When I first started expressing myself in Freemasonry the medium that I used was the one which all the great old Masters of Masonic scholarship used – the word, the printed word. So I wrote many words, words of explaining, of informing, of changing, of reform – so many words. Isn’t that what every Masonic […]
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Social Media & the Non-Profit – How Social Media is vital to fraternities
A few weeks back we explored the ideas of Social Media as it intersected with Secret Societies, creating the shift from restricted knowledge to an open communication in the 21st century -ciphers replaced with pixels and WYSIWYG editors. Today, Social Media has surpassed the expectations of those who declared it a passing trend and it […]
Continue readingOrganizations lose their relevance when the rate of internal change lags the pace of external change.
Business Writer Gary Hamel of the Wall Street Journal is a bit of an outsider when it comes to religion. His background is much more wall street than the pulpit. I have no doubt that in his life he has had some experience in regards to faith, but, based on his writing credentials, Hamel is […]
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The Evolution of God
Before reading this article, I would like to make one more plea asking you to fill out my York Rite Survey. The results of this survey will be used to help me develop a program to help the York Rite in my jurisdiction and hopefully the benefits will extend beyond my state. Anyone can fill […]
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100 Master Masons Night
Dunedin Lodge No. 192 F.& A.M. is a Masonic craft lodge located in Dunedin, Florida, a town in the Tampa Bay area with a strong Scottish heritage. Currently we have about 200 members of which approximately thirty attend a stated or called communications; forty on a good night. Having been Secretary of the Lodge, I noticed that attendance […]
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Georgia speaks. Grand Master Jennings on the Georgia Affair.
I’ll save my thoughts for the end… The Grand Lodge of Georgia of Free and Accepted MasonsJ. Edward Jennings Jr. – Grand Master August 19,2009 EDICT No. 2009-1 TO ALL CONSTITUTENT LODGES UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE GRANDLODGE OF GEORGIA, FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS: WHEREAS: Freemasonry has existed in Georgia since it founding in 1734 […]
Continue readingMasonic symbolism is skate punk cool.
You never know who you might meet when your out and about. One of the cool factors of Freemasonry is that pretty much anyone you meet who has the square and compass somewhere on their person is a person you can trust and that that you have an undercurrent of social commonality with one another. […]
Continue readingFreemasonry in Material Culture – the Freemason DJ Remixers
This originally appeared in July of 2006 on the Masonic Traveler blog. The interview was relevent then, but more so today as both the footprint of the fraternity and the DJ’s of the same name have grown in those three years. Their website has changed, but you can now find them on MySpace, and their […]
Continue readingThe return of Masonic Central and the “Masonic Baptism”!
After a long summer hiatus, Masonic Central is back and to recommit ourselves to our second year, this weeks show is highly appropriate. Coming on the program is Brother Cliff Porter to talk with us about his new book “Masonic Baptism – A Post Modern Ritual for an Ancient Craft“. For some background, Mackey says […]
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The Fall of Solomon
King Solomon of Israel is referred to in Masonic tradition as being the fraternity’s first Most Excellent Grand Master. He is championed as the man who constructed the magnificent temple for Jehovah and is heralded as the personification of wisdom. However, a closer look at the life of King Solomon shows that he wasn’t always worthy […]
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