
Arrested Apotheosis in NBC’s The Good Place: An LDS Analysis
When even a show as clever and thoughtful as The Good Place can’t quite finish the thought on Eternal Progression, then it’s time to acknowledge
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 even a show as clever and thoughtful as The Good Place can’t quite finish the thought on Eternal Progression, then it’s time to acknowledge
I of course knew nothing about Manny Fox the one and only time I met him; only years later would the obituaries inform me that
The widespread practice of polygamy and polyandry among the 19th-century Saints is one of those thorny topics that no one in LDS studies can avoid
Across the street from Voodoo Donuts in downtown Portland sits a can’t-miss-it wall painting that reads: “KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD.” I’ve heard it claimed that Austin,
When I was a teenager I read The Catcher in the Rye. I also read Catch-22, Calvin and Hobbes comics, wore Chuck Taylors, and listened
Back when I still taught in Salt Lake, a Navajo student approached me after class one day to get an absence excused. She’d had to
Lost amidst all of the furor of the purported blasphemy of the tongue-in-cheek religious horror/comedy The Wednesday Night Bible Study Club is just how one-the-nose
[Presented before the Association of Mormon Letters at the UC-Berkeley LDS Institute of Religion, 29 March 2019] “Mark Z. Danielewski was born in New York City and
(A transcript of a real-life conversation in Rexburg, ID from the Kim Clark era, who was noted for opening every Tuesday Devotional with…) It’s another
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