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.
When I first began teaching Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” over a decade ago, it was primarily because I was
Back during that summer after high school, I decided to not believe in God anymore. Not because of anything the Church did, mind you. Polygamy, racism
One night I had a dream wherein I analyzed the ending to Raiders of the Lost Ark in the context of Freud’s Theme of the
Ever since I wrote last week’s Beatles post, I’ve been reflecting more and more lately about that empty, motivation-less Summer after High School–when I didn’t
There should be a Joseph Smith biopic that plays it completely straight–tells the official Church-approved “faithful” history in period dress and so forth–except that it
This is the Big Kahuna–not only the first day of the week that leaves you in a mood, but the first Sunday of Year. As such, we will have to bust out the big guns: the Fab Four.
“What are we afraid of? What do men fear most? Believe it or not, it is joy. Against joy, society erects its most massive bulwarks…It
It has now been over 20 years since the year 2001 could plausibly be read as a vision of the future. Instead of space ships
I served my mission in Latin America, wherein December 25th is but the first day of Christmas, kicking off 12 straight days of parties and
Some hearts find peace[1]I’d had zero luck getting my wife to share in my love of Low till this song came out; though she now has
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