NOTE: This essay is an excerpt from my book, “Monuments: One Atheist’s Journey through Land, People, and Time.” This part takes a religious look at our nuclear missile defense system. “We,” by which I mean the society in which I am imbedded, thought we were doing a great thing when Enrico Fermi and his colleagues […]
Little Celebrations #13: Liturgical Quotables
Let us go resolutely into the days ahead, mindful that the sun turns on its wheel and life returns even to the most blasted land; that neither victory nor defeat is ever as absolute as it seems in the moment; and that the work which lies before us has ever lain before us, and will […]
Pine Ridge Reservation’s Uranium Problem
After I visited Wounded Knee in late 2015. It took hours to navigate Pine Ridge Reservation’s roads back to the Interstate. At one point I came to a “T” intersection. I pulled to a stop, facing a weathered strip of plywood nailed between two fence posts. Hand painted letters cried out, “NRC URANIUM EXPANSION HEARING. […]
Little Celebrations #12: Liturgical Quotables
Each of us goes through life self-contained and alone, within a space of soul from which we look out of the world, which no other may fully enter. Yet our soul-space becomes healthier, happier, wiser, and more fulfilled when we loosen our grip on it, look at others, listen to others, share with others, love […]
Of Lava Floes and Religious Insight
Camping at Idaho’s Craters of the Moon National Monument, can be a real source of religious insight. Looking down from a weather satellite, those black lava fields stand out like a sore thumb. The eruptions began through a 75-mile crack in the earth’s crust more than 10,000 years ago. The lava only stopped pouring forth […]
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