Bruce Charlton's Notions

A problem we have - a real problem! - is that "doing good" does not mean that good is done.  Of course, in practice, this was usua...

I recently attended choral evensong at King's Bollege Bambridge - which is perhaps the most famous choir, and choral venue, in the worl...

A lot of self-identified Christians believe that it is right and "Christian" to give institutions and powerful persons "the b...

 About four years ago, I picked up secondhand a few of the first published Biggles books (by WE Johns), which triggered a serious revival of...

The earliest recorded ("Pre-Socratic) ancient Greek philosophers were metaphysicians who seem to have been focused on explaining change...

Theory is always and necessarily a simplified model of reality. Extremely simplified - because everything in the universe is left-out, exce...

John: 12: 3-8. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hai...

  I nstead of a Dark Lord, you would have A Cat!  Beautiful and terrible as the dawn! T empestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundat...

What we have witnessed over the past century is the failure of each and all Systems to be sufficiently spiritual that they can avoid the gra...

As I like to do from time to time, I'm taking a break from monitoring and moderating comments. Old comments are hidden but not lost, and...

If you can imagine yourself to be a human from another planet who had arrived to observe the denizens of the "Western" civilizatio...

One of the multi-pronged and actively-corrupting effects of the current global establishment push of so-called text and image-generating ...

I have been blogging recently about the idea that Jesus's "cosmic" role was the Second Creation that is Heaven - Jesus made p...

Ever since I became self-aware in my mid teens, I have valued "enchantment" - that magical quality of what I might now call "...

The entities of this world (excepting demonic spirits or resurrected angels) are mixed  B eings, including illusion and evil as well as good...

Claims of mystical experience are not popular in our culture!  There are bad and good reasons for this:  A bad reason is that (in a world wi...

There is a recurrent spiritual problem in relation to what might be termed will-power . A vast amount of spirituality has been, and is, abou...

The reality-based sense of cosmic significance  needs to be distinguished from this-worldly, here-and-now importance - especially in this wo...

Young children have an innate sense of the "cosmic significance" of what they do - and what they think. At such an age, our selves...

We all agree that this isn't reality - but what is ?   There is a deep confusion as to the nature of reality.  People are, much of the t...

Huge subject - but I've been reading memoirs and histories of WWII in the past couple of years, and pondering the spiritual effect this ...