Uranium & Peace
I was outlining a sermon in a Jimmy John’s sandwich shop. Jimmy John’s puts inspirational, informational, and/or witty stuff on their walls. When you sit on the toilet, beside your feet are interesting facts about Uranus the planet.
In the dining room was a plaque displaying Warren Buffet’s 10 Rules for Success. They’re worth looking up on the Internet. They also made me think of a project I’d heard about involving leadership and investment from the Nebraska billionaire.
The project’s The International Uranium Bank whose first “branch” is opening in Kazakhstan. The idea is simple, elegant, and creatively peaceful.
As interest in nuclear power spreads to different countries, so does the pressure for more nations to learn how to enrich uranium. But, if you can enrich for power plants, it’s not tough to enrich for weapons.
No country owns The Uranium Bank; it’s an international attempt to say, “Get your uranium here, so you don’t have to enrich it there.” The bank’s existence undercuts the argument for having to learn how to enrich uranium.
It’s a creative way to say, “Nuclear weapons are horrible, and we want less of them.” It’s an assertive, visionary way to call for a more peaceful world.
Whether we are talking about our family or the family of nations, being a peace-making presence is not about having no desires of your own and so just going along with whatever other people want.
It’s about having a Jesus-shaped vision for creating a loving family, a more non-violent world; it’s about acting assertively to help give it birth.
That’s what Jesus was doing when he told us not to back down or strike out, but to turn the other cheek. That’s what Jesus was representing when he took up his cross and healed his world from it.
I was outlining a sermon in a Jimmy John’s sandwich shop. Jimmy John’s puts inspirational, informational, and/or witty stuff on their walls. When you sit on the toilet, beside your feet are interesting facts about Uranus the planet.
In the dining room was a plaque displaying Warren Buffet’s 10 Rules for Success. They’re worth looking up on the Internet. They also made me think of a project I’d heard about involving leadership and investment from the Nebraska billionaire.
The project’s The International Uranium Bank whose first “branch” is opening in Kazakhstan. The idea is simple, elegant, and creatively peaceful.
As interest in nuclear power spreads to different countries, so does the pressure for more nations to learn how to enrich uranium. But, if you can enrich for power plants, it’s not tough to enrich for weapons.
No country owns The Uranium Bank; it’s an international attempt to say, “Get your uranium here, so you don’t have to enrich it there.” The bank’s existence undercuts the argument for having to learn how to enrich uranium.
It’s a creative way to say, “Nuclear weapons are horrible, and we want less of them.” It’s an assertive, visionary way to call for a more peaceful world.
Whether we are talking about our family or the family of nations, being a peace-making presence is not about having no desires of your own and so just going along with whatever other people want.
It’s about having a Jesus-shaped vision for creating a loving family, a more non-violent world; it’s about acting assertively to help give it birth.
That’s what Jesus was doing when he told us not to back down or strike out, but to turn the other cheek. That’s what Jesus was representing when he took up his cross and healed his world from it.