Steveawiggins

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• 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

• Strange Powers

  

  Some books take you to strange places. Not all of them are fiction. I began Nightmares with the Bible as a way of understanding the many, disparate ideas of... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cave Monsters

  

  A story in Discover back in December discusses cave drawings from Indonesia. Dating back almost 40,000 years before the creation of the world, these cave... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Search Yourself

  

  I was searching for someone on the internet (surprisingly, not myself). Since this individual didn’t have much of a platform, I looked at MyLife.com. Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Social Madness

  

  I’m reading a book written in the mid-1980s. (All will become clear eventually.) The author notes the connection between social madness and personal mental... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• United, We Divide

  

  I was a teenage Methodist. Or, I should say, a teenage United Methodist. My family had moved to a town where there were no Fundamentalist churches. Indeed, the... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droning On

  

  According to the New York Times (I don’t have a link, but Google will bring it up), nighttime drone formations have been reported by law enforcement in the... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• New Year Reading

  

  Childhood has a powerful draw. I first started reading Dark Shadows books when they were published for (I kid you not) 60 cents. I got them for cheaper than tha... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Few Days

  

  My fellow blogger over at Verbomania (worth following!) posted a piece on the word Romjul. In case you haven’t read the post, Romjul is the Norwegian word for... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Seaing 2020

  

  It’s funny what sticks in your head. As a ten-year-old 2020 seemed impossibly far in the future. And it was very wet. Not because of global warming, but... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hereby Resolved

  

  Photo credit: chensiyuan, Wikipedia CommonsNew Year’s resolutions have never been my thing. Having had a good Calvinistic upbringing, I’m a natural... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 2019 Books

  

  Goodreads is always a little eager to put the tally on a year’s worth of reading. This year, however, since I’ve been engaged in some larger books, they may be... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Falling

  

  Time. It’s a resource of which I’ve become acutely aware. If I probe this I find that among the assorted reasons is the fact that I’ve finished my fourth book... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Writing Prophets

  

  So I was sitting at a table with two writers I’d just met. It was at the Easton Book Festival and since I’m new to the area I was very aware that I didn’t know... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Biblical Employment

  

  The other day I read something where the author casually suggested some biblical personage was doing their job. That idea seemed to stick in my throat on the wa... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Virtually Religious

  

  “Which god would that be? The one who created you? Or the one who created me?” So asks SID 6.7, the virtual villain of Virtuosity. Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY