Steveawiggins

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• Conversations

  

  Arnold Lakhovsky, The Conversation, via Wikimedia CommonsWhile I tend not to discuss books on this blog until I’ve finished them, I realize this practice comes... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• First Christmas Parable

  

  The Christmas story is full of surprises. This year near Bethlehem, a parable occurred to me. Like many parables, it raises questions. A question for all you me... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Seasonal Reading (Not)

  

  I might excuse writing a post on Satan on Christmas Eve by positing that I misread the title of this book as Santa. After all, as Ryan Stokes explains, the Gree... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Truth Lies

  

  I recently saw a Trump supporter claiming, unsurprisingly, that everyone’s lying except Trump. Of course, I could be lying. According to the Washington Post,... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Place of Temples

  

  Gobeklitepe, or more properly, Göbekli Tepe, stunned the archaeological world a few years back. This site in what is now Turkey contained what is apparently a... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shortest Day

  

  This is it. It’s here. Today marks the winter solstice, the longest night. Those who campaign to keep Christ in Christmas prefer not to acknowledge that the dat... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fearful Faithful

  

  It’s sitting on the table next to my chair and I’m afraid of it. It all started during the Easton Book Festival. I feel sorry for those people who have to... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Veg Out

  

  It came to me vividly when I heard a speaker self-deferentially say he was crazy. This was, I suspect, a way of defusing the fact that when vegans speak others... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• All in This Together

  

  The rain falling from the dark sky is barely liquid. The thermometer reads 33 as we step out into the early evening—this is not the kind of night I’d want to... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sci-Fi Culture

  

  I’ve recently taken up rereading Ray Bradbury stories from my childhood. Bradbury’s difficult to classify, but he’s often genrefied as science fiction, but... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Aging Goddesses

  

  While not a woman, I am over fifty and I have both a personal and professional interest in goddesses. Some friends recently asked how I came to write a... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• I Swear

  

  The ongoing political fiasco of our nation (and within several states as well), raises a very basic issue. We trust our legislators to do what we pay them to... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gods and Fans

  

  The blog Theofantastique started a couple of years before this one. I remember that sense of childhood wonder that flooded me when I first saw its posts about... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Assume Nothing

  

  You know what I’m talking about.It’s rude.Disorienting, isn’t it?One of my greatest bêtes noires is the email that only gives enough information to frustrate... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Jeremiah’s Lamentations

  

  Fundamentalists live in a supernatural world, otherwise their view of the Bible simply can’t hold up. I’ve read or studied about the Bible for well over forty... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Making Memories

  

  I’m a little suspicious of technology, as many of you no doubt know. I don’t dislike it, and I certainly use it (case in point), but I am suspicious. Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Job’s Jobs

  

  Many years ago, after Nashotah House decided it no longer required my unique outlook, I bought a book. (That’s my default reaction.) This book was on how to... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Powerful Wink

  

  Those of us who became academically aware (in the biblical field) in the 1980s knew the name of Walter Wink. Now, if you’ve ever become academically aware, you... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• New Religion

  

  Republicanism, it seems to me, has become its own religion. It started off when the GOP married evangelical Christianity, but the offspring of that unholy... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• To Be Continued

  

  I’m about in the middle of Neal Stephenson’s Fall: Or Dodge in Hell. I’ve also just about finished Walter Wink’s Naming the Powers. Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY