TumbleDweeeb

Emmitt Owens

Essays

  • Signs the Devil Holds: Volume III (1930-1950)

    SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS: Volume III (1930-1950)A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10312025 – 11032025) —    Between 1930 and 1950, Americans identified at least twenty distinct signs of Satan’s work on Earth: marijuana, comic books (intensified), Superman, juvenile delinquency, swing music, zoot suits, pinup girls, bikinis, television, rock and roll’s precursors,… Read more

  • Signs the Devil Holds: Volume II (1910-1930)

    SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS1910-1930A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy Emmitt Owens(Index #10282025-10302025) —    Between 1910 and 1930, Americans identified at least fifteen distinct signs of Satan’s work on Earth: jazz music, motion pictures, comic books, radio broadcasting, women’s suffrage, flappers, bobbed hair, makeup, smoking in public, short skirts, the Charleston dance, speakeasies, gangster… Read more

  • Signs the Devil Holds: Volume I (1890-1910)

    Signs the Devil Holds: 1890-1910By: Emmitt Owens(Index #10282025-10292025) A Documentary History of American Moral Panic    Between 1890 and 1910, Americans identified at least ten distinct signs of Satan’s work on Earth: electricity, women on bicycles, portable cameras, ice cream sodas, telephones, automobiles, penny dreadfuls and dime novels, “white slavery,” ragtime music, and the waltz.  … Read more

  • The Blunt Bible: The Call of Abram (Genesis 12:1-20)

    THE CALL OF ABRAM (Genesis 12:1-20)The Blunt Bible EditionBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10202025) —– ✍️ Author’s Note:   Following God without knowing the full plan is terrifying.You don’t get a roadmap. You don’t get a timeline. You don’t even get a destination address.   You get: “Go. I’ll tell you when you get there.”   And somehow, you’re supposed… Read more

  • The Blunt Bible: The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1-9)

    THE TOWER OF BABEL (Genesis 11:1-9)The Blunt Bible EditionBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10192025) —– ✍️ Author’s Note:   When I was 14, I experienced what linguistic confusion actually feels like.   I walked into a church service where suddenly—within minutes—half the room was speaking languages I couldn’t understand. Overlapping. Loud. Intense.   And I sat there, frozen, completely disoriented.  … Read more

  • The Blunt Bible: Noah’s Ark (Genesis 6-9)

    Did you catch that? ‘And with your seed after you.’ God’s covenant wasn’t just with Noah. It was with his descendants. As a child I was told it was for all mankind, never realizing: After the Flood, only eight people survived. Noah, his wife, Shem, Ham, Japheth, and their three wives. That’s it. Eight people.… Read more

  • The Blunt Bible: The Genealogy of Seth (Genesis 5)

    Genesis 5 might seem like the Bible’s most boring chapter—just a genealogy with names, ages, and that phrase “and he died” repeated nine times like a funeral drumbeat. But buried in this list is one of the weirdest details in Scripture: Enoch didn’t die. Everyone else lived 900+ years and still died. Adam? Dead at… Read more

  • The Blunt Bible: Two Family Trees (Genesis 4:17-26)

    I was writing about Cain’s wife when I had this wild realization: If you actually read Genesis 1, God already told us there were other humans—”Male and female created HE THEM” (plural). Then Genesis 2 zooms in on Adam and Eve specifically in the Garden of Eden. So when Cain leaves and “knows his wife”… Read more

  • The Blunt Bible: Cain & Abel (Genesis 4:1-16)

    CAIN & ABEL (Genesis 4:1-16)The Blunt Bible EditionBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10142025) —– ✍️ Author’s Note:   I almost didn’t write this one.   My original plan was to skip the full story and just give you the morals and the “Why This Matters” section. Move on quickly. Because Genesis 4 doesn’t work with the Blunt Bible format… Read more

  • The Double Move: How Halloween’s Date Traveled from May to November

    The Double Move: How Halloween’s Date Traveled from May to November By: Emmitt Owens(Index #09112025-10102025) Unraveling a Universal Human Pattern Most people know that Halloween falls on October 31st—the night before All Saints’ Day. But few realize that the Christian feast now celebrated on November 1st began its liturgical life on a completely different date:… Read more