Steveawiggins

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• Pleasant Dreams

  

  The last time I watched Pleasantville I didn’t have this blog running to discuss it. It was also during the Obama administration where it felt more like... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Righteous City

  

  I’m a stomach sleeper, if that’s not TMI. This began many years ago when I realized that upon awaking from nightmares I was always on my back. Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Odyssey in Blue

  

  Now I have the United bastardization of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” stuck in my head. This comes from listening to the same recording approximately a... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eternal Return

  

  For those of you who don’t live, eat, and breathe academic religious studies, it’s my duty to point out that the American Academy of Religion and Society of... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Knowing How To Know

  

  Some questions are deceptively simple. For example: how do you know? The fancy philosophical word for this is “epistemology,” although that often takes it a ste... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Paying Troll

  

  There was a time, should the media of my youth be believed, when a man insulted another man’s wife at his peril. A barroom fight, or perhaps a sober brawl, woul... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Goddess Lore

  

  From where I sit to write this blog in this particular season (when it’s too cold to sit in an unheated attic) I watch Venus rise in the eastern sky. Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Centuries

  

  Although it may not be obvious, history marks us as hopelessly shortsighted. As a species we’ve only been keeping written records for about four millennia. Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• And Found

  

  For a kid who grew up on a steady diet of television, I have to admit being out of practice. A combination of Gilligan’s Island and Dark Shadows informed much o... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Residual Thoughts

  

  I feel compelled to say that this book was not among the overwritten tomes I mentioned in yesterday’s post. Indeed, although the title reflects the outlook of... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Universal Books

  

  I’m reading an overwritten book right now. In fact, I just finished an overwritten book. Such works, I suppose, are the results of being taught how to write. Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Whose Canon Is This?

  

  Being a Bibles editor, I suppose, is a rare kind of job these days. The book that defined our culture now rests in the back seat under discarded fast food bags... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Giving a Hand

  

  A friend sent me a news story that really spoke to me. A bookstore in England, forced to move because of rent, asked for volunteers to help move their stock to ... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• V November

  

  “Remember, remember the fifth of November,” begins the parable V for Vendetta before opening on a government not unlike our own. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Myth of the Extra Hour

  

  The selling point of an extra hour of sleep is, unfortunately, a myth. I’m not talking about young people who can sleep on demand, but your average, everyday... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Last Call

  

  The alarm that wakes you in the middle of the night. There’s something primal, something visceral about that. We humans, at least since our ancestors climbed... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Leftovers

  

  It looks like I forgot to click “publish” yesterday, so my blog post never appeared.  With apologies for doubling up, I need to complete the trilogy today. Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• November Novina

  

  One of my New Testament professors was fond of saying early Christianity was exclusive so that people would want to join. “If everybody could be a Christian,” h... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Halloween Mood

  

  As America becomes scarier and scarier, I appreciate the fact that I grew up loving Halloween. I don’t know why the dark mood appeals to me—I don’t like being... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Body Or Soul?

  

  Something’s wrong with Buddy Love. He doesn’t act like a professor. Meanwhile, Sherman Klump, heavyset but brilliant, feels that human companionship is passing... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY