Steveawiggins

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• Monster Gods

  

  “I would go to Catholic Church and the saints made no sense.  But Frankenstein made sense, The Wolfman made sense, The Creature from the Black Lagoon made sense... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Locally Speaking

  

  One of the weird things about moving is that you don’t know many people in your new location.  Ah, but who am I kidding?  As an introvert I knew few people in m... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Chilly Ghosts

  

  The names of many Antarctic explorers are more familiar to me than Arctic ones, so John Franklin was a name unknown to me. A nineteenth-century British explorer... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• No Words

  

  I read something scary recently.  And no, it was not a horror story.  I work in publishing and we have to keep abreast of developments, so I’ve had a glimpse... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• When Autumn Starts

  

  Some books catch my attention and I’m not sure why. Knowing myself, the title When Autumn Leaves, invoking my favorite time of year with its intriguing syntax,... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shatner’s Space

  

  We constantly underestimate the power of fiction.  It’s difficult to break into getting fiction published.  It wasn’t always that way. Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Free to Listen

  

  It was a delightful conversation, as always.  Robin and Debra from The Incarcerated Christian podcast always amaze me with both their program and their... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Love for the Sky

  

  People long for the sky.  We look at birds with envy and we have historically treated the weather, or the sky itself as divine.  To get oneself into the air is... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Halloween Mothers

  

  There’s an irony in seeing Samhain returning back to Ireland as Halloween. One movie that ties its Celtic roots in particularly well with the denizens of the... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Green Pagan

  

  The folk tradition doesn’t encompass folk horror only. I’ve been working on The Wicker Man, one of the initial folk horror classics, long enough that I sometime... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bad Dog!

  

  A few years back, it was, when I saw my first video of a robo-dog.  I don’t mean the cute ones that you might fool yourself into thinking, on an off day, might... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Flavor of Childhood

  

  Giant, telepathic crabs whose molecular structure make them impervious to bullets, explosives, and fire, and that know how to use dynamite and who plan to take... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Former Education

  

  Like most people I don’t have time to sit around thinking much about college.  Once in a while you’re forced into it, however.  This time it was by an NPR... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Stinging Days

  

  It doesn’t take much to encourage wasps. Even after a few unseasonably cold weeks in autumn, one warm day will bring them back, poking along the siding looking... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Reading Algorithm

  

  I appreciate help.  I really do.  It’s easy to feel overwhelmed in this world and others offering to help out are welcome.  But you do have to wonder about... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Kings and Gods

  

  Kong has never been my favorite monster.  Perhaps because it is more of a sad story than a scary one, and in movies of gigantic animals, there always seem to... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• No Donations

  

  They’re after my blood.  In fact, they repeatedly call on my work phone asking for it.  But when I go in they won’t take it.  There are blood shortages, I know.... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Forbidden Things

  

  I owe Douglas Cowan a debt of gratitude. Spending evenings at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting curled up with... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Past Knowing

  

  It’s like watching a fall in a movie in slow motion.  You know you can’t really stop it, as much as you’d like to.  We see the collective world pieces moving... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Eclecticism

  

  Eclectic.  An eclectic approach is experiential.  I don’t mean to be obscure here, but I was once an academic.  Let me try to spell this out a little more... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY