The Burning Taper

In the spirit of fairness and brotherhood, I'm reprinting below a recent email I received from TazMack, the publisher of Mirth Missives ...

I'm happy to see we've all used our "time out" in the Masonic Corral™ wisely, meditating on what it means to subdue our pa...

There's a new sheriff in town, boys. Picture me as a cross between Paul Newman and Walter Brennan, both of whom played Judge Roy Bean to...

In June, 1908 Annie Besant and Lady Lutyens, wife of the architect Sir Edwin, set up the first co-ed Masonic lodge. Though it was short-live...

When Bro. Hodapp told the world last week that the newly sworn-in governor of New York, David Paterson, was a Freemason, I was elated that ...

This Easter weekend marks another (the third, I believe) Blogswarm Against Theocracy . It was first brought to my attention last year by my ...

The fifth anniversary of the Fiasco in Iraq passed last week. This "Operation Freedom" once commanded above-the-fold headlines, an...

March 16-22, 2008 is designated Sunshine Week . It is an initiative that originated in 2002 with the American Society of Newspaper Editors. ...

A Florida man who suffered a heart attack inside a hospital has been brought back from the dead thanks to a cardiologist's prayers, acco...

The Masonic blog On the Level has published a short piece by Bro. Wachter of Merchantville Lodge No. 119, Pennsauken, NJ, titled "The ...

A Brotherhood without Boundaries by Bro. Jeff Peace I had the distinct honor and pleasure of sitting with the brothers of Lafayette Lodge No...

"The Parable of the Mouse" was submitted by a reader in response to the discussion about what non-West Virginia brethren should do...

Renowned author and physicist Sir Arthur C. Clarke has died at his home in Sri Lanka. He was 90. Although best known for his book and scree...

What follows is the text of the speech given by M.W. Bro. Frank Haas, expelled Past Grand Master of Masons in West Virginia, to the Philalat...