2018 Quatuor Coronati Conference
2018 Quatuor Coronati Conference at GW Memorial 8/14-16/2018 Call For Papers
American Freemasonry
2016 Masonic Restoration Foundation Symposium in Asheville, NC 8/19-21
The 7th annual Masonic Restoration Foundation Symposium has been announced, and will take place from August 19-21, 2016 at the Asheville Masonic Temple in Asheville, North Carolina. Meetings will be held in both the Lodge Room and the Theatre. Since 2001, the Masonic Restoration Foundation (MRF) has been examining the issues facing North American Freemasonry, identifying successful both … Read more
Masonic Traveling Men
By Guest Contributor: Bro. Byron J. Collier Over the last weekend in September my Lodge road tripped to Washington, D.C. While there, we toured the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Alexandria, VA, which is a pilgrimage I believe every Mason should make at least once in his lifetime. We also visited Lodge Sojourner Kilwinning #1798 … Read more
Fraternalism–The Lost Word in Charity
BY: ROBERT G. DAVIS, 33*, GRAND CROSS Any study of the beginnings of Freemasonry will clearly show that fraternalism was the first and most distinguishing characteristic of Masons and Masonry. We are, above everything else, our own brother’s keeper. This has been the raison d’ etre which distinguishes us from all other groups. Masonic charity, in … Read more
The Future of Masonic Ritual – What really distinguished Freemasonry from any other sort of fraternal association
It is some years ago that Rev Neville Barker Cryer went on record in establishing that what really distinguished Freemasonry from any other sort of fraternal association was the centrality of masonic ritual in its activities. To that conviction he holds as firmly as ever. Indeed in this paper he asserts, in what was almost … Read more