Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4571 )

• Look Both Ways

  

  One of the things I miss the most about my teaching career is learning from the young. While some professors in my experience believed the learning only went on... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Appily Ever After

  

  While in the theater to see The Nun (which ended up being the biggest take) this weekend, I couldn’t help but notice that the pre-movie adds were all about apps. Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Nun Among Them

  

  Life is sweet when watching a horror movie counts as research. It’d be sweeter, of course, if a university paid for it, nevertheless, I went to see The Nun on... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Museum Haven

  

  At various points of my career I’ve applied for museum curator positions. Since those who actually land those jobs have degrees in museum studies, I’ve never... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Galilean Blues

  

  Call me nostalgic, but growing up Fundie, “Capernaum” tripped easily off my lips. In fact, it was a word I heard very frequently at church, always pronounced... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Metrics

  

  So, we’re firmly in the age of technology, right? I mean webpages are tailored to the browsing history of a person so someone we don’t know can sell us stuff... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Stand-in Line

  

  Pop culture borrows from religion without knowing it. Or maybe it’s just that religion has become so irrelevant that people no longer care. Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cthulhu You Knew

  

  Humans tend to be visually oriented. Arresting images stop us cold, causing us to focus on what we’re seeing. As a tween I could be transported by large,... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Book Naked

  

  Alogotransiphobia doesn’t just strike me when I’m on the bus. Whenever I travel anywhere I try to take a book along. To the DMV. To movie theaters. To take the... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Persistence of Unity

  

  I came across some Ray Bradbury books while unpacking. I recently learned that Ray Bradbury was a Unitarian. Now, the religion of a writer is only ever an... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Kind of Happening

  

  The roofers were here. One of the things you learn only after laying down a ton of money is that those selling a house like to withhold information. Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hashtag MAGA

  

  Mental Acuity Gone, America? When facts face a nation, naked, unobscured, and the faithful still deny them, we’re truly on hallowed ground. Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Star in the East

  

  The times they are a, well, you know—nobody wants to violate copyright. In any case, nothing stays the same for long. New York, for example, is a city in a... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Truth Under Fire

  

  As Evangelicals continue their unflinching support for Trump, Rudy Giuliani has at last said something that rings true with these “Christians.” According to a... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Financial Ethics

  

  In a conversation with a professional colleague recently, I was discussing what might happen to ethics when sex with machines becomes common. Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Away and a Stranger

  

  “And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem. Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Horse Senses

  

  If a horse can be made a senator, surely an ass can be made a president. History can be unkind to those who think too highly of themselves. It’s a horse of a... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Distortion of Absence

  

  I’m sure it’s happened to you, too. After some time away, you return to somewhere familiar. For some reason this doesn’t seem to apply to places you spend only ... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Homework

  

  I’m trying to organize a home office. Gone are the days that this meant a stapler and mug full of pencils. The office is essentially a laptop since work is... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Enoch Enough

  

  For a person referenced so little in the Bible, Enoch captured popular imagination in a way difficult to comprehend. Even in ancient times speculation about... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY