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.
A Study in Scarlett, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 debut Sherlock Holmes novel, memorably finishes with roughly 5 chapters of salacious anti-Mormon caricatures. Whereas Part
But why do any of us believe in the first place? Church meetings are boring, Church history is sketchy, and Church leaders are (by their
This is not an essay about The Da Vinci Code. I haven’t seen the movie; I haven’t read the book. But it’s not because I’m
Appearing on his massive (in every sense of the word) 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly and cited as a favorite track by no less
It is a fact universally acknowledged that Mormons love Star Wars; it is also a fact universally acknowledged that not nearly as many Mormons love
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
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