Hard as it might be to remember now, but there was a hot minute in the mid-2000s when Mormonism’s own Jon Heder seemed to have an outside chance of making the jump to actual mainstream Hollywood stardom.

On why, perhaps, it was so important to JRR Tolkein that there be a King who returns, in his Lord of the Rings trilogy.

What’s missing from the sequel isn’t the vulgarity of the original, but its good-natured humor—the assurance that death is one big hearty joke.

On the pernicious rhetoric of “choosing to be happy.”

What, if anything, do you do after Low?

And I cannot lie

We are indeed strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

A party album for the end of the world.