Bruce Charlton's Notions

An excellent encapsulating blog post on 'current events' from William Wildblood really gets at the root of things.  Some edited/ ex...

The FE2 was a British two seater biplane from the first world war, the last successful 'pusher' genuinely-propeller aircraft, befor...

The main thing to grasp about our current situation in the world is that it is essentially unprecedented.  Is that so hard to understand?  O...

I've been blogging for a while about my conviction that the "Sorathic" demons-of-destruction are now displacing the "Ahr...

I was surprised but pleased to see that my long-running Tolkien/ Inklings blog The Notion Club Papers features at 10th place in Feedspot...

Objectivity has always proved difficult/ impossible to define philosophically; but it used to have the operational definition that it referr...

Remember a couple of years ago when the mass media was full of stories about how social media was going to ban flat earth and other 'har...

That we should try and understand creation from God's point of view was a recurrent theme in the work of William Arkle  - and one of the...

Franz Schubert was one of the great tune-smiths of classical music, whose melodies have a distinctive freshness and yearning poignancy - per...

Discuss...

Following from yesterday's post ; it seems that the modern Western experience of becoming (or remaining) a Christian is experienced very...

I am becoming ever more convinced that we are called to a creative role in this mortal life; and indeed that anything less than such a calli...

The nature of human consciousness Now is that truth must be chosen .  This means that there is Truth (i.e. God, divine creation and its valu...

I keep recurring to the idea that, starting around the millennium, there was a progressive change in human consciousness that led to our pre...

A few things that have been done and are proceeding apace:  1. The global Establishment are destroying the world economy (including food su...

Over the past several centuries there has been a rapid Christian apostasy, rejection of the reality of the spiritual, and in general secular...

Courage is a virtue, indeed - as CS Lewis said  - it is "the form of every virtue at the testing point". In other words, unless th...

In The Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis talks about the 'undulations' of Christian life; the high and low phases of faith and doubt, bl...

Mysticism is often defined with inclusion of the assertion that it is a primary and universal experience - common to all and no religions.  ...

Discernment of evil can be difficult - but nowadays, for Christians, it just gets easier all the time! Pick your favourite evil liar - the p...

Leftism (conceived as a long-term Satanic plan directed against God, divine creation and The Good; and aiming at - pretty much - exactly whe...