Blood and Soil and Blind Faith in The Holy Land
When we’re vilifying one side or the other for the senseless killing in the Middle East, chances are we’ve got the sides wrong.
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A.k.a. Christian K. Nordtømme is a Norwegian marketing coach and consultant helping entrepreneurs, leaders and superheroes.
He also writes about writing (in Norwegian) on Skriftlig.no, about marketing (in English) on medium.com/@chriskn, and about other, more random stuff on medium.com/@nordtomme (and at Substack)
How do Christians Know What to Believe?
The question in the title is sincere, and if you are a thoughtful, believing Christian, I hope you will answer it in the comments. But to get better answers, I want to give some context for the question, and hopefully challenge you a bit in the process.
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The Way We Think About Time is All Wrong
… and it makes us say and do silly things – like claim that the universe is 14 billion years old or compare ourselves to people born at approximately the same time as us. If we can change how we see time, we can see how silly that is, and maybe add some more time to our lives in the process.
Continue reading...Don’t Underestimate The Reckless Stupidity of Columbus
We’re coming up on that time of year, again, when we can’t agree on whether we should be celebrating Columbus or not. Much of the controversy has been debated to death, but I don’t think we’ve quite internalized, as a culture, quite what a remarkably reckless and ill-informed idea it was to sail west to Asia.
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Predicting the Collapse of Society
Book Review: End Times by Peter Turchin. An ambitious, but not exactly optimistic, take on history, current events, and our near future.
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