Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4129 )

• Stonefaced

  

  Imagine, if you will, life on the open sea. Back in the whaling days. Days before enlightenment really took hold. Transpose that thought onto railroads. In a da... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rational Religion

  

  God, Reason and Religion, the title of Steven M. Cahn’s book, fit uneasily together. Or so it would seem. Cahn, a philosophy professor, collected together in... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Neander Valley

  

  Because we can—but should we? This is technological ethics in a nutshell. While we are still debating what it means to be human and the majority of people in th... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Twist and Shout

  

  True crime is not really my thing. I find regular life disturbing on a frequent basis, and reading about how someone willfully harmed another only seems to... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• King’s Highway

  

  Sometimes I forget the beauty of the Bible. With its constant current of misuse in our society, it is sometimes easy to forget that, like an abused child, the... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Money Poppins

  

  Easy answers seldom hold up. Generalizing is a way of dealing with the vast amounts of data people continually process. Now that many of us in the “developed”... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Angels of Ages

  

  February 12, 1809. Both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born. Some days can be momentous that way. Although I’d known about this coincidental birth for... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hardsell and Gospel

  

  When I find myself a considerable distance from my point of egress sometimes I have to take the subway to escape New York. Don’t get me wrong—I love New York,... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Deep Things

  

  Religion concerns itself with the big issues. The biggest. As a child, I remember wondering how anyone could be concerned with less than the ultimate. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Witnesses All

  

  “Only the bad man. I see. And you know these bad men by sight? You are able to look into their hearts and see this badness?” The words of Eli Lapp in one of... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 2014

  

  New York City, in a public place—I dare not say where—I see this sign. A certain Orwellian chill shivers my mind as I think back to 1984. Posters everywhere; yo... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Splice of Life

  

  Although not really scary, and although almost attainable with current technology, Dren is a curious monster. Many movies of the horror genre have explicit... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Here’s the Church, Here’s the Steeple

  

  Americans seldom seem to fuss much about religion unless they perceive that it is under threat. We’re real believers in religious liberty that way. The threat... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Soul University

  

  Cambridge, Massachusetts is a likable town. As students at Boston University my friends and I would occasionally take the red line to Harvard Square and... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• None Too Human

  

  Apropos of nones, CNN’s Belief Blog ran an opinion piece about the nones earlier this week. It seems that Rep. Kyrsten Sinema came out of the closet as a none a... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Leviathan’s Sibling

  

  Formulaic to the point of plagiarism at times, 1950s science fiction movies often follow the deeply worn ruts left by countless forgettable monsters. Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Out with the Old

  

  It’s become a time-honored tradition, as an old, secular year ends and a new one, brimming with potential commences, for various pundits to sum up the past... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Priests, Queens, Goddesses and Fruit

  

  “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fun Fiction

  

  While I tend to limit my ramblings to once a day, every now and again something prompts another little post once the bus finally gets in and before sleep... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mystique-alism

  

  Reading in a public place gives peer pressure an entirely new meaning. Public transit is a place where I spend at least fifteen hours a week. Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY