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Brother Emmanuel Dumigron from Mount Hermon Lodge No. 118 in Asheville, North Carolina recently completed this impressive hand-painted in wa...

Our friend Jennifer Emick is no longer affiliated with About.com . Her exquisite collection of symbols is now hosted at SymbolDictionary.net...

I once wrote that the flame of The Burning Taper may flicker and burn less bright for a while, but that it would never be extinguished. And...

Religious people continue to amuse me and sometimes baffle me. Whether it's the Pope being asked to resign over lifting the excommunicat...

In our never-ending quest to bring you news of anything even remotely related to monkeys, The Burning Taper invites you to participate in C...

After hearing about several brothers and friends being laid off their jobs or fearing potential layoffs, and especially after reading the sa...

The Burning Taper has long been fascinated by monkeys, and has written many times about them. I believe it was the late Robert Anton Wilso...

Michael Hoffman's article began reasonably enough, by quoting the New York Times . His story was a look into last week's Great Flub...

I wish for all my brothers and sisters, Masonic and otherwise, a New Year filled with all the best. May all your visions, goals and dreams c...

For the past week or so, there's been a hitch in the giddy-up over in the Masonic Corral. It looked like newer comments weren't bein...

Some anonymous someone said, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Bro. Rudyard Kipling wrote, ...

Last week the "white Masons" and the "black Masons" in North Carolina stopped pretending each other didn't exist, an...

It's Thanksgiving Day, 2008. Our nation, our world, our economy, our politics, our brotherhood, and perhaps even your own life, are in d...

That old maxim taught in Quantum Mechanics 101, the one about how the experimenter always affects the experiment, holds true in the Macro Wo...

I came across some advice originally printed in the London Times , advice that all of us might well follow, but more especially, those of u...

This is the ninth in our series of essays from guest bloggers on the topic "Masonic harmony, unity and discord." This one is by Br...

There's a drive-in theater just up the highway about 15 miles from me. It's one of a small handful left in Georgia, and the only one...

Tin-foil hats probably won't be much protection, but you might want to consider sleeping in a hard hat, after a six-pound chunk of ...

This week I've been working with a 26-year old, college-educated, happily married black man in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He's not a Ma...

If you're feeling stressed these days over the world's financial, moral and intellectual meltdown, you're not alone. As Bro. Pau...

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Maybe it's baby Kal-El streaking to earth from the doomed planet Krypton. Astronomers yesterday discovered an automobile-sized meteor h...

Welcome to the New World (Dis)Order, and to the United Socialist States of America. Or is it still the same ol' place? Just moments ago,...

This is the eighth in our series of essays from guest bloggers on the topic "Masonic harmony, unity and discord." This one is by B...