Rosenkavalier by Ri...

There are so many misleading things said about 'prayer' that it seems to me yet another subject on which we must each, individually,...

We are children of God; but that fact means we are as varied in our destinies as mortal children of human parents. As the best human parents...

We have all, by now, taken sides in the spiritual war; and nowadays it is usually obvious which side.  Of course, most people can change sid...

Because modern leftism is - more and more - a matter of value-inversion; They often adopt Good forms while reversing their purposes.  For ex...

Something that seems to have happened over the past 18 months is that those who have long been on-the-side-of evil have moved from passive t...

The moonbeams kelter i the lift,  An Earth, the bare auld stane,  Glitters aneath the seas o Space,  White as a mammoth's bane.  An, lif...

  The corrupting effect of the One Ring continued even after the book and the movies...  Scenes from the Big Bang Theory sitcom    Was the m...