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…
Book Announcement: And All Eternity Shook
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)
The prayer from the record’s liner notes itself.
A Preliminary Bob Marley Soundtrack to a Joseph Smith Biopic
There should be a Joseph Smith biopic that plays it completely straight–tells the official Church-approved “faithful” history in period dress and so forth–except that it strictly uses a Bob Marley soundtrack. Hear me out. The boy prophet pondering which Church to join and finally deciding to pray about it? “Satisfy My Soul.” His courtship of […]
Some Nibley For Your New Years
“What are we afraid of? What do men fear most? Believe it or not, it is joy. Against joy, society erects its most massive bulwarks…It is not hell that men fear most, but heaven…Everything in our society conspires to dampen and control joy. Our sordid little pleasures are carefully channeled and commercialized; our pitiful escapes […]
Some Hearts at Christmas Time (Annotated Readings)
Some hearts find peace[1]I’d had zero luck getting my wife to share in my love of Low till this song came out; though she now has a habit of requesting “that one sad Low song,” and I’m like, honey, you’re gonna … Continue readingA sort of release[2]A “sort” of release, not an actual release—similar to how Christmas […]
Angels: They Are Scary
The first words off their lips are always “Fear not,” for even the righteous Prophets fall to their faces in utter terror at the awful and horrible sight of a full-fledged angel in glory.
Nauvoo Revisited
Once, there was a Catholic nunnery in Nauvoo, IL, the Mississippi river-town founded by Joseph Smith after the Saints were mobbed out of nearby Missouri. Nauvoo at its brief height rivaled Chicago in size and population, but swiftly dwindled into into another podunk, blink-and-you-miss-it Midwest town after Joseph Smith was murdered and the Mormons were […]
Halloween, by Robert Burns (Annotated Reading)
Upon that night, when fairies[1] light On Cassilis Downans[2] dance[3] Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze[4], On sprightly coursers prance; Or for Colean the route is ta’en, Beneath the moon’s[5] pale beams; There, up the cove, to stray and rove, Among the rocks and streams To sport that night. Among the bonny winding banks, […]