Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4577 )

• TechnoFrazzle

  

  Hebrew can be an obstinate language. And computer software companies can be immature. In a biblically inspired pulling out of the hair and rending of mine cloak... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Nc-17

  

  Holy Shit (in the philosophical mention sense, not the use sense), by Melissa Mohr, is a book I had intended to write. I’m glad Dr. Mohr beat me to it,... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Retire Me This…

  

  We’re all getting older.  My daily, grudging glimpse in the mirror reminds me that my beard wasn’t always gray, and there was a time *gasp* when no beard grew a... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Who Loves You?

  

  Wonder is too easily lost in a reductionistic world. Even when we get to the level of quantum mechanics we’re told, “it’s just physics.” How depressing. Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Weather Or Not

  

  The internet’s nothing if not self-referential. A post by Fred Clark over on Patheos, pointed out to me by my brother-in-law, has received 235 comments (at the... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Girl Named Cthulhu

  

  It was only a 25-word blurb in last week’s Time magazine. A Canadian couple decided to let the internet community name their daughter. As of the time of... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tweeting Treason

  

  Partisan politics can be very depressing. Religion seldom helps. Good ol’ boys hepped up on Jesus and lynchings creep me out a bit, especially when they’ve got... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Material Goods

  

  Few ideas are as insidious as the reductionistic materialism touted by some of the New Atheists. Atheism and materialism need not walk down the same garden path... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Stealing God Blind

  

  Photo credit: Raul 654, Wiki CommonsA friend who also works in the book trade recently revealed that the section in one of the few remaining brick-and-mortar... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sidekick

  

  I have moved from the territory of Sharon to that of Laura. New York City is a conglomeration of smaller neighborhoods, and even Midtown Manhattan hosts hundred... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• In Saecula Saeculorum

  

  “The Hebrew Bible is a misreading waiting to happen.” Jacques Berlinerblau’s The Secular Bible is a book containing much wisdom. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Devil Made

  

  Some things you just don’t mess with. Just in case. For a variety of reasons, not least of which is lack of biblical support, many Christians no longer believe... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eleventh Hour

  

  Religion, as many a charlatan knows, makes a very good investment. History has demonstrated time and again that the confident huckster can easily siphon the... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Flash Freeze

  

  One industry has, in this era of leisure, proven itself powerfully recession-proof. Entertainment, conceived broadly enough to include the sellers of strong... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Shipwrecked

  

  Childhood dies in pieces. There is nothing a young boy desires more than a father to show him how to negotiate life. As Mick Jagger eloquently declared, however... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Holy Ghost

  

  On a family trip to Cape May, New Jersey, some years back, a ghost tour caught my eye. My daughter was old enough not to be unduly scared, and appropriately... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dagon Cthulhu

  

  Cthulhu has taken over the world, thanks to the internet. I wonder what H. P. Lovecraft thinks as he lies dead, but dreaming under the loam of Providence. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Blessed Art Thou?

  

  “Con man” derives from the disparaging use of the term “confidence man,” as applied to those whose promised deliverables never appear, if they ever existed at... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shadowy Futures

  

  A thoughtful, if prescient commentary by Andy Crouch in this week’s Time magazine takes us into the uncanny valley. Despite the boastful protestations of the... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bridge Over Troubled Waters

  

  “Let not many of you,” wrote the wise James, in a widely ignored admonition, “become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.” The same coul... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY