Human beings are called to feel, to reason things out, and to practice compassion. Because without those higher inclinations, our own weakness, desire, fear, and the ways of the mob, trample all human potential. The shadow side of human nature is strongest when we make war. As I’ve said many times, to go to war […]
Little Celebrations #19: Liturgical Quotables
It does not serve us to separate the spirituality of our hearts from the spirituality of our hands. Trees and flowers soothe the soul, but a garden untended soon clogs from leaves and draught, then withers and dies. To truly mean something, ultimate reverence and deepmost principle must transport us not just toward high sentiments […]
When Technology Outruns Reason, Pt. 5
(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 […]
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