Steveawiggins

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• Author Revise Thyself

  

  Monster fans may have noticed that, despite the season I haven’t been writing much on the topic. One of the reasons for this is that I’m in that dread stage... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Seventies

  

  It’s pretty rare for me to be out on a week night. Like a kid on a “school day” I’ve got to get up early the next morning. And yawning a lot at work is bad form... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Who Cares?

  

  America’s all about money. I read quite a bit about care-related exhaustion, and being in a situation where several family members are requiring care I’ve... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Frozen Streams

  

  I was walking in Ithaca, with my feet not far from Sagan. Winter had settled in prematurely, as it often does in upstate. I was wearing a hoodie and old fleece... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Happy Science

  

  Many seem to be wondering, if the media are to be believed, why America, like REM, is losing its religion. (And yes, I know that the expression for the latter... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tmi

  

  Recently I was left alone for the entirety of a Saturday. On rare days when I feel affluent, I’ll go and purchase supplies to take on the many tasks that need... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dead Language

  

  Tis the season for returning from the dead. Goodreads is one of the few websites that I allow to send me notices. I try to check them daily, and I even read... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The New Light

  

  Sometimes you meet kindred spirits in books. Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark has been waiting patiently. It’s one of those books that I... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Old Grains

  

  Back when I was somebody—a professor is somebody, even if only a seminary professor—I was invited to meet with a group of Seattle writers and intellectuals. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Greatest Weakness

  

  What a privilege it must be to work in a world of ideas! (And to get paid handsomely to do so.) My particular (and peculiar) career—if that’s what you call it—i... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The God Test

  

  Humans don’t mean to be cruel, I’m pretty sure, when they test animals for intelligence. We’re a curious lot, perhaps a bit too self-absorbed, but we want to... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quiet Now

  

  The funny thing about my movie watching is that it’s a reflection of my scattered lifestyle. While I was teaching my career progression was linear with a goal o... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Outdated Commandments

  

  Recently, according to an ABC story a friend sent me, some self-righteous Catholics stole indigenous statues from the Amazon from a location in Rome. Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Whose Computer?

  

  Whose computer is this? I’m the one who paid for it, but it is clearly the one in control in this relationship. You see, if the computer fails to cooperate ther... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Panic at the Bookstore

  

  Usually it works like this. I go into a used bookstore with a list of titles I’d like to find. Yes, I know I can look them up on Amazon and pay some price gouge... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Homemade Halloween

  

  Halloween is a holiday that brings together many origins. One of the more recent is the tradition of watching horror movies in October. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• After Easton

  

  I’m still recovering. The Easton Book Festival was a fine example of liminal time. Ordinary time—the day-to-day, or “workaday” variety of time—may pay the... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Clean Thoughts

  

  Brainwashing, it seems, does not exist. Many of us who remember at least bits and snatches of the Vietnam War and the subsequent fear of cults, grew up hearing... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rivers and Books

  

  “You can’t” Heraclitus said, “step into the same river twice.” The same also applies to reviewing books on Goodreads. I met my official pledge of 60 books... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Read a Book

  

  A huge shout-out to Andrew Laties for conceiving and organizing the Easton Book Festival! Easton may not be the largest city in the state, but the Lehigh... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY