Steveawiggins

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• Remember This

  

  Have you ever had one of those days? You know the kind I mean—a day when you feel like you’re forgetting something. Wednesday was like that for me. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Memories of Scotland

  

  I admire those who follow their dreams. I have been writing fiction for over forty years now, and although I’ve had some success placing short pieces my novels... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Reading Bug

  

  With the sunshine coming in my office can feel pleasantly warm in winter. I chose this location not because of its southern exposure, but because it is a small... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• How To Study

  As much as I critique Calvinism, I participate in its hardness sometimes. For instance, when I was employed in higher education I would’ve considered reception... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fueling Fires

  Paying attention to world affairs can take all your time. In fact, for those who study foreign affairs, it practically does. I’ve been struggling with the fact... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quiet Night

  

  Reading challenges are a good way to expose yourself to books you might not otherwise find. This is my fifth time through the Modern Mrs. Darcy’s annual... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Space Farce

  

  Okay, so “Space Force” sounds like a gimmick that you’d see in a 1950’s ad geared to dungaree-wearing boys. These boys, who’d be named “Dick” would show the... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bodies and the Fall

  

  Less common than it once was, the term “Dark Ages” was formerly used to denote what in Europe was known as the Medieval Period. Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Integrity

  

  I’m not lying when I say untruth has been on my mind a lot. A few days ago I posted on freedom of speech and how it’s an ideal rather than an actuality. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Now You Don’t

  

  Quite some time ago I realized I should read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. What put me off, as usual, was length. Long books take a real time commitment, but... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Truth, Justice, and

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr. attended Boston University School of Theology long before I did. We remember him today as a great leader, a man willing to die for what... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Poe’s Demons

  

  In Nightmares with the Bible I use an idea penned by Edgar Allan Poe as one of the threads holding the book together. One early reader complained that Poe didn’... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Protest Day

  

  Today should be known as Protest Day. Three years ago with over a million others I marched in Washington. The media still routinely underreports the numbers... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Morality, by Contract

  

  So, maybe it’s the crazy wind that was blowing around here all day yesterday, but I’m beginning to wonder about corporate sanity (if there is such a thing). Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Amendments

  

  Funny thing about freedom of speech. It doesn’t really exist in a capitalist system. Words, I suspect the powers that be know, are extremely potent. Any system... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Qohelet’s Advice

  

  Academic hypersensitivity. I fear it’s on the rise. I know I’ve experienced it myself—that flushing rage and disbelief that someone has written a book on the... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dancing

  

  An artist is never really gone. I have been listening to Leonard Cohen’s posthumous Thanks for the Dance. Haunting in the way of Bowie’s Blackstar, there’s a... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Atlas

  

  The other day I had a hankering for Religion Index One. I don’t think it exists anymore, at least not in the format I once knew it. RI1 was a print volume... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Smelling Winter

  

  We’re experiencing the January thaw around here. This isn’t a scientific thing, of course, and it doesn’t happen every year. We had snow before Christmas, but i... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Geocheating

  

  So, we geocache. Not as much as we used to, but over 15 years ago my family and I began the sport and really got into it for a while. Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY