Podcasts about Masonic lodge

If Joseph Warren had lived, Peter Oliver said, no one would have heard of Washington.  This might be an exaggeration, but few patriot leaders were as important to the cause as Joseph Warren—Roxbury physician, chair of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, chair of the Committee of Safety, Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge—he did not seek office, but his compatriots recognized his talents and put him to work.  His death at the Battle of Bunker Hill, at the age of 34, deprived the cause of one of its greatest leaders.  And today he is almost forgotten.  Janet Uhlar tells his story in her biography, Liberty's Martyr, and she shares more on Warren and his brief but extraordinary life with us. Tell us what you think! Send us a text message!

Join us this week as we read a piece from the New Age Magazine--that's quite "New Age" in thought! Then we'll dive into the secrets of music! Uncover the four secrets and how they relate to the Masonic Lodge and how it functions! All this and more. Thanks for listening and have a fantastic week! Links: Secrets of Music https://www.universalfreemasonry.org/en/article/freemasonry-and-the-secrets-of-masonry Masonic Con Kansas https://masonicconkansas.com/tickets/ https://masonicconsouth.com Masonic Con South Y'all! https://www.h25smes.org Hillsborough Masonic Con! https://masoniccon.com/#schedule SPML Masonic Con Skull and Crown Ltd. www.skullandcrownltd.com Craftsman+ FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/craftsmanplus/ WCY Podcast YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/WhenceCameYou Ancient Modern Initiation: Special Edition http://www.wcypodcast.com/the-Shop The Master's Word- A Short Treatise on the Word, the Light, and the Self - Autographed https://wcypodcast.com/the-shop Get the new book! How to Charter a Lodge: https://wcypodcast.com/the-shop Truth Quantum https://truthquantum.com Our Patreon www.patreon.com/wcypodcast Support the show on Paypal https://wcypodcast.com/support-the-show Get some swag! https://wcypodcast.com/the-shop Get the book! http://a.co/5rtYr2r

Henry and Eddie reunite to bring you this week's weirdest stories and true crime news - Cheers actor George Wendt dead at 76, New York MS patient pays over $12,000 to be Gene Simmons' roadie for a day, Joe Exotic's husband deported, A Haitian woman gets revenge and poisons over 40 gang members, Annabelle hits the road - leaves trail of terror in form of a plantation fire and prison escape, The Casper Serial Biter facing life in prison, Listener E-Mails, and MORE!Last Puppy on The Left - 5/23/25 - The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever - Tickets Available Here! For Live Shows, Merch, and More Visit: www.LastPodcastOnTheLeft.comKevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Last Podcast on the Left ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.

Join the members of Brahan Masonic Lodge No. 226 AF&AM in La Vernia for the lodge's first public Memorial Day observance. The event will take place on the lodge grounds at 10 a.m. on Monday, May 26. Admission is free. To honor those who have given their lives for our freedoms and security, the lodge has created a program of patriotic music provided by the La Vernia High School Band and “Friends in Harmony” choral group. The event also will include an address by Maj. Gen. Phillip Ryan, commanding general of U.S. Army South, along with presentation of the colors...Article Link

Patrick dives into some of the big questions about faith and tradition, exploring topics like the morality and history behind embalming and burial customs, why Catholics steer clear of Masonic lodges, and how different Christian groups trace their roots. He breaks down what’s needed for a valid baptism, explains why getting married in the Church matters, and clears up common myths about scripture and long-held customs. If you're looking for practical Catholic wisdom that ties together tradition, history, and everyday life, Patrick offers clear, honest answers that help you stay grounded in the truth. Nathan - Embalming in the Catholic Church: Is body melting okay for the Church? Is the pope embalmed, and does that impact whether or not he is incorrupt? (00:54) Maria - Can I go to a party that will be held at Masonic Lodge? (09:25) Jen - Why does this station always talk about Catholic stuff opposed to more general Christian stuff? (12:03) Sheila (email) - If someone is not baptized and coming into the Church, they do not need to go to confession? (20:39) Fr. Paul - Confession before Baptism (23:09) Margaret - Is it a Jewish custom to take your napkin and scrunch or take it with you after a meal? (28:36) Natalia - What constitutes a prophet biblically? (30:15) Patrick answers Margaret’s question about scrunching up napkins (37:37) Jared - Is baptism valid if somehow the parents were considered godparents? (41:14) Rosa - During confession, the priest used the word 'crap' and was that still 'in persona Christi' (49:07)

Send us a textJill Shelley takes us deep into the fascinating world of haunted property ownership, sharing her extraordinary journey from curious paranormal investigator to the proprietor of two historically significant haunted locations. Throughout our conversation, Jill reveals what happens when you don't just visit haunted locations – you purchase them, restore them, and develop relationships with their spiritual residents. Her first property, the historic Boyd House built in 1901, has become renowned in paranormal circles for its consistent activity and resident spirits with distinct personalities, including a gentleman named Fred and his particular wife Minnie who dislikes swearing in her home.The discussion takes an even more fascinating turn when Jill shares details about her newer acquisition – a Masonic Lodge in Illinois with unexpected secrets. What appeared to be simply a former meeting place for Masons was revealed to have a much more colorful past as an 1861 hotel and brothel, explaining the surprising presence of children's spirits who communicate clearly through EVPs, asking to play with dolls and responding to investigators' questions.The evidence Jill shares is compelling – from a violently slammed kitchen cupboard that sent an investigator running, to a rocking horse moving on its own in an attic with no air circulation, to spirits who play card games and communicate their moves through K2 meters and spirit boxes. Most remarkably, these interactions happen in a building with zero electrical power, eliminating many potential contamination sources.What truly elevates this conversation is Jill's thoughtful approach to coexisting with her spiritual residents. She purchases items specifically for them based on their known preferences, sets respectful boundaries, and creates spaces where both the living and the departed can comfortably share the same historic properties. Her insights about how spirits from different time periods respond to modern investigators offer valuable lessons for anyone interested in paranormal research.Ready to experience these haunted properties yourself? Both locations are available for overnight stays and investigations. Visit boydhouse217.com or haunted1861masonic.com to book your own encounter with history's lingering residents.https://boydhouse217.com/https://haunted1861masonic.com/Support the showFind us at: gxparanormal.com Watch On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@generationxparanormal Listen: • Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/generation-x-paranormal/id1661845577?i=1000666351352 • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6zQmLQ0F78h8KRuVylps2v?si=79af02a218444d1f Follow us on Social Media: • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GenXParanormal • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/generationxparanormal/ • Twitter (X): https://x.com/GXParanormal

The education sector's hopeful further investment into school classrooms is on the way. New data shows 368 state schools had more students enrolled than their official classroom capacity last year – almost 1500 are at capacity. Education Minister Erica Stanford announced $100 million for school property, with new schools and classrooms in Auckland. PPTA President Chris Abercrombie told Ryan Bridge it's got to be supercharged, so more schools can get re-locatable classrooms when they need them. He says schools are trying to find interesting solutions to the problem – he's heard of one using a Masonic Lodge over the road to help. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join us for the first part of our long-awaited series on The Masonic Lodge. Our guest, Chris, is a former Third Degree Master Mason from the Blue Lodge in Alabama. If you are a Mason, it is important to understand that your experience may not exactly reflect that of our guest, as there is no central authority in Freemasonry; each lodge operates completely independently from the others, depending on the state in which it resides. Listen in as Chris shares what led him to join the Lodge and what ultimately caused him to leave. Content like this is made possible from donors like you as we are a 100% crowdfunded ministry. Partner with us & be part of the mission to change lives. https://donorbox.org/cultish

Host Jen Miller meets with Bob Painter of the West Shore Masonic Lodge to talk about what Freemasonry is, what they do within the Lodge, and their involvement in the community. Upcoming events happening in Avon Lake: January 20: Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Avon Lake Public Library Closed - No City Council Meeting January 21, 7:00 PM: Collective Committee Meeting January 27, 7:00 PM: City Council Meeting February 6, 7, & 8, 7:00 PM & February 8 & 9, 1:30 PM: Mighty Goliath Productions Presents The Wizard of Oz at the Avon Lake High School Performing Arts Center February 7, 6:00 PM: "Dark Skies, Bright Kids 2025" at The Anchor Recreation Facility March 2: Deadline for Snowman Building Contest submissions Christmas trees will be collected the first and second full weeks of January.  Ornaments, tinsel, etc. must be removed and the tree cannot  be encased in plastic. For information about these and future events/meetings in Avon Lake, please visit www.AvonLake.org/Events.

