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.
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?
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
Go visit the Carthage Jail visitor’s center in Illinois, and you will be treated to brief video on the life of Joseph Smith. It opens with the following quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1838 Harvard Divinity Address: “It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake…”
Not that I was planning on it or anything (but then, who is?)…
“The Holy Ghost has no other effect than pure intelligence.” -Joseph Smith
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