Steveawiggins

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• Capital Idea?

  

  One of the most difficult parables in the New Testament is the one where Jesus praises the fraudster (in Luke 16).  In case you’re a little rusty it goes like... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Companies

  

  Perhaps you’ve seen them too.  Big companies that express what they do purely in platitudes that apparently impress business types. Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pure Fear

  

  At work we have the opportunity to say a little about ourselves on a shared document for our teams.  This is a fairly new thing, so people I’ve worked with for... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Namely Coincidences

  

  One of my very first posts on this blog was about how I am not the Steve Wiggins who is a gospel singer. There I mused on the coincidence that we share fore... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Forgotten Goddess

  

  It’d’ve been nice if someone had told me.  If you’re not a professor, though, you’ve lost your importance.  I’ve only written a book on the subject, after all. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• At Home Abroad

  

  You would’ve thought it was obsolete.  You see, we have the power to make it end, although the price is very high.  As a Cold War kid, I thought that the next... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Worth Reaching For

  

  At a recent meeting with a community-building group, the question was raised: what causes can we focus on without triggering the extreme divisiveness that... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shaping Water

  

  When I write fiction the genre’s difficult to define.  The other thing is I tend to be behind when it comes to pop culture.  It can take me years to find the... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Haunting History

  

  It’s difficult to do without feeling guilty, even if you personally had nothing to do with it. It does seem that “Whites” have to take the initiative to... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• False Focus

  

  I seldom use my iPhone.  I admit that I like having a camera with me most of the time and I don’t look like a tourist.  I don’t text and when I feel like... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• On Campus

  

  It’s still the pandemic and I don’t get out much.  It seems prudent and only a little paranoid.  I had the opportunity to meet someone from Lehigh University... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Annotating Irving

  

  Really concentrating on a short story is sometimes difficult to do. I don’t have a degree in literature (I took a few courses, but my specialization was... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Blood Money

  

  The overdose crisis is very real and very sad.  Even so I couldn’t help being stopped and shocked by how economics was brought into it in a recent New York Time... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Evening Out

  

  It feels like magic.  The morning after staying up late for something special has a transcendent quality to it.  You can almost touch the veil.  Now, for me it’... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Foreign Christianity

  

  I’ve been reading about missionaries in Southeast Asia.  One of the things that has become clear to me is that as Christians moved into different cultures they... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Status Check

  

  It took many months, but one of my few Twitter followers was removed not for trying to take the nation by force, but because he’d died.  If I learn to tweet fro... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Falling Usher

  

  Roger Corman is a name well known to film buffs.  The producer of many low-budget, obviously cheaply filmed movies shot over a matter of days, his early career... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Television Fed

  

  There have been a number of television shows—The Simpsons primary among them—that instead of castigating the media-raised generation, celebrate it. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Old Churches

  

  I doubled its authenticity, but it was revered in a way similar to the Shroud of Turin. The old guide, a priest if I recall, showed us an actual lantern hung fo... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Horror Deprivation

  

  Is there such a thing as horror deprivation?  Life has been so busy that I haven’t been able to carve out the time to watch any horror movies for several weeks... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY