Print edition from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Interpreter-Journal-Mormon-Scripture-Volume/dp/1481211048 Online edition for free: http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/journal/volume-2-2012/   Read more

I’m writing this on the sixth month anniversary of the Coup–no other word will do–that expelled Dan Peterson as editor of the Mormon Studies Review and set the Maxwell Institute, for better or worse, on its current path. In those six months the Interpreter Foundation has been organized.  We have created a vibrant and active web page, have presented, without failure, an article a week on our web site, and produced two printed volumes of our journal, Interpreter: A Journal... Read more

I’ve started a new occasional blog on esoteric religion, mysticism, the occult, etc. http://forgottenlore.org/ It won’t be explicitly Mormon-oriented, though there will undoubtedly be a Mormon-subtext. Read more

7. The Host of Heaven Deuteronomy is explicit in its condemnation of worshipping the “host of heaven” (ṣebāʾ ha-šāmayim) who are equated with “the sun and the moon and the stars.” And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven (ṣebāʾ ha-šāmayim), and you be drawn away and worshipped (heštaḥǎwîtā) them and serve (ʿǎbadtām) them, things that YHWH your God has allotted to... Read more

John Gee has a blog with occasional astute observations. http://fornspollfira.blogspot.com/ Read more

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The magnificent thirteenth century mosaics of the great apse of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Wall in Rome. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamblinofjerusalem/sets/72157632136169116/detail/ Read more