Steveawiggins

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• Spoiler Alert

  

  I work in a cubicle. That’s just one word shy of the famed “six word novel” challenges. I’m wondering what qualifier I should add. To understand this dilemma yo... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Evil Masters

  

  Whoever Modern Mrs. Darcy is, she keeps me honest. This is my third year of doing her reading challenge, and in an effort not to go out and buy all the books I... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• No Whine

  

  Sneaking in a grocery run to Wegmans before church one Sunday awhile back, I was in line behind a distinguished looking gentleman. “I’m sorry,” the clerk told... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Nightmares with

  

  One of my greatest phobias is that people will think I’m arrogant. Those who know me realize that I’m highly self-critical, as befits a lapsed Fundamentalist.... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Great Communicators

  

  Perhaps you’ve encountered it too. You’re in a major city. You’re in a hurry. The person in front of you is plodding along, staring at the device in his or her... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Weather Psalm

  

  As the northeast coast digs out from yesterday’s nor’easter at least we can thank God that no business days were lost. At least none based on the status of New... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Teaching Peace

  

  Teachers, preferably unarmed, are some of my favorite people. While the travesty of a government muddles along in the District of Columbia I think back on my ow... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Exercising Exorcism

  

  About the last people, ironically, that you’ll find researching demons are religion scholars. That’s perhaps a slight exaggeration, but there’s an... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• One Isaiah

  

  Everyone wants to be remembered. While many don’t wish to be famous, we all hope that someone notices the noteworthy things we’ve done. By any measure Isaiah... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Morning Thoughts

  

  One of the persistent dangers of being a morning person is the fact that places aren’t open early when you have to be out and about. Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Taking My Marbles

  

  Cheaters, we were told as children, never prosper. It turns out that this chestnut never grew into a tree. Cheaters become Republic congressional leaders... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Jewish Annotated

  

  A project with which I have some small acquaintance is the second edition of the Jewish Annotated New Testament (some of you may be noticing an annotated theme... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Russian Along

  

  Living at Nashotah House—if you haven’t been, trust me—makes one curious about Rasputin. While on the faculty there, his name was used as a common slur. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Medical Missionary

  

  So it was this routine medical screening. The scary-looking machine had an open window that said “Laser aperture: do not stare at beam. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Down the Road

  

  First of all, thank you to my regular readers. I’ve been making daily posts on this blog since July 2009—nearly nine years of illustrated commentary. It seems,... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Panthers and Prophets

  

  Prophetic is a word I seldom use for movies. Prophetic, by the way, doesn’t mean predicting the future. Prophecy was about establishing rightness on the earth. Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Heavens Above

  

  When things get bad down here we start to turn our eyes to the heavens. A couple of news stories in the past few weeks have encouraged such star gazing. Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Who’s Hungry?

  

  I flatter myself to think that some people enjoy my daily musings, although they’re sometimes grim. Religion often is. One curious example of this is the... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Always Have with You

  

  The place wasn’t meant for a family of six. Properly speaking, it was a one-bedroom house, or hovel. The attic, from which we could see the sky through the roof... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Just As I Was

  

  It was kind of a game. A game to teach us about important people, living or dead. The fact that we were playing it in high school history class, taught by one o... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY