Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4147 )

• Holiday Weekend

  

  John Seward Johnson II is a sculptor whose work is instantly recognizable by a number of people. Realistic, life-size bronze castings of people doing everyday... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Literate Madmen

  

  My experience of paternal parents growing up never led me to think Father’s Day was a holiday particularly worth celebrating. (Don’t panic—today’s not Father’s... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mythisotry

  

  Positivism takes no captives. I’m not talking about the philosophical system—not necessarily—but about the phenomenon of assuming absolutes are available for... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Religious Melancholy

  

  I’d never come across the term “religious melancholics” before, but somehow it seemed to suit me. Perhaps that goes without saying as I’m reading Damned... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Werewolf in Summer

  

  It must be incredibly difficult to write a truly scary song. I don’t mean the kind of scare that most heavy metal can innately deliver, but I mean the kind of... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sundog

  

  Spring has been taking its time to arrive here in the northeast. Just when things seem to have set on a course of identifiable progress, the temperature drops... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Being Humanity

  

  What do you want to be when you grow up? The question kept recurring as I read The Kindness of Strangers. The name Kate Adie may be more familiar to readers fro... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Forgive Us Our Tabs

  

  Forgiveness is somewhat of a specialization among the crowd courted by the new GOP. Although it is forgiveness that goes only one way, at least it’s a start. Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Freezes Over

  

  A good metaphor gone bad can do a lot of damage. Like a loose cannon. Hell is a bad neighborhood for metaphors. Taken literally Hell can be hell. So it is that... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Map to Eternity

  

  One of the most remarkable things about Christianity is its fascination with the end of the world. Far from being the obsession of nineteenth-century... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Noah Way

  

  As a fleet of Noah’s Arks near completion, some critics would like to stop these Titanics from their mythical crossing. The Ark Encounter, despite... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Evolving Technology

  

  Speaking of prediction, after yesterday’s post my wife sent me a BBC story entitled “The Machine Stops: Did EM Forester predict the internet age?”. Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Prophets Paid

  

  Photo credit: Cephas, Wikimedia CommonsPrognostication used to be the remit of oversized rodents and individuals we’d now classify as mad. And news used to be... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Busyness as Usual

  

  “Time,” Morpheus said, “is always against us.” Such is life in the Matrix. Wake before daylight. Climb on a bus. Stare at a screen for a solid eight hours. Clim... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Found World

  

  Challenges will make you do funny things. One enjoyable dare has been Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Reading Challenge. With a modest twelve books in twelve months goal,... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Big Boxification

  

  When was the last time I purchased an actual book at Barnes and Noble? In a vain hope that they might have something intellectual and edgy, I stop in once in a... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Omen, O Man!

  

  Of the unholy trinity of late-60s to mid-70s horror movies Rosemary’s Baby (1968), The Exorcist (1973) and The Omen (1976), the last always seemed the least... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Vitruvian Savior

  

  If memory serves, I was still in seminary when “Piss Christ” was first unveiled. As photographic art, I can’t say when the shutter snapped, but I seem to... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• High Castle Blade Runner

  

  Growing up evangelical, one of the popular topics of conversation was crypto-christians. (My spellcheck insists that this is a lowercase expression. Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Devil’s Workshop

  

  Some of us prefer taking our monsters neat. With Old Scratch, however, we have a slippery, protean beast. This is amply demonstrated in W. Scott Poole’s Satan i... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY