Steveawiggins

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• A Few Days

  

  My fellow blogger over at Verbomania (worth following!) posted a piece on the word Romjul. In case you haven’t read the post, Romjul is the Norwegian word for... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Seaing 2020

  

  It’s funny what sticks in your head. As a ten-year-old 2020 seemed impossibly far in the future. And it was very wet. Not because of global warming, but... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hereby Resolved

  

  Photo credit: chensiyuan, Wikipedia CommonsNew Year’s resolutions have never been my thing. Having had a good Calvinistic upbringing, I’m a natural... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 2019 Books

  

  Goodreads is always a little eager to put the tally on a year’s worth of reading. This year, however, since I’ve been engaged in some larger books, they may be... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Falling

  

  Time. It’s a resource of which I’ve become acutely aware. If I probe this I find that among the assorted reasons is the fact that I’ve finished my fourth book... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Writing Prophets

  

  So I was sitting at a table with two writers I’d just met. It was at the Easton Book Festival and since I’m new to the area I was very aware that I didn’t know... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Biblical Employment

  

  The other day I read something where the author casually suggested some biblical personage was doing their job. That idea seemed to stick in my throat on the wa... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Virtually Religious

  

  “Which god would that be? The one who created you? Or the one who created me?” So asks SID 6.7, the virtual villain of Virtuosity. Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Conversations

  

  Arnold Lakhovsky, The Conversation, via Wikimedia CommonsWhile I tend not to discuss books on this blog until I’ve finished them, I realize this practice comes... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• First Christmas Parable

  

  The Christmas story is full of surprises. This year near Bethlehem, a parable occurred to me. Like many parables, it raises questions. A question for all you me... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Seasonal Reading (Not)

  

  I might excuse writing a post on Satan on Christmas Eve by positing that I misread the title of this book as Santa. After all, as Ryan Stokes explains, the Gree... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Truth Lies

  

  I recently saw a Trump supporter claiming, unsurprisingly, that everyone’s lying except Trump. Of course, I could be lying. According to the Washington Post,... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Place of Temples

  

  Gobeklitepe, or more properly, Göbekli Tepe, stunned the archaeological world a few years back. This site in what is now Turkey contained what is apparently a... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shortest Day

  

  This is it. It’s here. Today marks the winter solstice, the longest night. Those who campaign to keep Christ in Christmas prefer not to acknowledge that the dat... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fearful Faithful

  

  It’s sitting on the table next to my chair and I’m afraid of it. It all started during the Easton Book Festival. I feel sorry for those people who have to... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Veg Out

  

  It came to me vividly when I heard a speaker self-deferentially say he was crazy. This was, I suspect, a way of defusing the fact that when vegans speak others... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• All in This Together

  

  The rain falling from the dark sky is barely liquid. The thermometer reads 33 as we step out into the early evening—this is not the kind of night I’d want to... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sci-Fi Culture

  

  I’ve recently taken up rereading Ray Bradbury stories from my childhood. Bradbury’s difficult to classify, but he’s often genrefied as science fiction, but... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Aging Goddesses

  

  While not a woman, I am over fifty and I have both a personal and professional interest in goddesses. Some friends recently asked how I came to write a... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• I Swear

  

  The ongoing political fiasco of our nation (and within several states as well), raises a very basic issue. We trust our legislators to do what we pay them to... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY