Steveawiggins

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• 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

• Growing Green

  

  It was bound to happen sooner or later. I married into a family of singers, and when we gather at a cabin in the woods, singing breaks out. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Reign of Rain

  

  I’m on vacation for a week. My job is such that taking vacation is becoming a rare commodity, what with precious few allotted days and move-in, move-out... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• When You’re Alone

  

  The story is told of how evangelist George Whitefield, on one of his several Atlantic crossings, traded some commodity for a deck of playing cards that he... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ancient Tech

  

  I feel like scraping Roman numerals on the wall of my cave with a sharp rock. One for each day I have to spend without my laptop. I’ve been working on this blog... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Death, Technically

  

  Those of you who punish yourselves by reading my posts regularly may wonder at how different my last couple of posts have been. Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Musical Magic

  

  In-flight magazines aren’t a place I turn for inspiration. Having been raised in poverty, I’ve never found the jet-set interests to be at all engaging. I can’t... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Skewed Perspective

  

  Mysterium tremendum is the term often applied to numinous experiences. The sense of being in the presence of something both terrifying and compelling. Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY