the ARCH-HIVE

“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...

(Genesis 22; Exodus 11-13) He looked like a crazed prophet A holy fool in ecstasy A Pentacostal speaking tongues: Eyes rolled back, Head...

I'm absolutely fascinated by the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I know some people have a fraught...

Come ye heavy laden, ye outcast, oppressed, and poor in spirit. Come and listen while I tell you the great secret, the most important...

A retelling of the Genesis story in three languages. El Origen Se despertó en posición fetal, desnudo y sin recuerdo. Sintió el suelo...

If dad, of all people, was going to let embarrassment stop him from blessing his only daughter’s only daughters, mother would give him...

Guitars, or their electronic equivalents, are the standard instruments used in Church meetings. If other instruments are used, their use...

I am but dust, and dust will I be When gravity, heavy, wears down and claims me. I am a nothing, for so I have learned: "From dust thou...

“The Sacred and the Profane— at the Chapel” (Leviticus) I. On the pew behind me The grown man with Down Syndrome Burps hot on the nape of...

What do we really know about conditions in the spirit world? I believe a BYU religion professor’s article on this subject had it right:...

For Advent & Christmas Our best-selling Advent Zine Grab your copy before Advent starts this Sunday! Read more about the creation of this...

Advent has been a part of my family’s Christmas season as long as I can remember (thanks to a Finnish member of our ward in Boston,) and...

To Neil Longo, a borderlander, true friend, explorer, thinker, and believer. I’ll always miss you. Within the church, The Killers’ Mormon...

“Mom, Kelly and I are going to take photos by the railroad tracks!” Abigail yelled as she put on her silver hoop earrings. “Okay, be...

“Just as the body is one, with many members, … so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were baptized into the same body … and all were...

In the early days of the pandemic, that strange time of no clear public health guidance and an overwhelming sense of impending doom, my...

I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. ― Luke 3:8 ​Is the stone or seer the instrument...

Jon Brown is the creator of our latest HIVE ZINE, which is about growing up as a punk rocker and a Mormon. In this post, he talks about...

At the end of the universe, where the three empires considered Outer Darkness to lie, existed Luc. Luc was a small creature, not too...

A line of camels came out of the sand. On the first camel rode a famed artisan. Behind him rode the oldest son, the second son, the...