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BLESSED LITURGY OF GLORY
Arts & culture from the fringe.


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...


Third King of Judah
Apr 10, 20234 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 202214 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20223 min read
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 19, 20225 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20227 min read
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...
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