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Photo: WGAL-TV8 by Christopher Hodapp A pair of disturbing cases involving threats against Freemasons have surfaced in Pennsylvania and West Virginia — both within the space of just a few days of each other. In Pennsylvania, police say 37-year-old Joshua Albert Reisinger (photo) of...

by Christopher Hodapp The Fall 2026 Symposium of the Pennsylvania Academy of Masonic Knowledge will be held next Saturday, Oct. 24th, in the Freemasons Cultural Center at the Masonic Village at Elizabethtown. My friend and Brother Roger S. VanGorden, Past Grand Master of Indiana, will...

by Christopher Hodapp In the wake of Hurricane Isaias last week, the Masonic Service Association of North America has just issued an official disaster relief appeal on behalf of the Grand Lodge F&AM of Florida: The Masonic Service Association is usually the best and most effective way to...

by Christopher Hodapp According to a report Tuesday by Melody Simmons in the Baltimore Business Journal, the Grand Lodge of Maryland has just re-purchased its former downtown Baltimore headquarters, the spectacular 19th-century Masonic Temple at 225 North Charles Street, nearly 30 years after...

by Christopher Hodapp Tickets are still available for Saturday night's Centennial Gala of the Detroit Masonic Temple. But act fast! 100 years ago, the Masons of Detroit dreamed very big indeed, and constructed what remains today as the largest Masonic Temple building in the world, with over a...

by Christopher Hodapp Your mail wasn't delivered today because it is Columbus Day, the federal holiday commemorating Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas in 1492. In 1892, America's only Hoosier President, Benjamin Harrison, encouraged nationwide celebrations of the 400th...

by Christopher Hodapp Alice and I have packed up our canine miscreants and a couple of cases of books to head for the East Coast over the next couple of weeks in the Airstream. First up, this coming Thursday, October 1st, I'll be speaking at Sequin Level Lodge 140 in Newington, Connecticut...

by Christopher Hodapp Yesterday, after three years of investigations and courtroom proceedings, Julio Diaz was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Freemason Robert Wise, plus 50 years for each of two Masonic-lodge arsons, with the arson sentences running concurrently. WBro. Wise, 55...

by Christopher Hodapp If you you thought the Catholic Church and Freemasonry had finally stopped firing cannonballs at each other over the battlements, Europe has supplied a couple of reminders that this particular 300-year-old family quarrel isn't over. Not by a long shot. In August, Catholic...

by Christopher Hodapp I was supposed to be in Belo Horizonte, Brazil right about now, addressing the Conferência Brasileira de Estudos de Maçonaria (Brazilian Conference of Masonic Studies). But I'm not there, thanks to American Airlines. If you fly on American and haven't experienced its...

by Christopher Hodapp I realize this blog has been entirely too Indiana-centric in recent months, but nobody tells me anything anymore and I have to pick up news from the tough kids on the street. Still and all, we've had a lot going on here in the Hoosier state on the Masonic front, so I...

by Christopher Hodapp On Friday, September 11th, the Indianapolis Scottish Rite Cathedral will be the site of an extraordinary 9/11 Memorial service. All four of the Supreme Commanders of the Scottish Rite Supreme Councils of the United States will join together on the same stage with our...

by Christopher Hodapp Both the Indianapolis Scottish Rite Cathedral and the Indianapolis Masonic Temple/Freemasons Hall were vandalized this morning by a man wielding a hammer and intent on covering them with graffiti. As of this writing, Lynn Andrew Jackson, 26, was in police custody, charged...

by Christopher Hodapp A new title from the Masonic Book Club (MBC) is now available for pre-publication purchase. The Book M or, Masonry Triumphant, by William Smith, with an Introduction by Ill. Arturo de Hoyos, 33°. From the Masonic Book Club website: The recently-revived Masonic Book...

by Christopher Hodapp This weekend, we'll have a very special occasion in the far-flung northeastern suburbs of Indianapolis. The formation of a new Masonic-related local chapter of any kind is nowhere near as commonplace as it used to be, so it's a very big deal to announce the formation of...