Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4576 )

• A Run-By Fruiting

  

  Photo credit: Eva Rinaldi, Wikimedia CommonReader’s DigestFor this past week I’ve been pondering how one man’s tragic death has jolted a nation into a reflectiv... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Clockwork Heavens

  

  In a museum in Athens sits a device chock-full of gears and cogs and dials. Indeed, it looks quite a bit like the movement of a pre-digital clock. Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Historic Crossing

  

  If Washington crossed the Delaware, I figured, so could I. Of course, I have a car and I was going from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, but history doesn’t always... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Diminishing Returns

  

  You know that phenomenon where in movies or on television spinning wheels reach a point where they suddenly shift to spin the opposite direction? Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Nazis with Bibles

  

  Some years back, when the Internet was young, I had just learned about email. Even today it seems incredible that only twenty years ago we still sent physical... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Men Without Hats

  

  Do you want to start an argument? Mention hijab in a Christian environment. Some tempers will likely flair. The idea that a patriarchal religion would tell wome... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Daydream Believer

  

  I have finally found a book that will sit next to my copy of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. In this disjointed age of angry Fundamentalists and even angrier... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Religion Fiction

  

  Children brought up in a religious environment, according to a recent BBC story, are more prone to believe in fictional characters. Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Just Passing Through

  

  Michael Persinger is a curious and rare scientist. Apart from occasionally making it onto Through the Wormhole episodes, he is also known for his somewhat... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Write the Truth

  

  Publication is a tricky business. Just ask my friend, K. Marvin Bruce. Marvin and I have known each other for years as he’s been trying to break into fiction... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• God Discount

  

  God is great, despite what Christopher Hitchens wrote, at least, that is, if you want to save 15% without having to talk to a gecko. Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sects for You

  

  Oxford University Press has a religion blog. (Well, who doesn’t these days?) Apart from being jealous about their numbers, I find some of the posts fascinating. Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Evolution’s Snapshots

  

  In America’s political climate any book about Darwin takes on a religious cast. As strange as it may seem, an odd equation exists between Darwin, evolution,... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Infernal Religions

  

  The first steampunk novel I read, although some would dispute the classification, was Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age. To be sure, I’d noticed other... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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