I am Chris K. N.

and I write and I help people with their marketing

April 6, 2024

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.

December 10, 2023

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.

November 30, 2023

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.

September 30, 2023

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.

September 13, 2023

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.