
Enjoy the Silence, by Depeche Mode [Annotated Readings]
Words are very, unnecessary/They can only do harm.
Ships of Hagoth is a digital-first literary magazine featuring creative nonfiction and theoretical essays by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Where other LDS-centric publications often look inward at the LDS tradition, we seek literary works that look outward through the curious, charitable lens of faith.
Ships of Hagoth is pleased to announce its first book-length message in a bottle, AND ALL ETERNITY SHOOK, by
Jacob Bender, released April 2022.
Jacob L. Bender is also the author of Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), a work similarly rooted in his Puerto Rican mission service and his mother's passing. In LDS studies, he has previously written for Dialogue, Sunstone, Peculiar Pages, Ships of Hagoth, the Eugene England Foundation, and The Association of Mormon Letters.
Enraged, he wrestles with his God in passionate prayer as he pleads for her life; images and memories of his mission and his Mom jump, cut, and splice together in a cinematic crescendo, flashing furiously before his eyes as though he were the one dying and not her; all as he feels after some miracle, some impossibility, and the peace which surpasses understanding.
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A CALL FOR
We are hoping—for “one must needs hope”—for creative nonfiction, theoretical essays, and craft essays that seek radical new ways to explore and express theological ideas; that are, like Hagoth, “exceedingly curious.”
We favor creative nonfiction that can trace its lineage back to Michel de Montaigne. Whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic.
As for theoretical essays: we welcome work that playfully and charitably explores the wide world of arts & letters—especially works created from differing religious, non-religious, and even irreligious perspectives—through the peculiar lens of a Latter-day Saint.
We read and publish submissions as quickly as possible, and accept simultaneous submissions.

Words are very, unnecessary/They can only do harm.
The opposite of “the love of many shall wax cold” would indeed be “Hot Hot Heat”, come to think of it.

…because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

On the Holy Spirit and “pure intelligence” and the most influential slow-core act of all, at least among the TikTok generation.

All Valentines, it turns out, are bloody.
Incidentally connecting together the passions of both St. Valentine’s Day and Black History Month.

In honor of the Superbowl 60 halftime show.

I used to genuinely look up to Scott Adams.

Apropos of nada, we here at ShipsofHagoth are great lovers and supporters of the wonderful people of Minnesota!

A love song for the end of the world, in translation.
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