MASONIC DICTIONARY ONLINE WBro. Stephen Dafoe , Masonic and Templar author and publisher, has collected together 26 new essays on progressiv...

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST DAY Greg Stewart, the "Masonic Traveler," has a terrific article about Saint John the Baptist Day, June 24th,...

IN DEFENSE OF MAGISTERIAL LANGUAGE The Catholic Church is having a lengthy wrangle over the wording of the mass - their ritual, if you will...

MUNCIE MASONIC CENTER REVISITED After visiting with Wbro. Tim Brinkmeyer and the brethren of Delaware Lodge in Muncie, I put together a webs...

THE MOTHER OF ALL EA DEGREES! Last night the brethren of Major General John A. Logan Lodge #575 initiated a new brother in one of the most ...

BROTHER SAM HORNISH JR. WINS INDY 500 Brother Sam Hornish Jr won the 2006 Indy 500 today by 6/100ths of a second!

I had the honor of speaking to a small gathering last night of Delaware Lodge in Muncie, Indiana. The event was to honor their 50 year membe...

LODGE VITRUVIAN A small but enthusiastic group was on hand to pass our lodge's Entered Apprentice to the Fellow Craft degree tonight. My...

GRAND LODGE IS DEAD! LONG LIVE GRAND LODGE! The Grand Lodge Annual Communication for 2006 has ended after two days, in a session that was mo...

INDIANAPOLIS MASTER'S AND WARDENS and a LESSON IN FREEDOM I had the honor of addressing the Actual Masters & Wardens Association of ...

THANKS TO MY PENNSYLVANIA BRETHREN Thanks to the Pennsylvania Freemason Magazine for the nice review of the book , along with a shot of my v...

DOCTOR MOM My parents are very talented, special people, from whom I have inherited only a fraction of their abilities. My mother is a uniqu...

Tennessee Masons I am in Knoxville, Tennessee this week shooting commercials, and had a last minute chance to visit South Knoxville Lodge #7...

Grand Historian of Connecticut Thanks to Gary A. Littlefield, R.W. Grand Historian of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut for the nice mention of...

Philippe Benhamou and my cherubic self in Paris Alice and I flew Franceward this week for research on a new book, and to meet with with Fren...

Dummies In Minnesota I continue to be be astonished and humbled at the incredible reception Freemasons For Dummies has received. This past...

The French edition of Freemasons For Dummies , entitles La Franc-Maconnerie Pour Les Nuls has been available now for just over four weeks. ...

A New Master Mason I had the honor Saturday of attending a special Master Mason degree. What made it a little extra special was that the new...

I had a great day in lodge on Saturday. Do we say that often enough? I had a great day in lodge on Saturday. My mother lodge, Broad Ripple #...

LibraryThing Book Cataloguing Service Wow, did I stumble into an incredible library cataloguing service. It's called LibraryThing - have...

I've been speaking with Ralph Herbold at the Southern California Research Lodge , and he tells me they've sold over a thousand copie...

Great. Now I'm Causing Nightamres Apparently the book is giving AllisonM nightmares.

I reject the notion that Freemasonry is dying, and here is why. If you look at each major turning point in Freemasonry's development, yo...

I was asked a few weeks ago about coming to speak about Freemasons For Dummies in a little eastern Pennsylvania mining town called Pottsvil...

Words cannot describe how flabbergasted I was last Wednesday when DGM Barkdull called and asked if I was going to be at Founder's Day an...

My first speaking engagement on the Freemasons For Dummies tour - Valley Lodge No. 459 in, appropriately enough, Masontown, Pennsylvania o...