Steveawiggins

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• Winter Travels

  

  Every now and again you read a book that drops you into a world of wonder. That’s how I’d describe Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller. What’s... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Double the Magic

  

  Since The Prestige came out over a decade ago I’m not going to worry too much about spoilers below. This post also comes with another caveat: if you watch this... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Youth Evolving

  

  Picture a picture. A photograph. I’ve got a specific one in mind, but it’s likely one you’ve not seen. Any photograph will work for this lesson, but if it’s... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Chilly Fluids

  

  I’m not sure why I did it. Read In Cold Blood. I’d known of Truman Capote’s main claim to fame for years, but an accidental recent mention, a cheap copy in a... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Patchwork

  

  I don’t wear clothing with advertisements. Perhaps it’s my Quaker-like sensibilities, or maybe it’s just that I hate being a shill. What has any corporation don... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Root of All

  

  The other day I was in one of those stores where everything is sold really cheaply. I figure it helps balance out all those times when I’ve been overcharged... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eastern Canon

  

  It’s complicated. The Bible, that is. Tracing its origins as a book can easily occupy a lifetime, but the issue that keeps coming up with Scripture is how,... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mission Impossible

  

  You can always tell Jehovah’s Witnesses by their tracts. When I heard a tap, tap, tap on my front door the other day I was handed a flier and a cheery invitatio... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Chapter and Verse

  

  Maybe like me you’ve read some arguments based on chapter and verse. I should mention that I mean chapter and verse in the Bible. The typical scenario will go... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Reboot

  

  It lied to me. My computer. Don’t get me wrong; I know all about trying to save face. I also know my laptop pretty well by now. It was running slow, taking... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Spoken Against

  

  “Antilegomena” is a word that appears more often in New Testament studies than it does in those of the Hebrew Bible. Still, it’s an important part of the... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• You Call That Working?

  

  A recent post of mine on the United Methodist Church got a lot of response (for me, anyway) on other social media. As I pondered this—I’ve written about the... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Devil Or Con?

  

  You can’t believe everything you read. That’s one of the first tenets of critical thinking. This whole process is about how to get to the truth, and in a... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Common Tyrants

  

  “Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects.” The words aren’t mine, nor are they from this century. That, however... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quoth Hardy

  

  There are days when the quote from an author is the best thing to happen to me. You probably know those kinds of days—days when there’s nothing really to stay u... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Your Parents’ Bible

  

  As someone always interested in origins, I reflect on how I’ve ended up the way I have. I mean, who plans to end up a Bibles editor? In the grand scheme of a... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Saint Lent

  

  Photo credit: Andreas F. Borchert, WikicommonsLent, among the denominations that observe it, is intended as a time of intense reflection. Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Culpability Defined

  

  What seems to be lacking in the United States government is any realization that actions have consequences. While in Christchurch, New Zealand at least 49 peopl... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Rules of Waiting

  

  Tom Petty must’ve been a commuter. On a winter’s morning after switching to Daylight Saving Time, waiting is the indeed the hardest part. For a bus, that is.... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• If It Itches

  

  The problem, or rather a problem, of growing up Fundamentalist is taking things literally. I suppose we’re all born naive realists, learning only later that... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY