The Burning Taper

The other day in a comment to the article Rituals, Pop Stars and Conspiracy Theory , someone called Freeman a conspiracy poet. Today brings ...

I received an email from BlogCatalog , one of those blog-indexing websites The Burning Taper joined. The email said: Thousands of bloggers ...

I'm often amused and/or baffled and/or intrigued by conspiracy theorists. It must be a constant adrenaline rush to be continuously afrai...

Along with about 200 others, including many of the brethren's family members, I attended the 150th Anniversary get-together at my lodge ...

As you've probably noticed, I enjoy quotations by famous people, as well as quotes from readers, pro and con, that express your opinions...

I've just returned from a very enjoyable trip to Hartford, Connecticut. Though the trip was for business purposes, as the Gods and Godde...

In the past several years, legislation against "hate crimes" has been instituted across the country. Exactly what is a hate crime?...

We're only a month away from the 700th anniversary of the Pope's roundup of the Knights Templar, the event that supposedly gave us t...

The Burning Taper welcomes guest editorials, essays and papers from Masons and non-Masons. If you have a paper or editorial you'd like t...

Thanks for the interaction on yesterday's article on the 2007 First Amendment survey. I got a good chuckle out of an anonymous poster...

If belief creates reality, it's no wonder we're living in a Bizarro World. The First Amendment Center just released its 2007 survey ...

Brother Tubalcain of the blog Tubalcain420 recently posted the following essay from Bro. Albert Pike's Esoterika which discusses the C...

The non-Mason blogger at The Contrarian and his wife stopped by the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia over the wee...

The blog Lost in France reports that at the recent annual meeting of the Grand Orient of France, "sixty percent of the 1,200 delegates...

It's been an extremely hot and dry summer here in Georgia, as it has elsewhere around the country. I've noticed several of the local...

Georgia. Alabama. Arkansas. Arizona. Connecticut. England. The Philippines. There's another crack in the cement of brotherly love. This ...