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Ethan James Young’s 2024 LP, Fallen From Heaven , is not just an album about leaving The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....

The A24 horror film Heretic offers a unique and thought-provoking portrayal of Latter-day Saints, positioning itself as a significant...

Editor's note: This poem is a companion piece to The Three Kings By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The lead image is based on Timothy from...

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...

Do you remember the 21st night of September? It's a question every true Latter-day Saint asks themselves when fall comes around. From...

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...

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...

“Portrait of Eve” (Genesis 2-3) Bedecked with bangles of blueberries on thin wrists and ankles, Embalmed in a perfume of pine and black...

The fluorescent lights fluttered like nervous eyelids and then released the darkness into the long hallway, where it spread itself thick...

Complainers Jiggery-pokery, Laman and Lemuel both loved to lament every day of their lives, loudly complaining quite intimidatingly, save...

When three missionaries were asked of their labor, Their answers were different back to their neighbor. "I'm tracting. I'm tracting,"...

Tell me this, Tectonic shift, whether it is holier to rise up haughtily to the heavens or weather away over centuries surrendered to...

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...

“Advent…is a season that looks unflinchingly at the evil that now besets us, and stubbornly insists its days are numbered.” –Bonnie...

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...

"It's a rainy day in Utah Valley, so you decide to spend the evening at the local Deseret Industries Thrift Store, perusing the...

Several years ago, ARCH-HIVE-ite, musician, and Provo Music Magazine editor Zach Collier and his friends began creating new traditions...

“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...

How writing Wikipedia pages on church history fizzled my religious anger. In some ways, my ego wants to believe that God put me in the...

A Brief Note on HIVE ZINE from the ARCH-HIVE HIVE ZINE is a collaborative zine created by members of the ARCH-HIVE network. Like other...

Amber Lee is the creator of our newest HIVE ZINE, a lush, full-color collection of collages & poetry about Eve and the author's evolving...

She was preoccupied by the story and what it could mean. First, she didn’t like the part where God stole a rib from Adam (while he was...

by J. Kenneth Doty It happened in the closing seconds of the basketball game. The score was tied, and possession of the ball was the key...

Abram wept at the altar. Old Abram, wise Abram, Faithful, unshakable, unchangeable Abram, Bless the earth with posterity Abram, Fell on...

The holidays are upon us, and the ARCH-HIVE has once again compiled the perfect gift guide to fill all your peculiar Mormon shopping...

Note: This is an expanded version of remarks that I delivered at the 2021 International Affirmation Conference, 18 September 2021. I felt...

“A poor wayfaring man of grief,” our congregation sang, as tears welled in my eyes. This hymn often makes me emotional, but usually not...

Amidst a family reunion and a somewhat whirlwind vacation in Utah County, I managed to join some other members of The ARCH-HIVE for a...

David F. Holland writes the final entry in the Maxwell Institute’s Brief Theological Introductions series, Moroni: a brief theological...

The blood from my lips made a pretty smear on my palm. Pain and a bitter taste filled my head. The man on my right jerked me upward....

The book of Ether strikes me as a microcosm of The Book of Mormon as a whole, detailing the rise and fall of a civilization in one short...