Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4659 )

• 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

• Strange Passions

  

  In Holy Horror I make the suggestion that Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ can be considered a horror film. It certainly has more gratuitous blood and gor... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Christian Nationalism

  

  Apparently we’ve forgotten the Second World War. In our touch-screen, never-have-to-get-off-the-couch culture of convenience, we’ve completely disregarded the... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pittsburgh Demons

  

  Far be it from me to question someone else’s demons, but every story has at least two sides. After reading Bob Cranmer and Erica Manfred’s The Demon of... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Good Book Gone Bad

  

  The Bible is a book of horror. This isn’t the main point in Holy Horror, but the fact is terror is never far from the surface in the Good Book. Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Defining Evangelicals

  

  Like most Americans I have trouble getting over the button-down image of Evangelicals that has now become so distinctive. In reality Evangelicalism has nothing... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Zombie Wars

  

  I suppose, rationally considered, most monsters can’t possibly exist. Maybe that’s the psychological relief required to enjoy the movies made about them. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Indie Bookstore Day

  

  Although a year can seem like a long sentence, holidays are the punctuation marks that help us make sense of and organize it. Ordinary time, such as time at... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Movie v. Book

  

  The debate is about as old as celluloid itself; which is better, the book or the movie? The response obviously depends on personal taste, and I suspect that man... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Watching Research

  

  Now that Holy Horror’s been announced, I’m at work on my next book based on horror movies. Although some people might question the aesthetic of the horror genre... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Kakistocracy

  

  While in seminary I had the interesting job of teaching a visually impaired student Greek. This wasn’t an arbitrary choice on the part of my professors since, a... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Candles Vs Demons

  

  Among scientists who write Carl Sagan has always struck me as one of the more open minded. Dedicated to the scientific method, he nonetheless admits that there... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Heavenly Questions

  

  A lot can happen when you’re in a coma. Or nothing at all. I haven’t read Kevin and Alex Malarkey’s account of the latter’s trip to Heaven during a coma, and... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY