Bruce Charlton's Notions

I recently posted about some of the "Systems" which we might imagine God setting-up to provide humans with revelation; and someth...

Today we saw the base that remains from perhaps the oldest surviving decorated stone rood in England;  now forming the base of the font in A...

The ancient symbolisation of light (and white) for goodness used to be more than just symbolism. In the ancient past symbols were also reali...

An RAF spotters guide to identifying the He 113 - an aircraft that did not exist.  The extent to which it is true that we see what we expect...

If you were God the Creator, making this reality; and you wished to set-up a System for transmitting Revelations to humans, such as essentia...

Brian Kingcome , and Geoffrey Wellum in front of a Spitfire - Wellum's First Light is one of the most inspiring and beautiful Battle of...

Leftism is oppositional in its fundamental nature , and over the centuries it has accumulated many oppositions.  And, once an opposition has...

The kind of Christianity that I regard as necessary is one in which we approach the religious task of learning with a mind-set very differen...

I am a practitioner of the ancient craft of wet shaving with a safety-razer; and have often noticed that I make a "Mussolini face...

Have you ever noticed that when a lot of people convert to Christianity, or convert to a different denomination or church within Christianit...

Whenever I interact with the mainstream of institutional life, I am aware that the totalitarian omni-surveillance agenda continues, and co...

1. To know and desire resurrected eternal life in Heaven , after death.  This, with pre-mortal spirit life, is the frame for purpose in mort...

I have often discussed God as a dyad - conceptualized as Father and Mother, or God and Goddess - which, for me, goes with my understanding ...

I have often been puzzled why it is that the mass media Always lies about the people it is witch-hunting .  If you know anything of the real...

We had a very enjoyable visit to Carlisle Cathedral recently, not my first, or second - but I still feel there is a great deal more to disco...

In the past it was natural and spontaneous for people to trust institutions more than themselves - including churches, and especially church...

How should we read The Bible?  All possible answers to that question are necessarily based upon non-Biblical (extra-Scriptural) assumptions ...

Is this the fundamental nature of inter-personal communication? It seems evident that people in the past knew, or at least all assumed, that...

It seems a clear lesson of the past century that it is possible, it may even become normal (and "official" to live a human lifespa...

Given that the modern West is evidently both collapsing and being actively destroyed; it is natural to seek for another political-social-cul...

I really don't know we should make of the silly paranormal events of everyday life.  I had an extreme, and extremely trivial, example a ...