Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4571 )

• Holy Or Not?

  

  The ancient divine world was a slippery place. When you stop to think about it, this makes sense. The deities and demons of antiquity were invisible. Different... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Wired for Good

  

  I spend entirely too much time untangling wires. Recently I read a survey asking whether you’d rather face a robot uprising or a zombie apocalypse. There’s no... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Which Bible Again?

  

  Which Bible? That’s a fair enough question. No matter how much you want to deny it, western culture always has been and always will have been biblically based. Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ask an Evangelical

  

  News stories this year have plowed up a frequently repeated question: what’s an Evangelical? This was the subtext to a Washington Post story that declared... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Taming Shakespeare

  

  It hardly seemed credible, from what I heard in high school, that anyone would read Shakespeare if it weren’t required. I’m not completely naive, but I do wonde... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Belly Fires

  

  A friend recently sent me a story from Smithsonian.com about how Evangelicalism arose partially in reaction to protests against the Vietnam War. Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Secularcist

  

  It should be fairly obvious that I’ve been researching demons lately. In the current political climate, it feels like a natural thing to do. Where there are... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Latter-Day Scouts

  

  Physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. And prepared. That’s what Boy Scouts are supposed to be. My attempts to become an Eagle Scout were abou... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Of Gears and Gods

  

  We develop pictures in our minds of the kinds of things that belong together in different eras. Dinosaurs, for example, don’t belong with our own species, no... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Creating Afterlife

  

  Once upon a time I wrote a book on commuting. It never got beyond my laptop, but I often wonder if it was simply premature. Some stories from public transit... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Russian Passions

  

  Dmitri didn’t do it; guilty anyway. That’s it in six words. I have to confess my tolerance for really long novels isn’t what it used to be. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• For Mothers’ Sake

  

  We try to be practical for Mother’s Day. I take my wife out to eat every year, but since we both work and Monday always comes earlier than we expect, we... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Real Dreaming

  

  I keep odd hours. Although we don’t live far from New York City, as the pigeon flies, public transit sets the schedule for my day. (I’m merely writing as a... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Book Recommendations

  

  Working in publishing has its perils. One from my personal experience is that you run into many books you just have to read. Not necessarily for work, but... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Spiritual Walls

  

  I often ponder what a difference walls make. Perhaps our ancient, cave-dwelling DNA just runs away with imaginations, but walls make us feel safe. Most of the... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Measuring Immeasurables

  

  Are demons getting more active, or are people just believing in them more? Quite apart from what’s happening in the District of Columbia, there’s been a surge o... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Call It What You Will

  

  I didn’t even know the House of Representatives had a chaplain. Then Paul Ryan fired him. I wondered once again if evangelicals were interested in religion at... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Original Sinner

  

  Musical preferences are a personal matter. In the case of the kind that loudly thunders from open car windows, often they should be more so. Still, music is a... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Lazing Around

  

  I was a science nerd as a kid. Well, at least I had a real soft spot for charismatic megafauna, but who doesn’t? We had those cheap, plastic figurines of... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• In God’s Name

  

  If anyone ever bothers to go through my personal zibaldones (if the word’s unfamiliar, please use the search box for my post on it) they’ll find my personal... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY