Steveawiggins

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• Outside In

  

  Work duties necessitate my attendance at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting, starting Friday, in Denver. Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dangers of Bookmarks

  

  So you’re a busy person and you don’t always have time to act on something immediately.  Or you have to wait until the next billing cycle to afford something. Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Complications

  

  That string of ten digits becomes your personal identity.  It’s conveyed by a pocket-sized device that’s so expensive you have to pay for it in installments. ... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Deep Life

  

  I have a list, you know. It grows frequently and changes with my moods. It’s a list of movies I want to watch. While I never trained as a movie critic, there... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Finishing the Set

  

  I hope I didn’t leave you hanging too long. Autumn is always such a good time for mood reading that I had a couple of books I wanted to be sure to cram in befor... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eclipsed

  

  Shooting the moon.  It’s such a simple thing.  Or it should be.  I don’t go out of my way to see lunar eclipses, but I had a front row seat to yesterday’s [I... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Who Bites?

  

  Although I use them, I find genres too constraining. When Parasite first came out in 2019 many people said it was a horror film. Others called it a thriller. A... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Life in the Woods

  

  Early influences are often the strongest.  “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.”  Thumper was the dispenser of this particular wisdom,... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cone of Silence

  

  I still get asked occasionally.  Actually, I was never asked when I was employed as a professor.  Peer review is essential to the academic process. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Jason’s Javelin

  

  This past weekend was my third this year spent recovering from vaccinations. The shingles jabs were worse, but this time it was a double-duty flu shot and... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• What Lurks

  

  One question that I get asked by those who don’t understand is “Why horror?” The asker is generally someone that knows I’ve been “religious” all my life, or... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Holy Nightmares

  

  The thing about ratings, as John Green astutely notes in The Anthropocene Reviewed, is that they are in many ways arbitrary. From the very few reviews of my... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Grave Robbers

  

  My personal reconstruction of the Dark Shadows universe was made by connecting the books by Marilyn Ross that I could find with the episodes of the television... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Over

  

  It’s not over, you know.  Halloween, I mean.  We may have made it through the actual night of trick-or-treating with all of its build-up, but like many... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• This Halloween

  

  This year I’ve been making a conscious effort to appreciate autumn.  It’s admittedly difficult when you’re forced to sit in an office, even a home office, for... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Seasonal Viewing

  

  Any movie that begins with an excommunication ought to be good. Especially with its list of stars you’d think To the Devil a Daughter might’ve turned out better. Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hallowed Tradition

  

  The more I learn about the movie industry the more complex I realize it is. Take Trick ‘r Treat, for example. It was released to some film festivals—and backed... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Data Protection

  

  I learned to type on an actual typewriter.  For many—likely the majority—of those my age or older, that was the case.  Schools in the seventies, perhaps... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Panel

  

  More than one person pointed it out to me, so I guess I must be getting a (small) reputation.  During one of my campus editorial visits I stopped into the cente... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Small Big World

  

  Serendipity may have been over-used in the eighties, but the idea of finding something by chance that turns out to be really good is real enough. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY