Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4650 )

• Paraleipomenon

  

  I suspect, like most people, I missed quite a few classics in school. This was the ’70’s when new and experimental were still the rage. One of the must-reads I... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Industrial Revolution

  

  Everything’s industry. It has haunted me for some years now that we’ve let our corporate greed run away with our imagination so that nothing but “industry”... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Human, Nature

  

  Someone recently told me that a city blocks a certain vibration that people draw from contact with the earth. I know that vibration often sets off “new age”... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Business Beating

  

  Politics is about power. Say what you will about the Bible, but at least they were clear about it in those days. Kings were alpha males, not public servants.... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• World of Color

  

  Albinism occurs across species. In human beings, suspicious and superstitious lot that we are, it’s sometimes an excuse for prejudice. I’ve confessed in the pas... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• All Things Newton

  

  Andover Newton Theological School is the oldest stand-alone graduate school of theology in the United States. Was, I should say. Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Stations, Everyone

  

  There has been a movement, of late, among some sci-fi authors, to envision a more optimistic future. I have always been a fan of dystopias, myself. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• :-d

  

  Technology runs amok. I confess to being born before earthlings landed on the moon. I remember a world where Purelle boogers simply did not exist. Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Lure of the Dark Side

  

  I have to confess that the easy self-publishing of ebooks is a real temptation sometimes. Perhaps it’s one of those inexplicable side-effects of earning a Ph.D. Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• New World Witches

  

  One of the most coveted phenomena in the publishing world is the bad review. Controversy sells a book like nothing else. It wasn’t because of the controversy,... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Commander in Heaven

  

  I pity the nation that doesn’t have divine founders. Origin myths help to orient our thoughts about where we belong in the order of things. Given enough time,... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Avoiding Ritual

  

  While on my current British kick—not really intentional, but sometimes life gives you limes—I thought I’d mention another piece sent to me by a friend. Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Latin Lessons

  

  The Romans are coming! The Romans are coming! No, wait. They were already here. Here, that is, if you’re European. And more specifically, a Londoner. Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Man’s Best Fiend

  

  While reading the Hull Daily Mail (don’t ask), I came across an article entitled “Rock legend Alice Cooper ask questions about the Beast of Barmston Drain. Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Moving Mountains

  

  Just 200 years ago, there was a “year without a summer.” Well, that’s an exaggeration, but the name has stuck and is familiar to those of us with an undue... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Virgil’s Vigil

  

  I can never keep Virgil and Beatrice straight. I blame Dante. Allegories can be so tiring. So, sitting under a tree in Princeton, enjoying a root beer float... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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