The Burning Taper

One of the regular Taper readers occasionally sends me links to news articles about the good that Masons have done in the world. Recently h...

Our story so far: This past Saturday I endorsed a candidate for president of the U.S. on The Burning Taper . Immediately, Theron Dunn objec...

Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of you know who I am. I've emailed back and forth with many of you using the gmail account that bears my name....

Verily, it is written, that I am a bad Mason for having endorsed a political candidate here on The Burning Taper . "There are even som...

Bro. Theron Dunn, Masonic pontificator extraordinaire , has graced this blog twice thrice already voicing disapproval of my recent endorse...

Today's political news brings us the woman whose husband didn't inhale reefer smoke apologizing to her opponent for making reference...

The following is a guest editorial by Bro. Dylan, a Freemason in Canada. What we are seeing is change happening, change within Freemasonry. ...

The Philalathes Society, a Masonic organization dedicated to research and dissemination of Masonic information, has invited recently expelle...

The square and compasses lies in pieces, smashed to the ground while being removed from the Masonic temple building in Elgin, Illinois, now ...

Update, Tuesday, Dec. 11: Bro. Diogenes continues to update the story he tells here, providing names of those affected by the tyrannical a...

As above, so below. Or at least, as in the Church, so in Freemasonry. Volunteer organizations based on metaphysical belief systems have a lo...

Who Made Who? by Bro. Jeff Peace When was your lodge charted by the Grand Lodge of your jurisdiction? It may have been relatively recently o...

December 8, 1980: Former Beatle John Lennon has been shot dead by an unknown gunman who opened fire outside the musician's New York apar...

Repulsion, revision, revolution and reformation by Diogenes Much of the behavior exhibited these days in Masonic forums can only be describe...

There's battle lines being drawn, And nobody's right if everybody's wrong. Young people speaking their minds, And getting so muc...

Last night W. Bro. Richard Graeter published to the Internet his impressive Masonic paper titled Reform Freemasonry! A Vision for the Future...