Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4648 )

• 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

• 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