Last Christmas

I gave you my heart/but the very next day, you TORE IT APART [the more correct rhyme that everyone’s been sub-vocalizing for nearly 40 years now…]

The First Presidency Halloween Devotional

We have mentioned before how odd it is that we have a First Presidency Christmas Devotional but not an Easter Devotional. We frankly believe that we shouldn’t stop there. We believe there should also be a First Presidency Halloween Devotional.

On General Conference and Unwitting Inspiration

October 2003. I was a missionary, and our top investigator agreed to watch General Conference with us at the stake center. I was worried she was bored throughout the session, but she later told us that it was though the speakers were talking directly to her, that she felt the Spirit more powerfully than she […]

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.