Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4141 )

• What You Eat

  

  The future of Sleepy Hollow is uncertain. The successful FOX television program has suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous scheduling over the past year... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Publishing Weakly

  

  Those of you who aren’t professional religionists might not understand the cultural impact of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literatur... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Somewhere out There

  

  If last month’s election taught us anything it’s that nobody really knows anything. For many years now I’ve been saying that the sign of an educated person is... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Monsters and Men

  

  Horror films are something you either “get” or you don’t. I have no empirical evidence for that, but then again, “getting” is hardly a precise verb. Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• December Demons

  

  Conversations with friends, inevitably, turn to the fiasco this country faces with Donald Trump. My response, apart from attempting a measure of optimism and... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hoping for Light

  

  Although the stores have been playing Christmas music for some weeks now, it is technically Advent. I think we could all use a little Advent as days grow shorte... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Protest Reading

  

  In these days of bold ignorance, reading in public is an act of resistance. A world that follows the uninformed to perdition requires those who stand as... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2016 RELIGION

• The Wicked Man

  

  I confess, it was a moment of weakness. Or I could say that it was dedication to research. In either case, I subjected myself to watching the remake of the... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fear of the Artificial

  

  As someone who dedicated four years—particularly long winter nights—to the cause of high school robotics, I found myself knowing quite a bit before I walked int... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mark of the Beast

  

  I grew up believing in “the Antichrist.” As I came to realize that much of the New Testament pointed to contemporary problems (for them) with the Roman Empire... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• True to Nature

  A friend recently sent me an article on Jack London from smithsonian.com. As the article by Kenneth Brandt makes clear, London is an author for our times. Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hollow Bible

  

  The proofs for my article on the Bible in Sleepy Hollow are now here. It will be appearing shortly in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. For those... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Holiday Season

  

  Now that the holiday season is upon us, I stop to think about what holidays really do. “Keep Christ in Christmas” signs have popped up like winter dandelions... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bibliotherapy

  

  This may sound strange, considering the source, but I fear I don’t read enough. An article by Sarah Begley in a recent issue of Time, reinforces what we’ve know... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Radio Nowhere

  

  Those of us who somehow managed to be educated without the use of computers, at least nothing more advanced than a TI-30 calculator, fumble our way through the... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Found in Translation

  

  Traduttore, traditore—“translators are traitors”—is an Italian saying invested with a great deal of truth. Anyone who’s worked with the proliferation of... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Abundance

  

  A few weeks before Leonard Cohen died I saw a story on how his song “Hallelujah” had been done to death. Covered and recovered, it seemed to be on every cover... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• United Or Untied?

  

  Beliefs can be most problematic things. I’ve spent the better part of the last five days in one of the reddest of “Red States.” People in Texas were... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• History and Its Discontents

  

  I’m standing in the lobby of the Menger Hotel. Before history becomes too falsified to recognize, I want to soak up the fact that Theodore Roosevelt organized... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Foundation Myths

  

  are some of my favorite myths. If you’ve got to believe in something, it may as well be something fun, right? Usually before I travel to a place I do some... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY