Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4522 )

• Brains and Selves

  

  The Tell-Tale Brain is an ambitious, yet humble attempt to find the self. V. S. Ramachandran is a neuroscientist with considerable psychology experience who is... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Being Sheepish

  

  Being among the animals at the fair, you begin to notice things that are foreign to those of us with exposure only to the house-pet variety of fellow creatures. Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Charity

  

  On occasion someone will comment, either here or on my other popular writings, that I lack the objectivity of a journalist. This should be no surprise, really,... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• All’s Fair

  

  The county fair is an institution that tastes like a real slice of Americana. My family’s been involved with our 4-H Fair for several years now. Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Go Down, Moses

  

  For a time, I tried to write down family tradition. My family was somewhat unusual in that regard. Family saying came generally from my maternal... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shooting Stars

  

  One of the professions I used to consider as a child, before I had any real concept of the way the world works, was a scientist. Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• My Beloved Monsters

  

  Once upon a time I felt radical in claiming that monsters and religion shared a pedigree. Having grown up fascinated by Universal, as well as much cheaper and... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Biblically Business

  

  Bibles are business. I recently read that the first book of which Oxford University Press sold a million copies was the Scofield Bible. Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Credo

  

  One of my seminary professors, who shall remain nameless, averred in class that Christianity in the first centuries was popular because it was exclusive. Like... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Excavating Religion

  

  Jamestown, Virginia has the distinction of being the first British American colony to have survived. I’ve only been to Jamestown once, and that was about two... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Time and Again

  

  One score and ten years ago, I graduated from college. I also enrolled in seminary and worked in a United Methodist summer camp. I bought my own car and worked... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Last Chance to Sea

  

  I wasn’t brave enough to don swimming trunks in front of academic colleagues and climb into the Dead Sea. Instead, I dipped a finger in an touched it to my... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Witnessing Angels

  

  Back in my undergraduate days, I wanted to learn more about angels. Surprisingly, there were no courses offered on the subject, even at evangelical Grove City... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Writer’s Life

  

  Sometimes, an experienced editor once told me, the author’s life is just as important as the book she’s written. I can’t pretend to know much about Shirley... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• By the Time I Get to Phoenix

  

  I remember when flying involved going to a travel agent, explaining where and when you wanted to go, and how much you could afford. Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gsp

  

  According to New Jersey Transit, rates for services will go up by 9 percent in October. I may still be on this bus by then. It was like many evening... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Martian Ethics

  

  If you need a boot of optimism, look to Mars. Or, more specifically, read Andy Weir’s The Martian. Not that it’s the greatest literature ever produced, but it i... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sickness Unto Death

  

  It’s like Nightmare on Elm Street, as my daughter suggested: if my laptop falls asleep, it dies. Actually, that only happens if it turns off. Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• For the Birds

  

  Identifying birds has never been my strongest skill, although I spend hours pouring over animal indentification books.  Ever since I was a child, I’ve wanted... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Call It Civilization

  

  Being in nature inspires a Psalm-like awe. Civilized to the point of spending virtually all my time indoors, spending all day in the lake or among the trees,... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY