Recent content by My Freemasonry

by Christopher Hodapp The following urgent disaster appeal was sent out today by Mark Tabbert, Administrator of the Masonic Service Association of North America: The 1873 Grand Lodge building in Caracas, Venezuela before the earthquake Main temple in the Grand Lodge...

by Christopher Hodapp I'll be speaking this Saturday, July 18th at Ohio's 6th Masonic District's Pillars of Knowledge event. This Masonic educational gathering will be held at J.B. Covert Lodge No. 437 on the east side of Cincinnati, Ohio, between 8AM and 3PM. Six speakers will be featured...

by Christopher Hodapp A 72-year old man has been arrested for setting fire to a Shrine Center in Altoona, Pennsylvania, causing well over $130,000 in damages. This site is sadly becoming a repository for stories of vandalism against the fraternity. James Kaufman, 72 According to...

by Christopher Hodapp The male-only Grand Lodge of Scotland has joined with the United Grand Lodge of England and England's female Freemasons in a cooperative organization to address urgent contemporary issues facing the fraternity at large. The Council of Freemasonry was established in 2024...

by Christopher Hodapp Authorities in Burlington, Ontario are seeking information regarding an unknown tagger who vandalized the local Masonic hall Sunday early morning by spray painting a phony Albert Pike 'Luciferian' quotation on the side of the building. From the BurlingtonToday.com...

by Christopher Hodapp Julio Diaz, currently awaiting trial in the murder of a Freemason outside of a Texas Masonic hall, along with prior incidents of damaging that same lodge building, has just been charged in two more arson attacks against a different lodge. Diaz is accused of shooting WB...

by Christopher Hodapp The trustees and management of the massive Detroit Masonic Temple have evicted the Detroit Masonic Temple Library from the building. The 10,000-volume library has been in the building since it was opened a hundred years ago, and in recent years they have also organized...

by Christopher Hodapp I'm honored to be speaking at the Festive Board of Kentucky's famed Abraham Lodge No. 8 this Saturday evening, June 27th at the historic Brown Hotel in downtown Louisville. I'll be wrapping up an afternoon program of several events. For information, contact...

by Christopher Hodapp The Supreme Council of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction, the "Mother Supreme Council of the World," was established in Charleston, South Carolina on May 31st of 1801 at Shepheard's Tavern on the corner of Broad and Church Streets (which had also...

by Christopher Hodapp On Wednesday, my friend, MW John A. Bridegroom, was installed as the 175th Grand Master of the Grand Lodge F&AM of Indiana. The annoying (and frequently blasphemous) practice of using Biblical quotes out of context goes back two millennia, but I'll engage in it this...

by Christopher Hodapp Individual Grand Lodges, the Scottish Rite Northern Jurisdiction, Shriners International and other Masonic organizations have been spending money and research and efforts to craft advertising campaigns for use by lodges for many years now. But all the advertising in the...

by Christopher Hodapp For those interested, the always informative (and lively) French-language Masonic news site Hiram.be (actually based in Belgium) has a recent article with current membership statistics from the eight largest Masonic obediences in France. (See the pie chart above.) The...

by Christopher Hodapp Mark your calendars for this June 20th! The America250 celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence is coming to Indiana! Join the Grand Lodge F&AM of Indiana for a memorable Founding Father's Day weekend celebration as we honor...

by Christopher Hodapp The incredible Dayton Masonic Center is celebrating its 100 year anniversary. To commemorate the event, the Grand Lodge of Ohio will be performing a Cornerstone Ceremony this coming Sunday May 17, 2026 at 2PM. This will be the 100th anniversary of the dedication of its...

by Christopher Hodapp An article in yesterday's London Standard features a lineup of several young GenZ English Freemasons in an apparent demonstration that Masons are far from the sinister, altogether spooky, mysterious and ooky image the press has tried to cultivate around us for the last...