Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4674 )

• 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

• Free Research

  

  I’ve lost track of how many times it’s happened, but it has been relatively few.  Someone I don’t know will approach me and ask me to post about something on... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tweets from Heaven

  

  What do the ultra-rich know about morals?  I read recently that now that Elon Musk has purchased Twitter for billions and billions of dollars, that he’s going t... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Consistency

  

  .  Back in Wisconsin I belonged to a group of Hebrew Bible professors who read a book and got together to critique it.  We came from different schools—Marquette... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Empty Chair

  

  I’m not a Roman Catholic. Nevertheless, I admire much about the tradition. Its perceived unchanged continuity with the past is a big draw. Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Heat Pump

  

  We’re preparing our home to welcome a new resident.  It’s not human.  Those of you who are home owners know how you move from crisis to crisis, paying to... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fight for Mom

  

  The spring holidays come think and fast.  Depending on when you start spring we’ve got Valentine’s Day followed a month later by St. Pat’s.  On it’s roving... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• For Sale for Free

  

  It’s one of the signs of spring.  Although it may be more appropriate for winter when we’re holed up inside for much of the time, the library book sale often... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Highest Education

  

  The average church-goer is often impressed with the idea of seminary.  The thought that someone could devote three years of their lives to theological minutiae... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Boone to Some

  

  Folk heroes sometimes put us in compromising positions.  We appreciate their importance for where we are and yet we recognize that where we are came at a... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shadows of Childhood

  

  Childhood, it seems to me, is where we define ourselves. In the days when life expectancy wasn’t terribly long and people generally lived only long enough to... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY