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Ships of Hagoth is a digital-first literary magazine featuring creative nonfiction and theoretical essays by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Where other LDS-centric publications often look inward at the LDS tradition, we seek literary works that look outward through the curious, charitable lens of faith.

OUR BOOK IN A BOTTLE

Ships of Hagoth is pleased to announce its first book-length message in a bottle, AND ALL ETERNITY SHOOK, by
Jacob Bender, released April 2022.

About the Author

Jacob L. Bender is also the author of Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), a work similarly rooted in his Puerto Rican mission service and his mother's passing. In LDS studies, he has previously written for Dialogue, Sunstone, Peculiar Pages, Ships of Hagoth, the Eugene England Foundation, and The Association of Mormon Letters.

A young missionary comes home after two years in Puerto Rico only to find his mother on her deathbed.

Enraged, he wrestles with his God in passionate prayer as he pleads for her life; images and memories of his mission and his Mom jump, cut, and splice together in a cinematic crescendo, flashing furiously before his eyes as though he were the one dying and not her; all as he feels after some miracle, some impossibility, and the peace which surpasses understanding.

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A CALL FOR

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We are hoping—for “one must needs hope”—for creative nonfiction, theoretical essays, and craft essays that seek radical new ways to explore and express theological ideas; that are, like Hagoth, “exceedingly curious.”

We favor creative nonfiction that can trace its lineage back to Michel de Montaigne. Whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic.

As for theoretical essays: we welcome work that playfully and charitably explores the wide world of arts & letters—especially works created from differing religious, non-religious, and even irreligious perspectives—through the peculiar lens of a Latter-day Saint.

We read and publish submissions as quickly as possible, and accept simultaneous submissions.

The Book of Mormon Is Still Written For Our Day

Hagoth February 25, 2022

On Ukraine: “Behold, we have not come out to battle against you that we might shed your blood or power; neither do we desire to

The Meaning of Josiah

K.D. Taylor February 22, 2022

Josiah belonged to that special class of special needs students designated as “medically fragile.”

Music for a Sunday Morning, Part 18: Ben Harper’s “Amen Omen” and Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song”

Jacob Bender February 20, 2022

My mission president was one of those rare ones who refused to straight up ban genres of music, trusting us to use our own judgment

Super Rad, by The Aquabats (Annotated Readings)

Christian Richards February 15, 2022

We were strangers, and we were pilgrims

Tale of a T-Shirt

Jacob Bender February 15, 2022

In which Darwinistic Randomization is at once refuted and reaffirmed. Once, when I was an inexperienced young first-year MA student at the U who did

Music for a Sunday Morning, Part 17: Leonard Cohen’s, John Cale’s, and Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” for Your Valentines Day

Jacob Bender February 13, 2022

I’d been avoiding doing the single most overplayed, over-covered, over-exposed Sunday song of the past 30-odd years, simply because it is so obvious.

Review: Animals Collective’s Time Skiffs, as well as a Discussion of the “Primitivism” of Modernism, Mid-Aughts Indie Music, And Whatever Any of That Has to Do With Latter-day Art

Eric Goulden Kimball February 7, 2022

Time Skiffs is Animals Collective’s best new album since their 2009 masterpiece Merriweather Post Pavilion. That is a frankly low bar to clear.

Music for a Sunday Morning, Part 16: Willie Nelson’s “The Trouble-Maker” and “God’s Problem Child”

Jacob Bender February 6, 2022

I’ve mentioned before that I am Extremely Not A Country Fan, but there is an exception to every rule, and mine is Willie Nelson. One

Bicycle Race, by Queen (Annotated Readings)

Brian Rogers February 1, 2022

You say Lord, I say Christ

The Fourth Verse of Woodie Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Peter Woodrow January 31, 2022

Much like Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA,” Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” is one of those purportedly “patriotic” songs whose subversive lyrics

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