Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4568 )

• Politically Incorrect

  

  We’ve been dwelling so long in the materialist worldview that we’ve come to doubt evil. Oh, we still use the word, but we don’t really believe it manifests... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• What Have Faces To Do with Books?

  

  I don’t write much about it because I don’t understand it. Facebook, that is. I’ve had an account there for many years now and with the rapid changes they make... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Knowing Everything

  

  Of all the jobs I’ve held, being an editor is the only one where strangers send random emails trying to convince me of God’s reality. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Critical Snow

  

  No two snowflakes, I’ve always been told, are the same. Far be it from me to question the collective wisdom of our species, but I wonder how this fact is ever... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Plants Will Lead

  

  The world just keeps getting weirder. Although I very much appreciate—“believe in,” if you will—science, sometimes the technology aspect of STEM leaves me... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Land

  

  It’s always a pleasure to find an author from whom you want to read more. It was my wife who told me about Ernestine Hayes’ The Tao of Raven. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Keep at It

  

  Photo credit: ESA MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia CommonsPerhaps it’s an indication of just how... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Too Fast

  

  In the Easy Reader book Hooray for Henry (available on Amazon for $768.57; that’s $12.60 per page), our eponymous protagonist Henry can’t win any of the events... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• One Day Or Another

  

  Although normally a time for celebration, Mardi Gras, I’m told, was subdued this year. Today is Ash Wednesday but many of us feel like we’ve been living a year... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Call It Therapy

  

  For many years, about all I ever pursued, research-wise, was ancient Near Eastern studies. It’s still the reason people visit my Academia.edu page. Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Leadership

  

  After four years it finally feels safe again. We can celebrate Presidents’ Day, although now and forever with some trepidation. Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Love Or Saints?

  

  Photo by Jamie Street on UnsplashOne of the many oddities of life at Nashotah House was that we never celebrated St. Valentine. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Many Moons

  

  Scientists, often with their base matrix bound up with the local religion, are frequently interested in myth. And sometimes religion too. This is no surprise. Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Meanness

  

  There’s often a meanness to literalist religions. A sense that if they can keep their particular interpretation of God’s will, then anybody can. No compassion.... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Religions and Horrors

  

  My latest piece on The Golem has just appeared on Horror Homeroom. It’s free—check it out. In it I briefly discuss Jewish horror. I mainly write about... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• No Go Subjects

  

  The problem with being eclectic is that you never catch up with everything. Although I was once a professor of Hebrew Bible—not technically the field in which... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Animal Spirituality

  

  I had little scientific basis for my claims. It wasn’t that I didn’t have evidence, but it was more one of those “if you see something say something” kinds of... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Book Birthing

  

  Books, like humans and other animals, undergo a process of conception, development, and birth. It may seem, when holding a book in hand, that it is the... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• How Clean Is Your Brain?

  

  First it was in. Then it was out. Now nobody seems to be sure. “Brainwashing” isn’t really a scientific term, but human suggestibility is very well in... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gothic Dreams

  

  There’s something that compels a large number of people to consume material in the horror genre. Whether it takes the form of movies, books, or music, it is a... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY