Steveawiggins

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• 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

• Making Frankenstein

  

  Some days ago I mentioned reading a book about Frankenstein. This was Making the Monster: The Science behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, by Kathryn Harkup. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• All Been Ready

  

  As the pandemic stretches on and getting things in stores—or even from Amazon—isn’t assured, my thoughts go back to Larry Norman. Specifically to his song “I... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Silent Sundays

  

  Since walks in the outdoors are a good thing, according to government guidelines, my family has been taking them. Actually, we tend to take walks anyway since... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• For Illustration Purposes

  

  With the non-essential stores closed, my daughter asked me the other day “does that mean bookstores?” Sadly, yes. More weekends than not I spend some time in a... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Proceeding 17-108

  

  This is important! Please share it. If you don’t like sharing blog posts please at least share this link: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Finding Fakes

  

  The Museum of the Bible has been a source of controversy since well before it even opened. Many people don’t understand what biblical scholars actually do, and... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Frankenstein’s Family

  

  The story of Frankenstein has many unexpected twists and turns. I’m currently reading a book about the writing of the novel—something I’ve done a number of time... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Green Dilemma

  

  It’s a dilemma. I face it every year. I don’t have green to wear and it’s St. Patrick’s Day. For your average run-of-the-mill citizen, this might not be an... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2020 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY