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 […]
TS Eliot’s The Waste Land Centennial [Annotated Readings]

Re-writing TS Eliot’s notorious endnotes with the same cheeky sense of humor that Eliot used when he wrote them in the first place.
Book Excerpt #5: And All Eternity Shook

Yes, I have been my mother and I have been my son.
-Deleuze and Guattari
Spencer W. Kimball’s Bicentennial Address and America by Sufjan Stevens [Annotated Readings]
Don’t do to me what you did to America…
Book Excerpt #4: And All Eternity Shook

Also read the second AML review here.
Book Excerpt #3: And All Eternity Shook

Our third excerpt from our first book-length message in a bottle And All Eternity Shook, available now. Read the recent AML review here.
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.