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BLESSED LITURGY OF GLORY
Arts & culture from the fringe.


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...

gnome chompsky
Jan 23, 20208 min read


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...

Archkeeper
Jan 14, 20201 min read


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.

The Star-Eater
Dec 31, 20196 min read


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.

gnome chompsky
Dec 18, 20197 min read


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...

LAZERos
Dec 16, 20191 min read


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
Dec 13, 20191 min read



The Desert Prophet
Dec 2, 20192 min read
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...

Archkeeper
Oct 27, 20191 min read


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...

The Desert Prophet
Oct 24, 20193 min read
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...

gnome chompsky
Oct 23, 20196 min read


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...

Archkeeper
Oct 20, 201910 min read


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...

gnome chompsky
Oct 18, 20197 min read
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

The One Who Hies
Oct 16, 20194 min read


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...

Rachel Helps
Oct 13, 20195 min read
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 11, 20196 min read
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...

gnome chompsky
Oct 1, 20195 min read
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...

Archkeeper
Oct 1, 20191 min read
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