Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4169 )

• 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

• Techno-Paradise

  

  I’m building a robot priest. I’m not sure what he does. He has to be a man, though, since we all know that if God existed he’d have been a male. These thoughts... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Beg to Differ

  

  “What do you burn apart from witches?” “More witches!” Earning a doctorate is kind of like learning how to get lost. It certainly doesn’t make you either cool o... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• With Your Measure

  

  “With what measure ye mete,” someone once said, “it shall be measured to you again.” I certainly hope that’s true, but empirical verification seems to be... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Narrative Ark

  

  Complete with an artificial giraffe perched on its prow—or aft, I can never tell the difference—a modern-day Noah’s ark is about to set sail. Or set float. Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Devil, You Know

  

  I’m the first to admit that I’m behind the times. Too much of my free time is spent reading weird news or going to used book sales to keep abreast of what’s... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Lily White

  

  The funny thing about being “white” (I’m more of an anemic pink myself) is that my race seems to think all the gods share our ethnic traits. I’ve seen Thor, so ... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Do the Twist

  

  A used book sale is like a box of chocolates, if I may abscond with a simile that fits many scenarios. After all, you are there to buy books that others have... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Comic Culture

  

  Perhaps the most obvious deviancy in my otherwise conservative childhood was MAD Magazine. I honestly suspect my parents didn’t know that it wasn’t just... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Game of Thrones

  

  I risk my already flagging street cred by admitting this, but I don’t watch Game of Thrones. In fact, I started to read the first book a couple years back and... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Used Knowledge

  

  One of the unadulterated pleasures of life—or maybe adulterated is the better adjective—is the used book sale. The year I missed the Hunterdon County Friends... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Come Sail Oy Vey

  

  Nothing says unorthodox like a headline that reads “Smart Jews? Thank the Extraterrestrials.” Breaking Israel News ran the story recently and, being... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Same Old Story

  

  Once upon a time fairy tales were considered appropriate only for children. Unlike myths, fairy tales are frequently oral (yes, there are oral myths but this... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Perceiving Religion

  

  “Sticks and stones,” they used to tell me, “may break my bones, but words will never harm me.” We teach our children lies like that. Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• What’s the Message?

  

  I said I’d come back to Bono. A story in the New Boston Post heralds a new documentary on Bono and Eugene Peterson. Both are famous in their own way, but no... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fast One Flood

  

  I’m not sure what to believe anymore. This crisis of faith revolves not around religion, but around media. Pundits have been saying for some time that the... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gods and Rods

  

  The human mind is an unsolved mystery. Oh, we know a lot about the brain, and advances in neuroscience have been startlingly swift. The mind, which is not the... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Story of God

  

  Synchronicities come at kinds of synchronaddresses. After I had written a recent post on human sacrifice, I watched the first episode of Morgan Freeman’s The... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• God’s Rain

  

  Photo credit: Micahmedia, Wikimedia CommonsWashington Postan articleThose of us who indulge in creative writing know that poetry is perhaps the only place... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY