Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4522 )

• Scouting for Boys

  

  I guess losing a bid for a presidential nomination sanctions a guy to speak for God. Of course, that goes for just about any Republican these days. Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Real World Ethics

  Do yourself a favor. Spend five minutes watching this video:Although it has a whiff of the apocryphal about it, I choose to believe that Kai is really who he... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Secular Oaths

  

  “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States,” so begins the story. With President Obama’s second... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Poe

  

  On his birthday I began reading a biography of Edgar Allan Poe. The last biography of Poe I read, I’m embarrassed to admit, was in high school. To me Poe is lik... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• On a Wager and a Prayer

  

  I’ve been thinking about Job a lot lately. Not my job, but the biblical book. Way back when I was preparing my initial classnotes on Job, I remember a... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ad Lib

  

  Somewhere in the back of my mind I’ve had a notion to research and write a book on the history of “bad words.” Being raised Evangelical, I had a preternatural... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Invoking Imbolc

  

  As the year continues her eternal circle, we find ourselves once again at Imbolc, the cross-quarter day between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox. Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• On My Honor

  

  Some old fashioned institutions fear new learning. Although I was a Boy Scout for only a couple of years, I grew up in Cub Scouts and Webelos and had a pretty... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mercurial Monotheism

  

  A friend recently asked about Isaiah 45.7, “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Know Thyself

  

  Perhaps it is a perverted sign of the times, but sometimes I seek myself online. Not surprisingly, most of what I find there is stuff I’ve posted myself. Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Old-Tyme Religion

  

  Run, two, three, jump, slap, run, two, three, jump. I can’t believe that I’m Molly dancing on a January afternoon with total strangers and it’s just over... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Avenge This

  

  Recently rewatching The Avengers I noticed a subtext that had escaped me the first couple of times I saw it. When Loki explains to his victims why he is... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Moocher Man

  

  Influenza seems to be going around. Since I spend at least three hours a day on a crowded bus I get to observe all kinds of uncouth behavior. Not that I’m alway... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Stonefaced

  

  Imagine, if you will, life on the open sea. Back in the whaling days. Days before enlightenment really took hold. Transpose that thought onto railroads. In a da... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rational Religion

  

  God, Reason and Religion, the title of Steven M. Cahn’s book, fit uneasily together. Or so it would seem. Cahn, a philosophy professor, collected together in... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Neander Valley

  

  Because we can—but should we? This is technological ethics in a nutshell. While we are still debating what it means to be human and the majority of people in th... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Twist and Shout

  

  True crime is not really my thing. I find regular life disturbing on a frequent basis, and reading about how someone willfully harmed another only seems to... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• King’s Highway

  

  Sometimes I forget the beauty of the Bible. With its constant current of misuse in our society, it is sometimes easy to forget that, like an abused child, the... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Money Poppins

  

  Easy answers seldom hold up. Generalizing is a way of dealing with the vast amounts of data people continually process. Now that many of us in the “developed”... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Angels of Ages

  

  February 12, 1809. Both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born. Some days can be momentous that way. Although I’d known about this coincidental birth for... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY