On finally coming around to my old mission president’s favorite band, and becoming as a little child, for of such is the Kingdom of God.

Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, mainland China has been the LDS Church’s white whale.

On Aram Saroyan’s one-word poem, the Light of Christ, and the Kishi Bashi song my wife and I danced to at our wedding reception.

Featuring selections from the hit Broadway musical.

On what keeps Nibley relevant long after the rest of his scholarship becomes museum pieces.

The startling finale to Part 1, in which the Sword of Laban itself becomes the root of the Deleuzian self-replicating machine that destroys the Nephites–and us.

Note: This paper is a work of non-fiction, fiction, postcolonial studies, the exploitation of brown bodies, mineralogy, literary analysis, magical realism, philosophy, and science. In short, it is Deleuzian in both subject matter and in its construction.

The Great Plan of Happiness as an act of resistance.

Simpatico strategies for spiritual liberation.

Yes, I have been my mother and I have been my son.
-Deleuze and Guattari