Gazelem
Independence, MO Circa 3000 A.D.
I had a vivid vision Of strife and grand division: Of earthquakes in all places And tears upon all faces; Famine and death – a million...
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BLESSED LITURGY OF GLORY
Arts & culture from the fringe.
Archkeeper
Sep 214 min read
Jovial Visitations! Music for Your Latter-day Holiday
Do you remember the 21st night of September? It's a question every true Latter-day Saint asks themselves when fall comes around. From...
The Student of Rhythm
Aug 53 min read
Amnor: Dungeon Synth from The Book of Mormon
For a while, I had been thinking about doing a dungeon synth project: I liked the idea of making music on a DiY, lo-fi basis. In the...
Frazer Clough
Jul 11 min read
Sharing A Sunset
Tried to share a sunset but couldn’t because a photo wouldn’t show all the colours of my soul reflected on the horizon: Red, rage of my...
Corey Landon Wozniak
Jun 31 min read
Portrait of Eve
“Portrait of Eve” (Genesis 2-3) Bedecked with bangles of blueberries on thin wrists and ankles, Embalmed in a perfume of pine and black...
gnome chompsky
May 64 min read
The Last Priesthood Holder to Leave the Building Is Responsible for Ensuring All Doors Are Locked
The fluorescent lights fluttered like nervous eyelids and then released the darkness into the long hallway, where it spread itself thick...
D.A. Cooper
Apr 11 min read
Double Dactyls from the Golden Plates
Complainers Jiggery-pokery, Laman and Lemuel both loved to lament every day of their lives, loudly complaining quite intimidatingly, save...
Randall Smith
Mar 41 min read
Three Missionaries
When three missionaries were asked of their labor, Their answers were different back to their neighbor. "I'm tracting. I'm tracting,"...
Frazer Clough
Feb 51 min read
Sanctified Mountain
Tell me this, Tectonic shift, whether it is holier to rise up haughtily to the heavens or weather away over centuries surrendered to...
Friend of the HIVE
Jan 81 min read
Sacrifice
by J. Kenneth Doty Throughout the days of God's great plan, One grand theme comes through to man: Sacrifice! Father Adam, earth's first...
The One Who Hies
Nov 10, 20232 min read
Introducing "Another Advent Reflection"
“Advent…is a season that looks unflinchingly at the evil that now besets us, and stubbornly insists its days are numbered.” –Bonnie...
Third King of Judah
Nov 6, 20232 min read
Divine Data Streams
Every day, Brother Abinadi Roberts started with a question. As the sky began to blush with the hint of sunrise, he would pose his first...
SWKT
Oct 3, 20231 min read
Cursed Mormonwave
"It's a rainy day in Utah Valley, so you decide to spend the evening at the local Deseret Industries Thrift Store, perusing the...
The One Who Hies
Sep 14, 20232 min read
HIVE meetup: Jovial Visitation Social
Several years ago, ARCH-HIVE-ite, musician, and Provo Music Magazine editor Zach Collier and his friends began creating new traditions...
Michael J. Sorensen
Sep 4, 20234 min read
What is to be done with Elder-berry?
“Dad, I’m gay” The father sat, trying to wrap his brain around those words. His attention was pulled away for a moment to the peculiar...
Corey Landon Wozniak
Aug 1, 20231 min read
My 2-Year-Old Son Has a Febrile Seizure
(Genesis 22; Exodus 11-13) He looked like a crazed prophet A holy fool in ecstasy A Pentacostal speaking tongues: Eyes rolled back, Head...
Gazelem
Jul 28, 20232 min read
Behind the Zines - HIVE ZINE-017: A Brief History of the Restoration League
I'm absolutely fascinated by the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I know some people have a fraught...
Randall Smith
Jul 3, 20231 min read
The Love We Share
Come ye heavy laden, ye outcast, oppressed, and poor in spirit. Come and listen while I tell you the great secret, the most important...
Gabriel González Núñez
Jun 5, 20234 min read
γένεσις tríptico
A retelling of the Genesis story in three languages. El Origen Se despertó en posición fetal, desnudo y sin recuerdo. Sintió el suelo...
Terrie Petree
May 1, 20236 min read
A Name and a Blessing
If dad, of all people, was going to let embarrassment stop him from blessing his only daughter’s only daughters, mother would give him...
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