Essays

Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.

Semi-Random Thoughts on Chatbots and the Book of Mormon

Jacob Bender January 28, 2023

Essaying to escape the predictive algorithm all while never evading the eye of the Almighty.

On Finally Reading Jane Eyre and the Young Women of Zion

Spencer Antolini January 24, 2023

I initially started reading Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre more out of sense of English majory duty than anything else, honestly; I’d somehow completed a Masters

Princes of the Universe, by Queen [Annotated Readings]

Brian Rogers January 20, 2023

Here we are[1]Yes, let us let the premier gay man in Rock teach us our own Gospel! I can think of no better tribute to

On the Appeal of Nirvana to Gen Zers and the Gospel

Eric Goulden Kimball January 15, 2023

Having children myself has really made me meditate on what exactly Christ meant that we must “be as little children” if we are to inherit

On the Original Star Wars Trilogy and Becoming Like Unto a Little Child

Rod N. Berry January 12, 2023

I had a minor Christmas miracle last month: while poking around my Dropbox for some forgotten reason, I stumbled upon the Bittorrent for the “despecialized”