Make your own 'pop-up' lodge trestleboard

Here's a cool idea, and a project you might want to work on, alone or with your lodge brothers. W. Bro. Guy Spivey of North Carolina...

Masonic Senator Trent Lott under the microscope

Scottish Rite poster boy W. Bro. and U.S. Senator Trent Lott, 33°, KCCH, Grand Cross , is making news this week. On Monday, he announced he ...

Freemasonry IS a religion!

Most every state's grand lodge publishes literature that says something to the effect of "Freemasonry is not a religion...." O...

Scottish Rite race car finishes 9th in ARCA 150

As I wrote on July 29 , the Scottish Rite website proudly boasted (and still does) that Blake Feese would be driving SR-sponsored car #95 i...

Gentlemen, start your engines: Scottish Rite goes back to the NASCAR track

Scottish Rite's NASCAR fascination continues. Beginning August 11, you can watch the SR's new #95 car, driven by Blake Feese, go ro...

'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...

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...

Attorneys duke it out in Shrine vs. Scottish Rite real estate squabble

Follow the money, if you can. The Arabia Shrine Temple in Houston, Texas, gave an 80-year land lease to the Scottish Rite Benevolent Associa...

Frank Cicci Racing going out of business

I'm going to withhold posting any personal comments or opinions here. I don't know all the details, and posting my opinions on how a...

Smithsonian Magazine gives us same ol' same ol' in article on Scottish Rite's House of the Temple

The Smithsonian Magazine has published a piece on the Scottish Rite's House of the Temple in Washington, D.C. As you might guess, they ...

April is Grand Lodge of Georgia month at the George Washington Masonic Memorial

While looking around the George Washington Masonic Memorial website researching the previous story about the filming of the National Treasur...

Wacko website proves Masonic worldwide conspiracy: Smirnoff logo looks like Scottish Rite emblem!

I usually ignore the anti-Masonic wacko websites; I seldom find anything new or creative. Today, though, I found a site that ties all those ...

'Building the Temple of Liberty: Freemasonry and the Founding of America' lecture April 1

On Sunday, April 1 at 2 p.m., in a lecture titled "Building the Temple of Liberty: Freemasonry and the Founding of America," Dr. ...

Are celebrity Freemasons a public relations risk?

Unless you've read the Scottish Rite's "Strategic Plan," you may not realize that the use of "celebrities" who ...

NASCAR driver Bro. Brian Conz has new sponsorship, his website indicates

Bro. Brian Conz, the NASCAR driver, has put his website BrianConz.com back online. The site shows car #18 (pictured), and lists as his spon...

Making Masons look stupid?

Last week someone on the Scottish Rite forum posted a link to the latest NASCAR Scottish Rite story here on the BT . Another brother respo...

Shriners and Scottish Rite as Masonic lobbyists

Masonic Lobbyists by Tim Bryce, PM, MPS "It is no secret that participation in the Masonic fraternity has been dropping for at least 5...

Scottish Rite Supreme Council issues "offical statment" about their NASCAR "affiliation arrangement" with BC Motorsports

A new thread started last night at the official Scottish Rite site's forum linking to Burning Taper 's article from yesterday titled...

NASCAR-Scottish Rite deal a wreck; Frank Cicci accuses Brian Conz and Scottish Rite of breach of contract

Well, that didn't take long.... Frank Cicci, of Frank Cicci Racing, alleges that driver Brian Conz and the Scottish Rite have defaulted ...

Where was the Scottish Rite's car yesterday in the Stater Bros. 300?

I readily admit to not being a NASCAR fan. I've only been following it the last few weeks to see what is going on with the Scottish Rite...