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W. Bro. Elliot Burns, who runs the American Mason website, recently posted this letter from a new Mason , along with his response to the let...

Did you know that the Rotary Club was originally purely intended to be a social club, and that some early Rotary Clubs (in the 1910s-20s) re...

Ever wonder what the backside of a Smiley Face looks like? Click here to find out. Thanks to Cindy Broeker for the smiles. Smile | Smiley ...

Reprinted from New Dawn magazine Many New Dawn readers will know of British writer Christopher Knight from his first book The Hiram Key , w...

To celebrate the 225th Anniversary of the Grand Lodge of New York, this Masonic Compact was created. I like it. I wish these sentiments and ...

The Old Tiler is a character in a series of short vignettes by Bro. Carl H. Claudy, written between 1921 and the late 1940s. The story usual...

Investigative reporter Sandy Frost has recently published parts 4, 5 and 6 of her investigation into the Shriners' questionable financia...

According to Bro. Simpson at The Modern Freemasonic Journal , the Grand Lodge of Georgia has pressured the Georgia Order of the Eastern Star...

Rodney Hoffman submitted this to Boing Boing recently: In the early 1950s, several above-ground atom bomb tests at the Nevada Proving Groun...

The following short piece was originally published in W. Bro. Harry Bruno's Sunday Masonic Newsletter , and then reprinted in the Masoni...

Among other requirements, people who apply for American citizenship must pass a test about U.S. history and the American constitutional syst...

The movie A Scanner Darkly opens on July 7, and to celebrate, GrouchoGandhi wants to show you his Dick. A Scanner Darkly is not the first...

In September, 2005 I was refused re-entry into a Masonic meeting (though I was an officer) while an “acting” Worshipful Master led a discuss...

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W. Bro. Tim Bryce's recent article Masonic Membership: Quantity vs. Quality , was published on many sites and generated more comments th...

In a parallel universe, seven-year-old Myles Rees will grow up to be an accomplished British Shakespearean stage actor, then move to New Yor...

Reprinted from Born Jesus . Is Superman a Christ figure? Well, duh! An Associated Press story today asks that question. Director Bryan Sing...

A convenience store has installed Florida's first bioemetric payment system. Just stick in your finger to pay. No cards, no PINS. It...

Today is the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere. The summer solstice is an astronomical term regarding the position of the sun i...

The magazine U.S. News and World Report presented an interesting article last September called "Inside the Masons." The article ...

Grand Lodge vs. Blue Lodge: Who Serves Who? by W:.Tim Bryce, PM, MPS Masons have been meeting upon the level and parting on the square well ...