Steveawiggins

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• Goats, Sheep, and Politics

  

  Reasonable evangelicals need a new name. As a voting bloc, evangelicals have, according to many of their leaders, fallen from grace. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Feelings of Horror

  

  One thing that’s become clear to horror fans (or those of us who try to analyze it, anyway) is that more and more pundits are asking serious questions about... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Lizard Lords

  

  Photo by Bankim Desai on UnsplashIn the aftermath of last week’s attempted coup by the alt-right crowd, NBC ran a story about conspiracy theories. Specifically... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Year Book

  

  I have to confess that I’ve had trouble letting go of the holidays this year. Actually, that’s kind of normal. The let down from “sacred time” (however that... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Childhood Music

  

  I recently happened to hear the Alice Cooper song “Desperado.” If you’re thinking of the Eagles’ song, think again. Cooper’s song is from his 1971 album Killer. Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Slow Jinn

  

  You can sort of tell when an author has a background in religion. Early on in my blog writing, I made note when novels had religious elements. It’s so common... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Look, New…

  

  You may’ve noticed a new look to my website. That isn’t intentional. I woke up Friday only to learn that Word Press (which used to be friendly to individual... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Prophet Margins

  

  One of the most misunderstood of biblical phenomena is prophecy. One of the reasons it’s so misunderstood is that other ancient peoples came to associate it wit... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Christian Fragility

  

  Having read White Fragility, I was intrigued when a friend asked me if there might be such a thing as Christian fragility. I think he was onto something. Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• It Happened on Epiphany

  

  Photo credit: Martin Falbisoner, via Wikimedia CommonsCan you spell treason? It does begin with the letters “T-R-.” The events of yesterday made it difficult... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Manifest Duty

  

  As slaves to Mammon our celebrations are frequently curtailed. In agricultural culture, winter was a time when fields couldn’t be cultivated (at least in... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Comedic Horror

  

  Spoofs can be a great way of preventing us from taking ourselves too seriously. Extra Ordinary is a film I’d completely missed until my wife made a gift of it. Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Non-sacred Time

  

  It’s difficult to say goodbye to the holiday season (although, according to its origins it’s not over yet!). While the church still recognizes a couple more day... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bookselling 101

  

  My wife and I have sometimes toyed with the idea of running a mom and pop bookstore. Our combined lack of business sense (and capital) have always prevented... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Impatience

  

  It’s only human nature, I suppose. We see our own circumstances and fail to appreciate how others have equally (or perhaps more) complexity to juggle. I’m... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Seeking Renewal

  

  Now that many are breathing a sigh of relief that 2020 is finally over, I stop to ponder time. Measuring time, although most forms of life do it in some way,... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 2020 in Books

  

  As has become traditional on this blog, I like to revisit my reading for the year before the next one begins. No matter what else goes wrong, we have books. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Reading Ahead

  

  One of the highlights of the changing year, for the past five years of my life, has been the Modern Mrs. Darcy’s reading challenge. Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Yankee Doodle

  

  Some books stay with you in a way that hits very close to the nerve. Since I read Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court many years ago,... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Stay Curious

  

  Needle felting. I’d never heard of it. I’d got along some five-plus decades without knowing a thing about it. My daughter received a needle felting kit as a... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY