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I’ve been a Freemason for only about four years, but I’ve already done a lot of changing in my views. One view I used to have, which I think most first years have is that Freemasonry and Christianity are totally compatible. Oh the many internet arguments we enter, arguing “no, we don’t have a...

Someone raised an interesting question today. He asked if there was a particular number of members a lodge had to drop to, at which point the lodge starts a tailspin to failure, with almost no hope of return. That’s a tough question, and I don’t know if there’s so tidy of an answer to it. It’s...

The Art of Manliness is a website close the the heart of many Freemasons. For those who have never been there, it’s a guide that explores the lost traits and skills of being a man, and how we can get those aspects back into our live. I highly recommend How to Feel Like a Man, the first video of...

I would never consider myself a masonic blogger, like some of the guys out there. I’ve had a surprising amount of recent success blogging for my lodge’s site, and even had a post go viral, or at least as viral as you can get in online freemasonry. I think I’ll keep it up and try to do a good...

I wanted to quickly expound on something I wrote in my last post, where I said that I didn’t think I had very much to say. This is actually a bit of a theme with me. I never really think I have much to say on a subject, until someone asks me a question, and which point I’ll talk about it...

It’s Masonic Meme Monday on the /r/freemasonry Reddit, and though the conversations about this have passed, the sheer number of downvotes a meme gets within minutes of being posted indicates that the idea of Freemasonry being mocked in any way is still a controversial subject. It mainly comes...

I had a little cocktail party last night. I was excited because I was putting on my mixology suspenders and after a good amount of searching, found all the ingredients to make a Corn ‘n’ Oil. I, uh…. Let’s just say a lot of mistakes were made that night, and though I can’t intellectually blame...

2B1ASK1 If you’re a Mason, or have been exploring Masonry at all, you’ve seen this terrible, bumper sticker slogan that is fixing all our membership problems. Yeah, I’m a bit bitter about it, because this gem from the reject-pile of Tuesday edition cryptoquips is, purely in an artistic sense...

From today on NPR: The members of the Queen Anne Masonic Lodge near downtown Seattle are on the young side. The guy in charge is 26.Danny Done, the lodge's worshipful master, is lounging on his designated chair in the room reserved for private ceremonies.His title comes with a top hat, though...

From WVUE Channel 8 in New Orleans, by Dave McNamara: Symbols are an important part of the fraternity of Masons. They adorn Masonic lodges, and members wear the emblems or jewels. The Masonic lodge in Greensburg dates back to the early 1850s. During the Civil War, Union troops took over the...

From today's Toledo (Ohio) Blaze: A local man was sentenced Tuesday to four months at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio for trying to set fire to the Toledo Masonic Complex, which will be followed by six months at the Correctional Treatment Facility in Toledo.Nathan Wietrzykowski, 25, of...

Howddy, Jason! The car debate continues, with no experiments on the horizon Everyone hates Jason Our roof is leaking . . . Landscaper Josh? The Candidate on the run Al Sweargen Uniquely Christian O.E.S. chapter ceremonies The Most Worshipful Amy Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, Freewomen Masons...

Today marks the first day of my last semester as an Undergraduate student at Boise State University. This semester will be a heavy course load as I'm taking 5-courses, or 16-credits, with 4 of those classes being upper division classes: 3 History and 1 Political Science. Fight Broncos...

Century City, California joins Washington DC, Baghdad, Iraq, Sandusky, Ohio, Rome, Brussels and Paris in having a square and compasses in the street map - this time with an all seeing eye. Amazing the things you can spot from space. Continue reading...

Another "chair degree," within the York Rite system, available for present and past Eminent Commanders is the Knight Crusader of the Cross. The other one is the Order of Knights Preceptor. This order is not used everywhere, but is still growing. The body is referred to as "Asylum" and is...

Apparently, ISIS is now accusing "Crusader Obama, Slave of Washington" of aiding the Freemasons. See here. Continue reading...

Sir Knight John Helcl, II The original Order of the Templars met their demise by the suppression, a foul action by outside forces beyond their control. Sir Knights, are we are under the looming shadow of a modern suppression of our order, a suppression that is not from some nefarious source...

The Illustrious Order of the Red Cross is the first in the line of succession of Orders of Knighthood conferred by a Commandery of Knights Templar. When this order is conferred, a Commandery of Knights Templar opens a Council of the Illustrious Order of the Red Cross which is composed of the...

Freemasons can be referred to as traveling men, and when we travel the common direction we travel as we all know is east. This time I decided rather than travel to the east as I have done on many occasions to speak, lecture, or in my studies to figuratively travel to the east, I received a kind...

The event is getting closer and there are still some tickets left, I do foresee this selling out! The event is in New Wilmington, PA September 20th 2014. We not only have four great speakers we will also have the hosts of the Masonic YouTube show “The Masonic Roundtable” doing some taping for...