Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4117 )

• Books and Editing

  

  My life has been about books. It was only as I became what is now known as a tween that the passion took hold, but since that time I’ve been addicted to them. A... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Here Before

  

  Déjà vu can be quite disorienting. Déjà vu can be quite disorienting. One of the categories for my 2018 reading challenge is a book you can read in a day. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Personifying Evil

  

  Biographies seldom cover millennia. Even if one were to try to uncover all the scant facts on old Methuselah at 969 years, it would still fall short of four... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Refillable Ideas

  

  Maybe I’m too slow of thumb, but this ought to be simple. For many years I kept a small slip of paper in my pocket, along with a pen. Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mediating Reality

  

  The brain is one troubling organ. The gateway to both our thinking and our physical experience—as well as our survival—it tends to explain things in terms of... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Body Count

  

  While I’m privileged and proud to have been part of one of millions protesting over the weekend with our nation’s youth, I can’t help but be a little reflective... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hope for the Future

  

  I’m standing in a haunted place. There was an act of violence here this week. Gun violence. A man died in this restaurant where I sat with my wife and had... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Kids These Days

  

  I couldn’t have been an easy kid to raise. As a teen, while other kids were experimenting with drugs and sex, I started an unexpected habit. I can’t remember wh... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bearing Light

  

  Jeffrey Burton Russell knows a devil of a lot about the Devil. I’ve just finished the third of his five books on the subject, Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Group Activity

  

  While reading about various religious phenomena—both positive and negative—one of the recurring aspects that forces itself on our attention is contagion. Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Power of Literature

  

  Among the uber-wealthy families that America has produced were the Dukes. Most famous for the university that bears the family name, they made their money in... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hypocrisy, Defined

  

  Things look pretty Stormy in DC. I suspect my Republican background is showing when I say I don’t condemn sex workers. If they’re not exploited and they like... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Signs of the Times

  

  America’s phallic affair with guns should give us pause to wonder what the true motivation is. My wife sent me an NPR story on the World Peace and Unification... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Testamental Annihilation

  

  I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t tell you there may be spoilers below. The book to which I alluded last week—the one made into a movie—was Jeff Vandermeer’s... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Odd One Out

  

  The older I get, the more I realize I’m the one that’s weird. Go ahead and say it, “You’re just now figuring this out?!” This epiphany came to me on a stiff... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Experimental Truth

  

  Only the truly naive suppose that the government doesn’t lie. I just miss the days when they lied for what could be construed as good reasons. Now you can tell... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sky Mercies

  

  While in a used bookstore recently, I was going over the science titles. I like to read accessible science since I often find it approaches religious ideas in... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Belief Matters

  What you believe matters. This is shown clearly in the case of exorcism. Brian P. Levack admits to personal reasons for interest in this dark subject. Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Spoiler Alert

  

  I work in a cubicle. That’s just one word shy of the famed “six word novel” challenges. I’m wondering what qualifier I should add. To understand this dilemma yo... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Evil Masters

  

  Whoever Modern Mrs. Darcy is, she keeps me honest. This is my third year of doing her reading challenge, and in an effort not to go out and buy all the books I... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY