Steveawiggins

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• Religion Is Fundamental

  

  One of the books on my shelf growing up was a cheap paperback entitled How to Be a Christian without Being Religious. The idea appealed since having to do all... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pagan Paean

  

  The old gods still live. In literature. The modern world with its open spirituality has continued the process of rediscovering ancient deities. Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Flying Sorcery

  

  In a post on the Huffington Post recently Michael Zimmerman, founder of the Clergy Letter Project, wrote about the strange antipathy of Ken Ham to the search fo... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Romney Wordsworth

  

  The Twilight Zone, one of my favorite fallbacks when I’m alone, doesn’t shy away from religion. I remember watching some of these moody tales in my childhood,... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sign of Jonas

  

  A century ago today, the world erupted in war. Those who engaged in World War One are pretty much all gone now, but the war to end all wars has left its scars... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• As a Child

  

  At a certain age, when alumni magazines arrive (and they will), one starts first by opening to the necrology. Who didn’t make it as far as me, after all? Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hydrofracking

  

  Genies can’t be put back into bottles, I’m told. They are one of the many things that once done cannot be undone. I had that sense throughout my reading of... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cowboys and Demons

  

  Cowboys Aliens finally came down into my price range. For movies I’d have to view alone, I generally wait until they appear for free on some online movie... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Good, Bad, and Human

  

  Mike Madrid may know more about women in comics than anyone else alive. I’ve commented about his Supergirls and Divas, Dames and Daredevils, and he’s now... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• New Gods

  

  The new gods are the old gods, apparently. Increasingly I feel myself to be in the old category, but I do glance at Wired once in a while in a vain attempt to... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fear of the Known

  

  Social media has become the new reality. Not that rumor ever had much trouble before the internet, but now our cultural memes explode so fast that we have to... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Candle, Book, and Bell

  

  Having married into a family descended from the surviving relatives of women executed as witches at Salem, I have long been saddened and fascinated by the story... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• On Vocation

  

  “There ain’t no use in complaining,” Bryan Adams once wrote, “when you got a job to do.” If I may be pardoned from removing rock and roll from its love song... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Once and Future Ape

  

  The original pentalogy of the Planet of the Apes franchise began a slow decline with Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Producing a movie per year from 1970 to... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dead See Scrolls

  

  Despite her ability to overlook my obvious deficiencies, my wife has good eyesight. Last week she spotted an article carried by the Associated Press entitled... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Unity in Diversity

  

  In the Simpsons episode “Bart’s Girlfriend,” Jessica Lovejoy steals all the church’s money from the collection plate, leading Mrs. Lovejoy to call out, “Everyon... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Lobby Hobby

  

  I can recall a time when hobbies seemed less than threatening. Indeed, the idea was to relax, not to lobby. My hobbies—collecting just about anything you could... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pierogdolia

  

  One of the memorable scenes from Men in Black is when the Arquillian takes Gentle Rosenburg to a restaurant for pierogi. One need not be an alien, or even... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Secular Sacred

  

  On a family walk in the woods, along came a spider. Actually, the spider had already been there quite a while, given the amount of work that its web represented. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Forbidden Zones

  

  I grew up with talking apes. Well, I was actually about six when Planet of the Apes was released, but it quickly became one of my favorite movies. Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY