Archkeeper
- Sep 21
- 4 min
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 5
- 3 min
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 1
- 1 min
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 3
- 1 min
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 6
- 4 min
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 1
- 1 min
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 4
- 1 min
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 5
- 1 min
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 8
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 4 min
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, 2023
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 4 min
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, 2023
- 6 min
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...
Third King of Judah
- Apr 10, 2023
- 4 min
The Devil's Music
Guitars, or their electronic equivalents, are the standard instruments used in Church meetings. If other instruments are used, their use...
Gazelem
- Mar 6, 2023
- 2 min
Dust
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...
Corey Landon Wozniak
- Feb 6, 2023
- 1 min
The Sacred and the Profane
“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...
Eric James Stone
- Jan 2, 2023
- 5 min
Three Deaths for Ammon J. Merrill
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:...
The One Who Hies
- Nov 23, 2022
- 3 min
ARCH-HIVE Gift Guide 2022
For Advent & Christmas Our best-selling Advent Zine Grab your copy before Advent starts this Sunday! Read more about the creation of this...
The One Who Hies
- Nov 16, 2022
- 2 min
Introducing the Advent Zine
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...
Sam Dearden
- Nov 7, 2022
- 5 min
West Hills III- The Jack Mormon Prayer
To Neil Longo, a borderlander, true friend, explorer, thinker, and believer. I’ll always miss you. Within the church, The Killers’ Mormon...
Rachel Helps
- Oct 3, 2022
- 14 min
Spiritual Adjustment in the Ghost World
“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...
Aisling "Ash" Rowan
- Sep 5, 2022
- 6 min
Stewards of the Lifewater
“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...
Sam Dearden
- Aug 1, 2022
- 4 min
The Modernist Mormon Chapel: Persecution, Insularity, and Out-Groups
In the early days of the pandemic, that strange time of no clear public health guidance and an overwhelming sense of impending doom, my...
Owl of the Desert
- Jul 11, 2022
- 1 min
Plain and Precious
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
- Jun 27, 2022
- 3 min
Behind the Zines: Revolution Rock
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...
Adam McLain
- Jun 20, 2022
- 5 min
Paradisiacal Locust
At the end of the universe, where the three empires considered Outer Darkness to lie, existed Luc. Luc was a small creature, not too...
Terrie Petree
- Jun 6, 2022
- 5 min
Liahona, Girl of Curious Workmanship
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...
Rachel Helps
- May 16, 2022
- 7 min
Becoming Scripturally Literate
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...
Archkeeper
- May 4, 2022
- 7 min
Behind the Zines: HIVE ZINE-008
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...
Archkeeper
- Apr 12, 2022
- 4 min
Behind the Zines - HIVE ZINE-014: Seasons of Eve
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...
Voice of Eucatastrophe
- Apr 4, 2022
- 2 min
Genesis 2
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...
Friend of the HIVE
- Mar 7, 2022
- 7 min
The Sports Epic That Zion Forgot
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...
Gazelem
- Feb 7, 2022
- 1 min
Abram and His Father
Abram wept at the altar. Old Abram, wise Abram, Faithful, unshakable, unchangeable Abram, Bless the earth with posterity Abram, Fell on...
Archkeeper
- Nov 1, 2021
- 5 min
The ARCH-HIVE Gift Guide 2021
The holidays are upon us, and the ARCH-HIVE has once again compiled the perfect gift guide to fill all your peculiar Mormon shopping...
The One Who Hies
- Sep 19, 2021
- 6 min
“Queerness as Grace: The Spiritual Strength of Imagination and Creation”
Note: This is an expanded version of remarks that I delivered at the 2021 International Affirmation Conference, 18 September 2021. I felt...
The One Who Hies
- Aug 29, 2021
- 3 min
A Hymn, A Witness, and A Hope
“A poor wayfaring man of grief,” our congregation sang, as tears welled in my eyes. This hymn often makes me emotional, but usually not...
The One Who Hies
- Aug 22, 2021
- 3 min
REVIEW: 1820 The Musical
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...
The One Who Hies
- Aug 8, 2021
- 3 min
REVIEW: Moroni: a brief theological introduction, David F. Holland
David F. Holland writes the final entry in the Maxwell Institute’s Brief Theological Introductions series, Moroni: a brief theological...
Terrie Petree
- Jul 18, 2021
- 7 min
Taken
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 One Who Hies
- Jul 11, 2021
- 3 min
REVIEW: Ether: a brief theological introduction, Rosalynde Frandsen Welch
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...
The One Who Hies
- Jun 27, 2021
- 2 min
REVIEW: Mormon: a brief theological introduction, Adam Miller
Adam says early in the book that “Mormon’s discipleship depends, first and foremost, on his ability to witness the end of the world”...
Friend of the HIVE
- Jun 20, 2021
- 7 min
The Handmaid of the Lord
by Jared Cook “Hail!” The girl stopped her work and listened. “Thou art highly favored! THE LORD is with thee! Blessed art thou among...
Friend of the HIVE
- Jun 13, 2021
- 9 min
Legends of Sanpete
by Lyndsey My Mom is positive that there are mummies buried somewhere in Sanpete County. Not your typical mummies either. Nope—these are...
Friend of the HIVE
- Jun 6, 2021
- 2 min
A Collection of Eternities
by Sunny i. I wish I had the gift of tongues So I could hear the hearts of men And soothe and heal the cries of souls That search and...