Bruce Charlton's Notions

Truth is a Christian value - indeed, without the historical influence of Christianity; then the seeking and speaking of truth would likely ...

So much of religious discourse through the ages revolves arouf the expectation or hope that people can be made good - that some external in...

For most of recorded civilized human history; mankind has been living in A System - but these Systems, like the organisms of biology, were o...

There are nested agendas at work in the world; a hierarchy of evil, in which each level has a different aim, and each manipulates and mislea...

Looking back and surveying memories; there are periods of my adult life when I seem never to have experienced participation.  I mean those m...

Things are much worse than most people think! That is clear from the "If only" conversations and writings that seem to have plague...

If you had asked me last week what was the most impressive literary town (not city) in England; I would probably have said Keswick , in the ...

The thing about paranoid and persecutory delusions (that is; beliefs that are false, strongly held, powerfully-motivating, in practice irre...

This Good Friday I find myself more-than-usually afflicted by the life-long prejudice against the time and place of Jesus's life and min...

Our thoughts may be transparent, but our fundamental selves are not. Thus God knows what we are thinking , but does not know our "heart...

Tolkien always stated himself to be a devout Roman Catholic; yet the specific details of what this meant for his personal life have, thus fa...

No - you should Not be worried about the adulteration of food.  I am sure that food is adulterated with all manner of undesirable things.  B...

This section of Philip K Dick's novel Valis (1981) always cracks me up, whenever I re-read it:  It was a mainstay of Kevin's bag of...

In the Fourth Gospel , I have found it is helpful to regard the word "light" as usually meaning "life" - in particular r...

The poignant chorus that opens Michael Tippet's A Child of our Time came to mind this morning, as I contemplated my sense of a turn tow...

For those unfamiliar with this blog, I should clarify my oft-reiterated view that - in broad terms - I believe that people "get what th...

I remain sure that we are walking a tightrope; vacillating on the cusp of WWIII... A situation quite deliberately contrived by the anonymous...

Palliative medicine is the name for a speciality when, at the end of life ( a terminal illness) the focus moves from curing to helping the p...

Why is Heaven postponed? Why should we be made to wait? Why can't we have Heaven now - whether here on earth, or elsewhere? Why are we c...

Observing the above at a pharmacist's, I was struck by the question of why on earth the manufacturers would suppose that I, or anybody e...

Some very famous and respected actors have a deficit that is not so much they can't act, but that - for whatever reason - they just don...