Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4674 )

• Weird Dreams

  

  It’s almost like we’re all part of a huge experiment, perhaps orchestrated from outer space, to see how we react to being caged. The pandemic and its... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Women’s History

  

  March is Women’s History Month. My reading of actual history as of late has focused on the ancient Celts, so I confess to falling behind on modern women’s... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Come People and Consider

  

  “Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Signal

  

  It’s difficult to tell signal from noise sometimes. Specialists in such things tell us that it’s easy to mistake noise for signal. An exception to this seems... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Winter Waiting

  

  The waiting, as Tom Petty knew, is the hardest part. Along the slow turning of the wheel of the year it’s now light enough to go jogging before work. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Still Standing

  

  Investment. Time is an investment, and I recently invested in Stephen King’s The Stand. You have to realize that I made this decision sight-unseen. More than on... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2021 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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