Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4571 )

• Dawn’s Early

  

  Early to bed, early to rise, and people’ll think you’re weird. At least in my experience. Making an island into the place where hundreds of thousands have to... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Evangelical Angst

  

  Unless you know what it’s like to face life with no real prospects beyond making it to Heaven when you die, you can’t understand evangelical angst. That last... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Doubting Normal

  

  The problem with being mainstream is that you have a hard time impressing anybody. “Mainstream church does something normal” is hardly an eye-catching headline. Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sects on the Highway

  

  Here in the east, it’s not unusual to see Amish buggy road caution signs. Well, not so much in New Jersey, but in my somewhat frequent trips into Pennsylvania... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Excavating Above Ground

  

  It’s like a horror movie. You’re about to enter a place where the dead were laid to rest. You’re out in the remote Orkney Islands, and nobody knows you’re here. Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rains and Bows

  

  It’s raining and I’m here for an outdoor event. Here, in this case, is Ithaca, New York. The event is the parade that’s an integral part of the Ithaca Festival. Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Redefinition

  

  The striking thing about Evangelicalism is its protean nature. The earliest forms of this conversion-based “Christianity” began with the Reformation among... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Only Which King James?

  

  Nothing is as simple as it seems. Not that the Bible ever claims simplicity for itself. Among those who make up their minds before seeing all the evidence,... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Hardest Part

  

  The waiting, Tom Petty suggested, is a most difficult portion (no copyright violations!). The late, great departed rocker had a point. Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Apb

  

  It’s disconcerting. Being mistaken for somebody else. I suspect I’m not alone in having shown up somewhere I’ve never been before only to have people mistake... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A New Look

  

  I beg the indulgence of my regular readers as I post a public service entry today. As I noted a few weeks back, I have filled the allotted free space on... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Driving Truth

  

  One of the problems with driving is that you can’t get pictures of billboards. Well, given the way people drive around here, I suspect that may not always be... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• My Heavens

  

  The details escape me. I was a student at Grove City College, working on a paper. In the library I ran across an article about a rain of fish. Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Breaking News

  

  Herostratus, it is said, tried to destroy the Temple of Artemis so that he might become famous. His name is now associated with gaining fame at any cost. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• What Lies Ahead

  

  Things change. You’d think the fact that we all now carry the internet around in our pockets would’ve demonstrated that. What did President Nixon ever tweet?... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fictional Facts

  

  “If you want truth,” Indiana Jones famously said, you need to go to philosophy class. The sad fact is most people have little practical training when it comes t... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Day of Memorials

  

  I admit that I’m as guilty as the next guy of thinking of holidays primarily as a day off work. A boon from the gods of capitalism so that we can come back to... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Biblical Popes

  

  It was the end of the world. The year was 1979, if I recall. One of those occasional manias that sweep the nation weighed heavily upon my high school. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eternity, Technically

  

  When the robot uprising comes, we have a factor in our favor, we biological beings. That is our parts, although they do break down, generally heal themselves. Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Crafting Magic

  

  There’s a disingenuousness about an extremely wealthy white man claiming he’s the victim of a “witch hunt.” Such super-slurring devalues the many thousands of... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY