Steveawiggins

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• Meatings

  

  It was almost a little too real. As I looked at the fake blood—this wasn’t a horror movie—I had a hard time accepting this wasn’t the real thing. I mean Beyond... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Clear Thinking

  

  I first heard of Norman Ohler’s Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich before it found a publisher. Even at that point I found the idea fascinating. My knowledge of... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Somebody’s Coming

  

  Sometimes updates don’t help. That’s because evil is so good at masquerading as righteousness that constant vigilance is required. Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Horror Homeroom

  

  With a happy coincidence I discovered a website called Horror Homeroom. Featuring articles and podcasts and reviews on horror films, I felt its siren call. Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Building on Water

  

  I try to keep up. Really, I do. Although my specialization is in ancient religions, at heart I’m an historian of ideas and I try to keep up with the origins of... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Private Matters

  

  Mercenaries have long been part of human culture. With some exceptions, people really don’t like to fight to the death meaning that wars have often relied on... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Whether Or Weather

  

  It was a self-inflicted double feature. I’d been pondering movies about the weather. Tons of movies have the weather in them, sometimes even as a significant... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Book Culturing

  

  The other day I met one of the organizers of the Easton Book Festival. Coming in October, this festival is something new. It took the efforts of a couple with... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fun and Fear

  

  It’s curious the way people find books. I sometimes see them advertised (the way publishers suppose people see them), but far more often I find them more... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Detective Daniel

  

  In a recent article, which will hopefully be published, I explore the origins of the horror tradition in the Bible. That should come as no surprise since the... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Turin Turnabout

  

  Turn about, they say, is fair play. Turin, on the other hand, is a city in Italy. Its claim to fame is a shroud housed there that is believed by many to be... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Religious Studies

  

  Prominent public intellectuals, as opposed to us obscure private ones, often brashly castigate religious thinking. They may be aware that the vast majority of... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Belonging

  

  You never know where you might find yourself, but wherever it is it’ll cost you some money. Well, at least in this instance it did. Nashotah House sent me... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Glossophobia

  

  For a guy so full of phobias that there’s no elbow room at Hotel Fear in my head, people are sometimes curious as to why I don’t suffer one of the most common... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hidden Monsters

  

  I don’t think much about having been born male. I’m starting to realize that that’s because I don’t have to. The same is true of being caucasian, although I’ve... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Aka

  

  “Professor?” While not technically correct, I was surprised and not unpleased to hear the title yesterday while on the streets of Easton. Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Summertime Boos

  

  There are so many of them that it’s difficult to keep up. Movies, I mean. And they can be an expensive habit. As some readers may know, I’ve followed The... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Begetting Fear

  

  Out on the nearby rail trail I use for jogging I often hear it. Gun fire. There’s a shooting range—out of sight, and hopefully, out of reach—not far from the... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Positive ID

  

  It’s a little bit worrying. Not just the GOP’s diffidence in the face of two mass shootings on the same weekend, but also the fact that the internet knows who... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Good Monster

  

  The little free library is a great idea. Just after our move last year we contributed to our local many times as we discovered duplicates in the process of... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY