Terrie Petree
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...
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BLESSED LITURGY OF GLORY
Arts & culture from the fringe.
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...
The One Who Hies
- May 27, 2021
- 3 min
"A Calling"
It had been 46 hours, 27 minutes and 32 seconds since Mindaugas had received news that he would be released this coming Sunday. He felt...
Theric Jepson
- Apr 2, 2021
- 1 min
Fill in the blanks, Lord!
Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Dieter F. Uchtdorf Fill in the blanks, Lord, fill in the blanks! I simply don’t love...
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