On Low’s “Death of a Salesman” and Retribution Gospel Choir’s “Electric Guitar”
Or, on the inevitability of regret–and therefore the necessity of the Atonement.
Confessions of a Reluctant Ben Folds Fan
Or, On Generosity.
Waiting for the San Juan Puerto Rico Temple
Like Waiting for Godot, only longer…
Low Album Primer
I am still processing my grief at the recent passing of Low, whom I have previously argued was secretly the most Mormon band to ever exist, in all the best ways possible. So, I created this album guide.
Semi-Random Thoughts on Chatbots and the Book of Mormon
Essaying to escape the predictive algorithm all while never evading the eye of the Almighty.
Nothing Changes/Everything Can Change, on New Years Day
On U2 and Rage Against the Machine.
Silver Rider, by Low [Annotated Readings]
Time is the Great Destroyer.
Requiem for Low and Mimi Parker
Remember that all we are is what we love, and not a fragment more.
Day of the Dead in English
An older creative piece (and sort-of sequel to “And All Eternity Shook”) that blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction, the same way that the Mexican Day of the Dead (not to mention our own theology) blurs the line between the living and the dead.
Excerpt–Under My Vodou: Haiti, Revolution, and Zombie Transformation as Liberation in Alejo Carpentier’s “The Kingdom of This World” and Brian Moore’s “No Other Life”
[Reviving an older series from a year ago for this Halloween season, I provide another selection from Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), available for order here or here, or as a free pdf here or here. As with our previous four excerpts, we share this chapter as yet another […]