The following outlook of Freemasonry was shared with me with much trepidation and concern over its reaction. Permission to publish it was granted if the author could remain Anonymous. I’ve heard these same words from others in recent months, and it struck me that they were not isolated or merely dissident voices in the wilderness […]
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The Perfect Handshake
From NPR’s Marketplace News – Researchers from the University of Manchester have distilled the components of a perfect handshake down to a science, literally, and it looks like: PH = √(e2 + ve2)(d2) + (cg + dr)2 + p{(4< s >2)(4< p >2)}2 + (vi + t + te)2 + {(4< c >2 )(4< du […]
Continue readingSo What? The Dynamic of Masonic Membership.
The following was originally published in 2007. It is one of several essays in the book Masonic Traveler, where you can find a more refined and extended version of this missive. Since this original publication in 2007, the dialog increased only to taper off again to a quiet whisper, if heard anywhere at all. In […]
Continue readingRick Ross’s Free Mason = Fraternal Shark Jump?
The new song from Rick Ross featuring Jay-Z off the Teflon Don Album. I’ll let the song and lyrics speak for themselves. Free Mason. I get that Free masonry is deep in the pocket of material culture, and that it has a variety of meanings all around, but rapper Rick Ross has adapted Freemasonry’s other […]
Continue readingBundled off with Freemasons-Athiests & Masons to Summit in Brussels
From the EU Observer: Brussels is to hold an EU summit with atheists and Freemasons in the autumn, inviting them to a political dialogue parallel to the annual summit the bloc holds with Europe’s religious leaders. It seems that in the push to make religious and non religious policy balance, following a meeting of Catholic, […]
Continue readingThe Re-dedication of the Structure with Soul and Stability
History, then and now, in the making, and your chance to help make it a reality for the Canton Viaduct Masonic Memorial. From the Milestone Public Flyer. Background: The Canton Viaduct is the longest and oldest stone viaduct in the Western Hemisphere. The foundation stone was laid in 1834, and it was completed in 1835 by […]
Continue readingMasons give $100,000 to UCO Foundation
More in the news on the re-emirgance of Masonry and academia: “The University of Central Oklahoma Foundation received a $100,000 gift July 14 from The Masonic Fraternity of Oklahoma. The gift will establish the Masonic Endowment for Transformative Learning, which will support a project that fosters transformative learning experiences for Central students, helping them become […]
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Masonic Education vs. Practicing Freemasonry
I’ve been in recent mental debate over the place of Freemasonry in academia (more here) and the practice of Freemasonry in the real world. More specifically, how Masonry is perceived in the academic sphere in a past and present light, vs. the contemporary practice of Freemasonry itself, what the fraternity is doing as a whole […]
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Meet Red Mitchell of The MWPHGL of Massachusetts
Brother Red Mitchell of Norton Massachusetts was a prime mover on the committee to erect the monument to Prince Hall on the Cambridge common. His hard work and perseverance to see the project completed was noticed by the Sun Chronicle who wrote this article titled, “Rediscovering A Hero”, about him and that auspicious occasion. Norton […]
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Rosewood Masonic Lodge Discovered
The events and depiction of the 1997 film Rosewood are cinematic but unlike most of what Hollywood produces, the events that fateful town actually happened. Recently, the remains of the historic Rosewood Masonic lodge has been discovered amidst items during exploratory dig at site of 1923 massacre. Marvin Dunn, a retired Florida International University professor […]
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