Steveawiggins

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• 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

• After Darkness

  

  Some historians, I suspect, despair of the volumes already written on all periods, ancient and modern. History, however, can cover a variety of segments of time... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Getting Medieval

  

  Who doesn’t have a devil of a time keeping up with technology? My day is divided in almost Manichaean terms between having internet access and not. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Lent Presidents

  

  Surely it’s appropriate that President’s Day falls in Lent this year. We as a nation, if we are wise, will repent of the horror we’ve elected upon ourselves. Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• On the Nature of Publishers

  

  An occupational hazard of the editor is paying obsessive attention to publishers. That stands to reason. Many academics are less concerned than some publishers... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• On Time

  

  Getting to the movie theater is not only costly, but increasingly difficult to schedule. This can be problematic for someone who likes to write about movies, bu... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2018 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY