Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4674 )

• 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

• 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