Steveawiggins

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• Reading Connections

  

  It’s flattering to have someone notice your work. The other day I had the very first email from someone who’d read Holy Horror and wanted to discuss it. Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cancelled Easter

  

  The year they cancelled Easter. Well, not exactly. Perhaps I’m merely a product of the commercialization of my time, but my thoughts go back to the Grinch. Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bunny Or No?

  

  Since we’re in the midst of a smaller holiday season (capitalistic societies can only get away with one major holiday season because the workers must work)... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Holiday Complex

  

  Now that we’re in the midst of a complex of Judeo-Christian holidays (Passover, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter, as well as other spring rites), I’ve been... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Post-Pandemic

  

  Something I’ve noticed: throughout this crisis business people have been fretting how hard it will be to reestablish everything “like it was” when this is all... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Look, Don’t Touch

  

  It’s spooky. Going to the grocery store, I mean. In the best of times I don’t get out much, but since groceries are only really in supply (somewhat short)... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• All the Tea

  

  I’ve been reading a lot about China lately. Political scientists have been interested in its economic growth for some time and it has rivaled the GDP of the... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Denying Reality

  

  The science-deniers in the White House have had to accommodate themselves to evidence-based facts and they look none too happy about it. Science denial has a... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• WHO Cares?

  

  During this time of crisis my employer has suggested keeping an eye on the World Health Organization website. I’ve been doing that with a nearly religious... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More Than Books

  

  Careers. A pandemic is no time to think about changing jobs unless you’re forced to, but I often wonder if I got it wrong. No matter what my job was, I wanted i... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Haunted States

  

  I’ve been going through a spate of watching “The Haunting” movies. Just to be clear, I don’t mean The Haunting, by Robert Wise (1963), which is excellent. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Disease Divine?

  

  I suspect many religious people are wondering where God is amid the current pandemic. Theodicy (explaining the suffering of the innocent while defending the... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Sterling

  

  Only indirectly has the coronavirus pandemic influenced my decision to read books of short stories. Indirectly because bookstores are closed and I have several... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Prophets and Exiles

  

  One of the scariest passages in the Bible is Ezekiel 33.7-9. I first read this before I was a teenager and it scared me deeply. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Occam’s Disposable Razor

  

  Since new books are kind of rare right now, I’m reading through some of those I’ve collected but haven’t actually read. One is Near-Death Experiences:... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Distance Education

  

  As an exile from academia, I do feel for my employed colleagues who are having to learn distance education techniques on the fly. Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Prophetic Breakfast

  

  The irony doesn’t escape me—and why does irony always try to do that, anyway?—that Ezekiel 4:9 is about famine. I’ve posted about the breakfast cereals from Foo... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A-changin’

  

  The other day, while engaged in a mindless task, I had Bob Dylan playing in the background. When I say Bob Dylan I mean the Bob Dylan of the 1960s. Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• New Habits

  

  We are a family of readers. Still, during the pandemic things change. Not only is my wife working from home, my daughter is also here, doing the same. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Essentials

  

  The current crisis, in my mind, dates to Thursday, March 12. That particular day, at least in my socially distant location, the pandemic became a panic.... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY