Steveawiggins

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• Book Or Movie?

  

  The funny thing about people, or at least one of the funny things, is that when individuals get together we notice different things. It can happen at in-person... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Podcast Live

  

  Have you ever had one of those weeks where you forgot what day it was?  (Come on, now, it’s a pandemic—you can admit it!)  I spent yesterday unaware that it... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More Ethnic Monsters

  

  There seems to be a real interest, this haunting season, for cultures to claim their monsters.  I recently wrote about a story on the Jewish background to... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Time Keeps on

  

  Do you want to feel old?  Consider this BBC headline: “TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK.” If you’re like me you first heard of TikTo... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• B Film

  

  October brings horror films to mind.  As soon as the calendar clicks over, discussions of favorite scary movies begins.  As I’ve mentioned many times before,... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sodom

  

  Look!  Up in the sky!  It’s a bird!  It’s a plane!  It’s an asteroid coming to wipe out a city!  One of the cottage industries outside biblical studies is the... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Jewish and Christian Frankenstein

  

  Among my many potential book projects already started (I tend to work on several at any given time) is one on Frankenstein. I’ve read several studies of Mary... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Next Trick

  

  Book contracts make me happy.  For my next trick, I’ll be writing a book on The Wicker Man for the Devil’s Advocate series. This will be a short book, and... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Strange Happenings

  

  It all began with a lazy Saturday, back in those days of trying to make a living as an adjunct professor. People often ask why such folks don’t do more... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Druid Redux

  

  I know I’ve talked about this book before. I had cause to learn about the Druids again, and Peter Berresford Ellis’ book was handy. Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Clash of the Titles

  

  Well, it seems I may be stuck in publishing for a while.  At least it’s a place to learn.  The inside story, it turns out, would be very helpful for authors to... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Banning Banning

  

  Banned Book Week gets me all aflutter. There have been years at I’m so busy that it slips by before I notice it, but each year I try to incorporate it somehow... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Discount Nightmares

  

  Now that we’re past the equinox it’s officially okay to obsess with monsters, right?  (Any excuse will do.)  Nightmares with the Bible was officially a... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Price of Monotheism

  

  Before Christianity (I’m not convinced by Marija Gimbutas’ matriarchy hypothesis, as much as I like it) many cultures recognized mother goddesses. Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Festive Books

  

  The Book and Puppet Company, a small independent bookstore in Easton, Pennsylvania is unique.  Other bookstores may have puppet shows and other forms of theater. Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mabon

  

  Given the immense popularity of Halloween, and the attention lavished on the solstices, it’s a little odd that Mabon is so infrequently observed. Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Psychology of Religion

  

  It’s so human.  Mistaking form for substance, I mean.  A recent piece in Wired that my wife pointed out to me is titled “Psychologists Are Learning What Religio... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Seedy Delivery

  

  Call it a weird indulgence, for that it surely is.  I’ve been slowly re-collecting childhood books—really what we call “tween books” these days, but there were... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Before Current Parameters

  

  I recently had cause, for a work project, to survey which Episcopal seminaries are still around.  You see, I began my teaching career at Nashotah House. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Reading Memory

  

  I recently wrote about writing too much (as if such a thing were possible).  After posting that I thought of how much the same can be said of reading. Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY