Steveawiggins

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• Four Gods’ Sake

  

  Statistically speaking, most people don’t like statistics. I’m one of those. Numbers can do funny things to a person’s perception of things, nevertheless, I... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Parallelism?

  

  An article in Mother Nature Network that a friend sent me suggests that “Parallel worlds exist and interact with our world, say physicists. Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ultimate Superlative

  

  “Push men too far and they fall off the cliff.  Push great men too far and they soar.”  The words are those of my novelist friend K. Marvin Bruce. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Incitatus Redux

  

  What more is there to say about God and politics? Far too much, I fear. In a Sunday Review in the New York Times, Frank Bruni lays out a catalogue of what, in... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Material to Ponder

  

  From my youngest days I remember wanting to be a scientist. This desire was tempered with a real fear of Hell and wish to please. In my career, it seems, the... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Biblical Script

  

  The popular perception of the Bible generally does not match the actual contents very well. Like most books, the Bible has its highlights: Creation, Flood, Davi... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Biblical Weather

  

  On President’s Day, my wife pointed out an article in the New Jersey Star-Ledger headlined, “‘Biblical’ snowstorms battering New England.” She asked,... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Life Everlasting

  

  Through the Wormhole is one of those series that keeps me coming back. I’m currently working my way through the second season because it is a show that I take i... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Public Knowledge

  

  Sometimes the media gets it wrong. If one were to believe in the tales of industry prognosticators, our libraries would be closing, we’d all own Kindles, MOOCs... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Love the Sinner

  

  Nashotah House, in the many years I taught there, was very saintocentric. Our daily lives revolved around Saints’ Days, many of whom I’d never heard. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Addam’s Evve

  

  Dystopias can be optimistic. I just finished reading Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam, and came away from it strangely at peace. The third of its eponymous trilogy,... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Under Who?

  

  Who is God anyway? The question occurred to me as I read about the current Superior Court decision in New Jersey that “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Jedi Night

  

  It all began with that trailer. You know, the teaser for the new Star Wars movie. I was among those many small-town boys crowding into theaters in 1977 to have... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• High and Dry

  

  Although I frequently, and unapologetically, express my opinions on this blog, I try not to reveal too much about myself. The books we read, however, are... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sporting Chance

  

  I didn’t watch the SuperBowl last weekend. In fact, I haven’t had television service for over two decades now. I don’t really miss it too much since I don’t hav... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• They Might Be

  

  Last week I mentioned that a letter-writing friend had sent me two articles from the 1868 Prescott Journal newspaper. Some time ago I did some research into... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Psalms of Lament

  

  Fate can be decidedly cruel sometimes.  Accidental discoveries can be the most painful of all.  As my regular readers know, I wrote a book on the Psalms... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Duck Overboard!

  

  I remember the moment precisely. I was in Santa Barbara, California on a campus visit for Routledge. I stopped into the university bookstore to see which of... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ancient History

  

  In the white heat of rhetoric, my word processor froze up. I don’t have much time for writing with my commuting schedule, so the full forty-five minutes lost... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Thor’s Return

  

  Once as I sat in the office of an Ivy League professor of Greek religion, I asked about the myths of the Classical gods. The professor (who knew that I had... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY