(Note: this post is an excerpt from my book, Monuments: One Atheist’s Tour of Time, Culture, and Meaning.)The morning after I viewed Hanford’s B-Reactor, the breeder reactor which produced the plutonium for the first generation of atomic bombs, I checked out the Hanford Reach Interpretive Center. Also called The Reach, that was a brand new […]
Little Celebrations #18: Liturgical Quotables
Let our church be a gift from each of us to the other. But even more let it be a gift from each of us to our community. Let us be a gathering place for the spirit, a refuge for hope, a beacon of inspiration, and a dynamo of life and justice for all. Let […]
When Technology Outruns Reason, Pt. 4
(Note: this post is an excerpt from my book, Monuments: One Atheist’s Tour of Time, Culture, and Meaning.) Plutonium is an artificial metal first synthesized in 1940. It’s easily oxidized, silvery gray, a bit like lead but heavier and much harder. A golf-ball size piece of plutonium weighs more than two pounds. If you try […]
Little Celebrations #17: Liturgical Quotables
To live our lives fully is, in itself, an act of faith. It is an investment and an appreciation: To go forth in belief that the product of our day will be worth the effort. When we invest in life, we live four important questions: What do I really want to see happen? What will […]
When Technology Outruns Reason, Pt. 3
(Note: this post is an excerpt from my book, Monuments: One Atheist’s Tour through Time, Culture, and Meaning.) As I was walking back to my car after visiting the Experimental Breeder Reactor-1 Museum, my eyes lit on two immense structures towering over one end of the parking lot. Referring back to my construction worker days, […]
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