On the ineffable quirkiness of the Mexican Day of the Dead, English Guy Fawkes Day, and U.S. Thanksgiving.

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.

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.

The African-American novelist[1]and ex-youth pastor James Baldwin shares the following anecdote from his essay collection The Cross of the Redemption. Billie Holiday, the famed singer

[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

We’ve all read the books before and we’ve all seen the movies, so at this point Gollum’s role in the final destruction of the Ring

The curious paradox of how our ostensible “Low Art” is so much less accessible than our ostensible “High Art.”

Ponderizing a line from an old David A. Bednar talk.

A Latin Rocker reminds us: if we’re not preparing for eternity, then just what do we think we’re doing here?