Masonic references in cinema: Kubrick's 'Killer's Kiss' and Buneul's 'The Exterminating Angel'

If you haven't seen it, I suggest you take a tour of the excellent Masonic website of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon. Bro...

Award-winning 'Who's on First: The Movie' co-stars, co-directed and co-produced by sitting Worshipful Master

A few days ago in the article titled "The Mason's Nightmare," you met W. Bro. Steve Barr, the current Worshipful Master of No...

This blog is rated NC-17

I noticed on Bro. Don Tansey's blog Movable Jewel this morning, down at the bottom, a new widget gizmo saying "This blog is rated ...

Similarities and differences between U.S. and U.K. Freemasonry

Last week in response to Bro. Ben's article asking his readers what he should write about, I asked several general questions about what ...

Live like you're dying

Down at the bottom of this page, and every page on The Burning Taper , is a countdown timer set to December 21, 2012, the "Mayan end of...

The Mason's nightmare

W. Bro. Steve Barr of North Hollywood (Calif.) Lodge No. 542 penned this short story last week after his lodge conferred the Master Mason...

'A Radical in the East'

W. Bro. S. Brent Morris is the well-known Masonic author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Freemasonry and other books, the editor of th...

'They're just weather balloons'

What if there was a town called Bugsport, Maine? And what if most of the inhabitants were little grey aliens that the government had moved t...

Challenging lodge-specific traditions is a dangerous thing

When things go wrong for you, you often think you're the only one it's happened to. That's the way I felt when I first started t...

The summer of love, or hate?

Here comes the Sun, and here comes summer. June 21st marks the Summer Solstice — the first day of summer — in the northern hemisphere. Peopl...

The Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory

Finally, a Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory. Well, it ignores the JFK assassination, "all your base are belong to us," and AIDS, bu...

Audio podcast of 'A Tour of the Masonic Lodge'

I've been asked by a couple of readers to produce some of my Masonic lectures and articles as audio podcasts. I began that project last ...

Lady ghost haunts Ohio Masonic temple

Opulent, historic late 19th and early 20th century, and newer, Masonic temples and lodges large and small are being moved , sold off, fought...

Toledo, Ohio is angry Masons 'abandoning' city

Both the local Scottish Rite and the Shrine are planning to move their offices and facilities from Toledo, Ohio, to smaller quarters in outl...

Paranoid anti-Mason conspiracy nut shoots neighbor to death

A paranoid anti-Mason in Milwaukee, Wisconsin shot and killed his neighbor last week, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported . The victim,...

The Disney-Masonic connection

Type "disney+freemasonry" into Google or another search engine, and you'll find yourself dwarf-deep in anti-masonic conspiracy...

Creation Museum demands you choose God's Word or Man's Reason: 'Don't think... just listen and believe'

Ah, what a week! I'm just back from beautiful Myrtle Beach, South Carolina , where I spent time with family and friends hanging out at t...

Life is a beach

I've gone beach-bumming for a few days. If I'm not back in a week, I've probably been kidnapped by a sexy lady pirate , or bette...

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead

This just in. Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. And it's a good thing, too. Were Franco still alive, he'd be giving Free...

Welcome to the Future

It's an exciting time to be alive. Remember as a kid reading about cars that would glide along the highway without you having to steer, ...

'Darwin made me do it!': Fundamentalist Muslim blames terrorism, world's evils on Charles Darwin

Controversial Muslim author Adnan Oktar, also known by his pen-name Harun Yahya, held a press conference aboard a luxury yacht in the Black ...