Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4110 )

• See Above

  

  As we slide beneath the hegemony of technology, I’m impressed by the redefinition of vocabulary it demands. Because new printing technologies assume, for... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• On Target

  

  Time, especially weekend time, is a non-renewable resource. Since I barely have enough time as it is, I do my best not to squander it. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Lagoon

  

  My current book project has me watching The Creature of the Black Lagoon again. One of the Universal monsters—indeed, arguably the last of them—the Gill-man... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dolls and Puzzles

  

  Maybe you’re anticipating it too. Annabelle Comes Home, I mean. My latest book, Nightmares with the Bible, has a chapter on The Conjuring universe, and with... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Taking and Giving

  

  Dystopias are among my favorite kinds of literature. Things tend to go wrong in human society, and although we’ve made great progress over the past couple of... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Let It Lie

  

  At the grave risk of over-simplifying, the list is brief: destructive scapegoating behavior, intolerance of criticism, concern with public image, and... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Targeted by Technology

  

  We get along in life, I believe, by routinely ignoring the rather constant dangers that surround us. Oh, we’ve taken care of the larger faunal predators, but... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Identified Or Not

  

  Okay, so this will require some explanation. It came about like this: I was in a used bookstore. (This in itself requires no explanation, of course. Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Time Off

  

  Perhaps you’ve noticed it too. Time away from work has an utterly different feel from time on the job. Those rare individuals who really love their professions... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Premature Burial

  

  I have recently finished writing an article for a collection of essays on the Bible and horror. Have no fear—I’ll pass along details once it’s published. I do... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Adversaries

  

  Satan isn’t who we think he is. Inheriting a tradition from across centuries, it can be easily supposed that modern ideas help to explain the reality of that... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tyranny of Plants

  

  Notwithstanding what I wrote yesterday, there is a tyranny of plants. Specifically those which make up lawns—in my case, mostly weeds. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• World Environment Day

  

  Do you like where you’re living? Planet earth, I mean. Today is World Environment Day. It’s not enough of a holiday to score time off of work, but it is well... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Leggo My Lego

  

  Given my proclivity to seek the profound in what is often considered the banal, I have been mulling over The Lego Movie. Before you cast the first brick, yes,... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Epistemic Epistemology

  

  I’ve been thinking about thinking, if you’ll pardon my meta. More to the point, I’ve been thinking about what happens to thinking when it becomes writing. Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Refuge in Diversity

  

  The Easton Saturday morning farmer’s market is a happening place. Daring to spend a non-raining Saturday away from mowing, my wife and I decided to check it out. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Q

  

  If you haven’t spent much of your precious time attending to theories of how the gospels were written, you might not be familiar with the dilemma I’m about to... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Evil Origins

  

  I remember well the eerie, uncanny feeling I had as a child reading Genesis 6.1-4. This wasn’t a story we heard in Sunday School, and it wasn’t in any children’... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not from Nazareth

  

  The world just doesn’t feel safe any more. I’d better give a little context as to why. You see, I just learned that what I thought was the work of carpenter ant... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Trees and Cities

  

  Some years ago I decided I’d read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I had no idea what it was about, but I’d heard cultural references to it over the years. So I decide... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY