Religion & Spirituality
American physicist Alvin Weinberg was Director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as a thoughtful amateur philosopher on the implications of his own work. One of the ways he made sense of his involvement in the development of nuclear weapons was to propose the concept of "The Sanctification of Hiroshima." Guest preacher Jake Morrill has served the UU congregation in Oak Ridge for almost twenty years, and knew Dr. Weinberg personally. This morning, he'll share Weinberg's concept as an invitation to reflect religiously upon the legacy of nuclear weapons. Since 2003, Jake Morrill has served as Lead Minister of the Oak Ridge UU Church in East Tennessee. A licensed therapist and former Chaplain in the U.S. Army Reserve, he is Associate Faculty at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family. He and his wife, Molly, have two school-age children, three cats, and a dog.