Steveawiggins

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• Live Long and Prosper

  

  He lived long and prospered. Perhaps it’s a generational thing, but the icons of my youth have been dying. I have to confess to having sat far too many hours... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Scientific Belief

  

  The human brain is a marvelous thing. Neuroscientists find all kinds of surprises as they probe the gray matter in our heads. One of those findings is that we... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Night at Culture

  

  One of the undisputed benefits of living in the greater New York City metropolitan area is the potential for culture. I know that culture exists everywhere,... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Our Gods, Ourselves

  

  The near-death experience, made popular by Raymond Moody in the 1970s, has hit the cultural mainstream with movies like Heaven Is Real. Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Lazarus, Come Forth

  

  The red-cast face staring down from the giant LCD billboard this side of the Lincoln Tunnel has my attention. Having become an unwitting fan of horror movies,... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2015 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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