Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4648 )

• The Past of Education

  

  Meanwhile on earth, I have been checking up on my colleagues at General Seminary. While I’m limited in what I’m allowed to say, an article last week on Inside... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rosetta’s Stone

  

  Among the earliest forms of writing, Egyptian hieroglyphs were known long before they were deciphered. Despite the famed insanity of Napoleon, his visit to Egyp... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Holistic Universe

  

  Things have been so busy that a satellite landed on a comet and I didn’t even know. I have always wondered about the universe. Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Someplace Beyond Longing

  

  November is a month pregnant with significance. It is the month of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month; when I tried it a few years back I finished a novel... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Revisiting Jericho

  

  I don’t get out from the office much. As those who commute to New York City will readily tell you, there is a constant anxiety about getting to and from the cit... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Christian Computing

  

  Science and religion are often portrayed as fighting like dogs and cats. Both claim superiority and a comprehensive worldview that should make sense of... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Trial and Error

  

  I’m not a fan of true crime. It seems that daily life has enough drama for me without reading about the truly dark aspects of human behavior. Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Biblically Literate Ichabod Crane

  

  I’m trying to pace my viewing of Sleepy Hollow, but autumn is never long enough for me. In many ways the FOX series exemplifies the current love-hate... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Parable of Jericho

  

  It had been there my entire life. I hadn’t really noticed it, but it was a powerful symbol—not in the way that it was intended to be. Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Darwin Down the Road

  

  The accidents of birth are the stuff of evolution. When I first heard of Matthew Chapman, direct descendent of Charles Darwin, over a decade ago, I was... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Earthbound

  

  Major news outlets have been raving over Interstellar, the new Christopher Nolan film. I’ve not seen it yet, and it hasn’t had the same kind of hype that Noah... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Literary Hunter-Gatherers

  

  Perhaps the clearest place my hunter-gatherer roots show is in my tendency to collect. In principle, in Manhattan, I leave coins on the pavement for those less... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Windmills of My Mind

  

  Stonehenge may be the best known stone circle in the world, but it is by no means the only one. Not too many miles from its more famous cousin lies Avebury, a... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Let It Be

  

  Why do people pray to Mary? The question is a complex one and answers range from a desire to find some feminine compassion in an angry masculine god to the... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Guy Fawkes

  

  “Remember, remember the fifth of November,” so begins the poem that haunts my every autumn with V for Vendetta. As a colonial, I never really peered too deeply... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Horrorshow

  

  Halloween may be over, and more’s the pity. Still, Halloween is simply the entry point to longer nights and opportunities to revisit what scares us in the dark. Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Medusa on the Rocks

  

  Shipwrecks possess a compelling resonance that is difficult to explain. I have seldom been on boats, but from my youngest days I’ve been drawn to the coast. Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Allhallowtide

  

  is a triduum. No, I’m not writing in tongues. Ecclesiastical language can often be foreign to the secular world, and the fact that it’s All Souls’ Day for some... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fear and Dissembling

  

  Last year, when The Conjuring was released, it quickly became one of the (if not the) top earning horror films of all time at the box office. Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Transformations

  

  Halloween, when you think about it, is an odd holiday. I know many who claim it as their favorite although you get no presents and not even a day off work. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY