Steveawiggins

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• Holy Castle

  

  Reading about Philip K. Dick prompted me to read one of his novels. But which one? Some Amazon pick-up lockers on the way to work are painted with a mural of Th... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Grasping for Meaning

  

  How often we’re told—and writers on biblical topics are especially guilty of this—the meaning of a story. Despite what materialists say, we are meaning-seeking... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Devil Made Me

  

  Witch-hunts, I suspect, will become all the rage again if a certain presidential candidate is elected. The fear of witches is not easily explained in a world... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Nature’s Voice

  

  Civilization isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, it’s got its moments—modern medicine, indoor plumbing, Honey Boo Boo—but often it’s artificial. Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not for Prophet

  

  Delicate isn’t a word we’ve been taught to associate with Islam. I remember a priest speaking to me oh-so-earnestly about how Islam by nature wanted to take ove... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Survey Said…

  

  There may come a time, perhaps “when the trumpet of the Lord shall sound,” that junk mail will be no more, a mere historical curiosity. For now, in these days o... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dairy King

  

  In the way that only social pundits can generate stereotypes, people born between 1979 and 1994 are called “the entitlement generation. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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