Bruce Charlton's Notions

I am continuing to add to the new compilation blog "Bruce Charlton on Music" - most recently a post that might be useful to those ...

A problem that I experienced upon becoming a Christian, is that the standard model over the centuries is first to discover the true institut...

I have been reading magical fiction and fantasy since discovering Tolkien in 1972, and continued with a (partly academic) study of animism a...

Since reading Owen Barfield , in context of my preceding academic studies of human evolution; I have accepted that there has been (and is, o...

Following from yesterday's discussion ; I shall put forward here an explanation for those beings who are traditionally regarded as demon...

What seems to me a very powerful argument against the mainstream orthodox Christian notion that God-the-creator is both Good and an Omni-God...

I have added (and compiled) some more entries for the Bruce Charlton on Music blog - including an extended piece on Music in my Early Life ....

Saint Mungo (aka Kentigern) meets, debates and baptises Merlin (aka Lailoken) as depicted in Stobo Kirk, Scotland  Saint Kentigern (aka Mu...

Christians (of various denominations) often make a good deal of the assertion that Jesus Christ is King of the world, and the Universe - eve...

Although an irritating affectation among adolescents; there is more to the "So what?" attitude than is first apparent.  To respond...

In a universe consisting of eternal Beings, the question arises: When God made divine creation, what could he do with these already-existing...

Our fundamental assumptions concerning the nature of reality (i.e. our "metaphysical" assumptions) have a decisive effect upon our...

From the classical and Medieval eras, during which Christianity was established, the ideal was an overall religious basis for society, with ...

Project Hail Mary is a 2026 movie which I would recommend watching, because it is (overall) very well-made (well written, scripted, directe...

The doyen of precognition, fictional and IRL, is perhaps Philip K Dick : so much so that psychologist Anthony Peake wrote an entire book abo...

Many people know of Jerome K Jerome 's timelessly funny and period-charming account of a trip on the River Thames - Three Men in a Boat...

I have begun to compile a blog of my postings on music over the past sixteen years, selected from pieces published here; called Bruce Charlt...

It is dismaying to observe how many Christians, and other religious and spiritual people, get drawn-into saying (and trying to believe) stuf...

At the end of my teens, in the late summer and autumn (after my family moved from Somerset to Scotland), I seemed to go through a stage of d...

For Christians, Jesus is divine, and a creator: he created Heaven, and made it possible for us to resurrect to eternal life.  But Jesus is n...

When I argue that the essence of Christianity is Jesus's gift of post-mortal resurrected eternal life in Heaven; come people have said t...