Rachel Helps
Dear Heavenly Mother
What was it like when my spirit was gestating? I hope it felt like a creative process, where some of the time you raced to put me...
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BLESSED LITURGY OF GLORY
Arts & culture from the fringe.
gnome chompsky
- Jan 23, 2020
- 8 min
Learning to Walk Again
I was sitting at the counter of Cubby’s in that dingy, perpetually-turning-over strip mall by the Provo Macey’s when my entire...
Archkeeper
- Jan 14, 2020
- 1 min
Stopping by the Provo Smiths on a Snowy Evening
By Priscilla Hoarse d’Ivorce Whose car that was I think I know But he lives at the Village, though He will not see me shopping here...
The Star-Eater
- Dec 31, 2019
- 6 min
My Testimony is My Life
Uncertainty is baked into the very fabric of the universe we live in. That some real phenomena are taking place is not in doubt.
gnome chompsky
- Dec 18, 2019
- 7 min
The Vision
A hundred fingers clenched and squeezed at my windpipe and I tried to scream, clawed at my neck only to find nothing there but my own skin.
LAZERos
- Dec 16, 2019
- 1 min
A Pair of Salt-Crust'd Lovers
Salt of the sea Salt of the land Moisture and drought Met hand in hand Walking together No longer apart Sand in their shoes Thirst in...
Archkeeper
- Dec 13, 2019
- 1 min
That Stone Confounds Us
Poetry by Tod Robbins Why do we trap you in a box? Why do we trap you in a box? As if you were ever held by walls in life! This capsule...
Archkeeper
- Oct 27, 2019
- 1 min
Sweet is the Peace the Desert Brings
By Evan Jones Have you ever heard flaps of a desert crow’s wings bouncing off orange earth; That sweet percussion — soft, rhythmic taps...
The Desert Prophet
- Oct 24, 2019
- 3 min
Holy, Humdrum, and Horrible: The Collapse of the Sacred, Banal, and Profane.
I attended a lecture a few months ago by professor Terryl Givens, where he described how Mormon theology collapses the sacred and the...
gnome chompsky
- Oct 23, 2019
- 6 min
No Country For Nice Boys
God help me, let’s do this I guess. Think of the limited amount of time we have on this earth and all the things we have to accomplish...
Archkeeper
- Oct 20, 2019
- 10 min
A Crisis of Faith: Per Aspera Ad Astra
Apollo 1 ended in disaster. Astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee sat in their command module, in Cape Canaveral, readying for launch...
gnome chompsky
- Oct 18, 2019
- 7 min
In Which Provo's Most Eligible Does Its Best to Kill God
A large frog and a small frog leaping through the air toward the same fly and the larger frog accidentally inhales the little one. A...
The One Who Hies
- Oct 16, 2019
- 4 min
The Promise of Mormonism
I am deeply Mormon. Not just from a genealogical perspective, but from a personal ideological point of view. That may strike some as hard to
Rachel Helps
- Oct 13, 2019
- 5 min
In Praise of Funeral Potatoes
My mom converted to the church as a teenager and doesn’t cook “Utah Mormon” food. Cream cheese was for bagels and cheesecake, not hot-pot...
gnome chompsky
- Oct 11, 2019
- 6 min
Provo's Most Eligible Episode 2: The Abomination of Desolation
I am pleased to announce that any fears we may have had during episode one of Provo’s Most Eligible that any of the men involved would...
gnome chompsky
- Oct 1, 2019
- 5 min
I'm Watching Provo's Most Eligible So You Don't Have To
As someone who is generally averse to most forms of reality TV and who holds a general disinterest for the puddle-deep lives of the...
Archkeeper
- Oct 1, 2019
- 1 min
A Welcome Note
As the founders of the ARCH-HIVE, we felt the need to set the stage for a new and refreshing project in the Bloggernacle. Working with...
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