Steveawiggins

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• Bats and Bloodsuckers

  

  In what looks (somewhat cynically) like at attempt to add newness to frightfully old news, the World Health Organization has renamed COVID-19 to the much scarie... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Paper Or Electronic?

  

  Publishers are scrambling (and who can blame them?) to get ebooks out. Since bookstores have been closed (I’d classify them as essential businesses, in an... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ancient History, Part 3

  

  It was an old idea. I had it when I was still teaching at Nashotah House, that’s how ancient it is. It seemed to me that if brains evolve with the rest of us,... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Thoroughly Earth Day

  

  It’s difficult to say, since I don’t get outside much, but reports have come in that the earth is healing itself while we’ve been sequestered. Rivers usually... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Moralizing Gods

  

  In my more radical moods I sing along with John Cougar about fighting authority. Living in society means never being completely free. This pandemic only... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• See Monster

  

  What happens when someone encounters something anomalous? In real life this is often described as a religious event. In fiction that sometimes happens as well,... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Who’s To Blame?

  

  Back at Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary, we were a closed community. Well, not completely closed, as much as some may have desired it. When a communicable... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Connecting Connecticut

  

  One of the many lessons of the current pandemic has been that my appreciation of horror is not misplaced. Horror Homeroom has just published my piece “Demons... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bug Eyes

  

  Science fiction and horror are close kin. Once relegated to the cheap rack of “genre fiction,” both have now developed considerable literary sophistication,... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Peaceful Lessons

  

  We are all, I think, looking for hope. Probably due to the way I was raised, I often seek signs. There’s no way to know if said signs are mere coincidences or... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Learning To Fly

  

  It’s perhaps the most deeply rooted human dream. Flying. Women Who Fly, by Serinity Young, is a fascinating book. Subtitled Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Begging Your Question

  

  I still remember when I first consciously heard it. The phrase “begging the question,” I mean. I was a doctoral student at the time and one thing you do in... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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