Brief Notes on Jacques Derrida, the Center is Not the Center, and Helaman 1:24
On midrashes and military disasters
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.
On midrashes and military disasters
On the War in Heaven, the Felix Culpa, and the Armenian Genocide.
The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, in his world-renowned 1968 treatise Pedagogy of the Oppressed, argued that even revolutionary-minded instructors often fall into the trap of treating their students as blank-slates to be passively indoctrinated.
Or, on the necessity of cracking up for repentance.
On a group of pioneers struggling to establish a Zion society of no-rich-no-poor in a desert landscape, and also Utah.
You know who else went on a Trek?
On the multiple meanings of Funk.
Imperfect love lets in all fear.
On our baptismal covenants and finding resolution in the irresolution itself.
God is an (un?) American.
Whether you’re an interested writer or reader, subscribe below and we’ll keep you in the loop.