Steveawiggins

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• Bible Lesson

  

  I was recently reading the revised preface and “To the Reader” (in draft form) for the NRSVue. In case alphabet soup’s not your thing, that’s the New Revised... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Another Turn

  

  I have read The Turn of the Screw before. Henry James’ most famous ghost story is a classic of ambiguity. My previous reading, maybe a decade ago, was in an... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Music Time

  

  Although I love music I rarely have time to listen to it. My work demands concentration and if I have music on I have trouble paying attention to the task befor... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Favorite Color

  

  Blue has always been my favorite color. Even growing up Republican, I preferred it. Like many Americans I awoke last Wednesday to a national map mostly red and... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Seeking Knowledge

  

  So, I’m doing some research into a seventeenth-eighteenth century alchemist named Johann Konrad Dippel. He lived in what would become Germany, and had a bit of ... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• State of the Nation

  

  It has been a long week. With an incumbent who refuses to tell the truth, we’ve faced three days of knuckle-biting so far and each day stirs up the butterflies... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Looking to the Stars

  

  American Indian culture fascinates me. As my usual readers know, so does the unusual. A few years back I read Ardy Sixkiller Clarke’s Encounters with Star... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Strange Reading

  

  The internet has changed things. Perhaps forever. I’m thinking particularly of the way we read. Not just ebooks, either. I’m primarily a book reader. That is... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Please Vote

  

  If you haven’t done so already, please vote. This day has never felt so portentous before. I’ve been voting since the 1980s and we’ve had some real unsavory... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dreamland

  

  I don’t keep a dream journal, but with my odd sleeping habits I’m thinking maybe I should. You see, waking in the middle of a dream is a good way to remember it... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Is It Really Saving?

  

  Daylight Saving Time has begun. Or ended, I can never keep track of which. All I know is that when I’m supposed to being enjoying another hour abed my mind wake... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Halloween

  

  Halloween seems especially portentous this year. Some of us thrive in this introduction to what was a major set of Christian holidays that encompassed many paga... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Wild God

  

  Living with a Wild God, by Barbara Ehrenreich, is one of those books I wanted to put down gently after reading it, for fear that it might explode. Or maybe it... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Abbey

  

  In my efforts to satisfy the Gothic longing of October—such a melancholy month—I’ve been reading Jane Austen’s classic, Northanger Abbey. Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dreams and Nightmares

  

  Since posting just a few days back about the cover of Nightmares with the Bible it has now been posted on the Rowman Littlefield website (more on that in a... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• War of Egos

  

  As an author you have to believe in your book. Experience has taught me that if you don’t, nobody will. Still, there are ways of believing in your book while... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Keep It Covered

  

  I’ve seen it at last. The cover concept for my book. I’ve been manicly checking the Rowman and Littlefield (parent company of Lexington/Fortress Academic—a... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• October Reflections

  

  The people are dressed in their finest. The best food and drink available are spread on white tablecloths while rats scurry underfoot. The feasters invite Lucy... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Moral Imperative

  

  It was a walk up a long, steep hill, but it was worth it. Last Saturday my wife and I voted. It had the feeling of accomplishment. The long, steep hill was... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ode to Bookstores

  

  The pandemic has changed everything. You knew that, of course. Like many people in fields of regular job uncertainty, we’ve curtailed spending as much as we can. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY