The Burning Taper

Once again Brother Greg at Masonic Traveler has provided a great Masonic article . This time it's a biographical piece on Brother Manly ...

Brother Greg over at Masonic Traveler blog wrote recently of a Masonic statue atop what is now a bank building. He touched on how our herit...

The following rant was found on Freemasonrywatch.org , a rather pitiful attempt by a fundamentalist Christian to besmirch Freemasonry. Its ...

Unless you're a Mason or a Biblical scholar, or are still mind-boggled at the over-literalness of Josh the Baptist, our Kentucky ministe...

You've heard the story, I'm sure. A priest named Valentine secretly continued to marry young lovers after the Roman Emperor Claudius...

Was Mary a Virgin? Did she stay one? Was Mary the Mother also Mary Magdalene also Mary the sister of Lazarus? Did any of those Marys actuall...

Many thanks to the folks at about.com. On their AltReligion page they recently linked to the Burning Taper with one very nice word: "F...

A most enlightening article on Prince Hall Freemasonry appears today on Brother Greg Stewart's Masonic Traveler blog . Prince Hall was ...

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I found a very interesting blog called Babylon Daily, written by a man calling himself LKN4TRUTH. His profile tells that he was raised as a ...

The Spirit of Intellectual Freemasonry lives in Canada, if Bro. R. J. Hayes's blog Areopagiticus is any indication. Two of his recent b...

Last year Scottish composer Stuart Mitchell discovered musical codes embodied in the 213 stones in the ceiling of the Midlothian chapel at R...

On April 12, 2005, in my role as Director of Masonic Education for my lodge, I presented to my Blue Lodge the following talk I wrote, called...

When we began this blog a few months ago, I never dreamed there would be so much talk of religion and Jesus here, begat by the Baptist attac...

The past couple of weeks a "discussion," if you can call it that, has bounced between this site and the blog of a fundamentalist ...

In a comment about the previous post titled "Believe," someone joked that Superman was a Freemason. I'm not sure about that, ...

"Believe. Simply believe," says Chip, trying hard to convert those he believes to be heathen to the Southern Baptist doctrine. As ...