(This is another excerpt from my book, Monuments: One Atheist’s Intimate Religious Reflection.) I was driving across southern Idaho’s Snake River Plain, which is the bleak bosom of American Nuclear Research. More than 50 experimental nuclear facilities have been built there over the last two generations. My destination this day was the EBR-1 National Historic […]
Little Celebrations #14: Liturgical Quotables
We are graced by the beauty of the earth, the glory of the skies, and another week of journeying with those dear to us. We regret our weaknesses, missteps, and misfortunes even as we rejoice in our successes and the gifts which fall our way. We gather as an evolving religious community, partners in creation. […]
When Technology Outruns Reason, Pt. 1
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. […]
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