Replacement Theory and Other Evils

Revisiting GK Chesterton’s “Eugenics and Other Evils” at a New Jersey community college commencement in the wake of the Buffalo shooting.

Book Release: And All Eternity Shook Is Out Now

Ships of Hagoth is pleased to announce the release and publication of our first full-length message in a bottle, AND ALL ETERNITY SHOOK, by Jacob L. Bender, available in both paperback and ebook formats HERE. The book–a work of experimental nonfiction based upon the author’s own experiences–concerns a young missionary who comes home after two years in Puerto Rico only to find his mother on her deathbed.

Excerpt #2: And All Eternity Shook

A second excerpt from our forthcoming message in a bottle And All Eternity Shook, wherein a young missionary comes home after two years in Puerto Rico only to find his mother on her deathbed…

The Book of Mormon Is Still Written For Our Day

On Ukraine: “Behold, we have not come out to battle against you that we might shed your blood or power; neither do we desire to bring any one to the yoke of bondage. But this is the very cause for which ye have come against us” (Alma 44:2) On the Russian President about to exasperate […]

John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme (Annotated Readings)

[Note: like most Jazz albums, John Coltrane’s legendary 1965 LP A Love Supreme is largely an instrumental. However, within the record-sleeve’s inner fold, Coltrane included a written prayer that he said he “sang” through his saxophone on the 4th and final track, “Psalm,” which we have copied below. The presence of this unspoken prayer is […]