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.
Halloween falls on a Sunday this year, and hence it feels apropos to examine a pair of religious songs that fit in with the holiday’s
Upon that night, when fairies[1] light On Cassilis Downans[2] dance[3] Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze[4], On sprightly coursers prance; Or for Colean the
I had a mission companion who was convinced that the Patrick Swayze film Ghost was written by members of the Church. His reasoning? Because when
I was never a particularly big fan of ye olde Screamo-Emo during its mid-2000s hey-day (I was already in college at the time, so was
[Apropos of the October season, here is another selection from Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), available for order here
Continuing our discussion from last week concerning the role of romance (or lack thereof) in those Sunday Morning moods, we now flip genders to consider
[The following is excerpted from the Introduction to Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). If you are a college librarian,
It appears that every missionary gets the pop-song they deserve. When my Dad was serving in England in the early-’70s, every trunky elder he told
You don’t have to have a relationship on the rocks to wake up with that Sunday morning mood, but it definitely doesn’t hurt. More often
If you served your mission anywhere in or near the Bible belt in the early-aughts, you heard all about Bruce Almighty. Contacts and investigators would
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