By Karen Kidd Author of “Haunted Chambers: the Lives of Early Women Freemasons” Controversial American author Robert Temple observed “Technology is forbidden when it is not allowed to exist.” “It is easy to forbid technology to exist in the past because all you have to do is to deny it. Enforcing the ban then becomes […]
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Haunted Chambers, the lives of early women Freemasons.
Join Masonic Central this Sunday, June 28th at 6pm PDT / 9pm EDT as we meet and talk to Br. Karen Kidd, the author of the new book Haunted Chambers: The Lives of Early Women Freemasons. The topic of the program is a haughtily debated one, and certain not to be decided in the time […]
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Toxic to Democracy
I happened onto this story on my way home from the grocery store tonight. It was on the NPR program Fresh Air and was an interview with Chip Berlet who is the senior analyst at Political Research Associates, at PublicEye.org. The story was on a paper just released by PRA and Berlet on the damage […]
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What Will Be Your Legacy?
This article comes from RWB Dean Behrens, Senior Grand Warden for the Grand Lodge of South Dakota. The article originally appeared in the Grand Lodge of South Dakota’s publication The Masonic Messenger. You can visit the Grand Lodge’s website here. What will be your legacy? Is it too soon, or too late, for any one […]
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Are Illiterates Raising Illiterates?
by Br. John Nagy If you’re old to Masonic Education you know that, for the most part, “average formal Grand Lodge backed” Masonic Education programs exist today as: Memorizing Degree Catechism Learning Ritual and floor work Reviewing the Digest of Law and taking exams based on it Reading Pamphlets Perusing Degree Handbooks Following Officer Manuals […]
Continue readingHarm Timmerman, Composer of The Temple of Humanity
This Sunday, March 29th, we are jumping the pond again to welcome our special guest from the Netherlands composer and Producer Harm Timmerman from Free Stone Music, the creator of the Masonicly inspired CD “The Temple of Humanity“. Missed the live show? Listen to it Now! The CD is self-described as The “Music of Freemasonry” […]
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Table Talk: All Things Freemasonry
This episode was recorded on August 10th, 2008. In it, Greg and Dean host an open forum for a round table discussion on all things Freemasonry. Our usual cadre of hosts will be on as well as our special callers but in this episode, we invite the Masonic community to participate by calling in and […]
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