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.

Angels: They Are Scary

The first words off their lips are always “Fear not,” for even the righteous Prophets fall to their faces in utter terror at the awful and horrible sight of a full-fledged angel in glory.

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Nauvoo Revisited

Once, there was a Catholic nunnery in Nauvoo, IL, the Mississippi river-town founded by Joseph Smith after the Saints were mobbed out of nearby Missouri.

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