The Master of a Masonic Lodge wears one hat but has many responsibilities. From planning meetings and events, to working with candidates and trustees, the Master's charge is to maintain the integrity of his Lodge's charter and provide leadership during his year in the East. WB James Pender III, is also completing his year in the East and shares his perspectives on the role of the Worshipful Master.Show notes:Get tickets to the first New York Masonic Con, happening on January 18, 2025 at the Grand Lodge of New YorkFollow the Craftsmen Online Podcast on Spotify.Subscribe to the Craftsmen Online Podcast on Apple Podcasts.Follow Craftsmen Online on YouTube, hit subscribe and get notified the next time we go LIVE with a podcast recording!Visit the Craftsmen Online website to learn more about our next Reading Room event, New York Masonic History and Masonic Education Blog!Get our latest announcements and important updates in your inbox with the Craftsmen Online Newsletter.Email the host, RW Michael Arce! Yes, we will read your email and may even reach out to be a guest on a future episode.Support the Craftsmen Online Podcast. Whether it's a one time donation or you become a Patreon Subscriber, we appreciate your support!Sponsor offer: Don't forget to use the promo code CRAFTSMEN to receive free shipping with your first order from Bricks Masons!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/craftsmen-online-podcast--4822031/support.

Friday, London McDaniel at the Antlers, Vance Gilbert at a Night Eagle Cafe folk music show at the Savage Club, Driftwood for the first of two shows at Ransom Steele Tavern, and a Max Childs Black Friday Dance Party with guest Anthony Mansfield at Deep Dive. For your Saturday, Jennie Lowe Stearns at South Hill Cider and Driftwood at Ransom Steele Tavern for the second of a pair of shows. Sunday, modern western square dancing at the Lansing Community Center! Wednesday, Ethan Setiawan and Fine Ground at a house concert in Brooktondale, Wednesday open mic night at Sacred Root, and Galactic Wednesday at Deep Dive. Jazz Thursdays with MAQ at South Hill Cider, and Ithakaraoke with a live band at Deep Dive. Next Friday is First Friday Gallery Night all over town. Happy Hour with GoGone at Deep Dive, London McDaniel at the Antlers, and a David Bowie Tribute Show to benefit Reach Medical at Deep Dive. Next Saturday, a Dryden Holiday Celebration all day around Dryden. A Winter Artisan Market at Press Bay. Newfield Christmas Tree lighting at the Masonic Lodge. Krampusnacht at Liquid State Brewing. And Rev Ezra at South Hill Cider. Lots more details and more 14850 [...]

Paranormal investigator Jill Shelly returns to share her eerie journey from the infamous Boyd House to her newest paranormal property: the 1861 Masonic Lodge in Keithsburg, Illinois. What secrets lie within the walls of this once-bustling building, which served as a hotel, possibly a brothel, and a hub for secretive Masonic rituals? Strange EVPs, child voices, and shadowy apparitions make this location a chilling addition to Jill's haunted real estate portfolio.  Are the spirits trying to communicate—or are they just making known? This is Part Two of our conversation. For more information on the lodge, go to haunted1861masonic.com. For information on the Boyd House, visit the boydhouse217.com. Become a Premium Supporter of The Grave Talks Through Apple Podcasts or Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks) There, you will get: Access to every episode of our show, AD-FREE! Access to every episode of our show before everyone else! Other EXCLUSIVE supporter perks and more!

Paranormal investigator Jill Shelly returns to share her eerie journey from the infamous Boyd House to her newest paranormal property: the 1861 Masonic Lodge in Keithsburg, Illinois. What secrets lie within the walls of this once-bustling building, which served as a hotel, possibly a brothel, and a hub for secretive Masonic rituals? Strange EVPs, child voices, and shadowy apparitions make this location a chilling addition to Jill's haunted real estate portfolio.  Are the spirits trying to communicate—or are they just making known? For more information on the lodge, go to haunted1861masonic.com. For information on the Boyd House, visit the boydhouse217.com. Become a Premium Supporter of The Grave Talks Through Apple Podcasts or Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/thegravetalks) There, you will get: Access to every episode of our show, AD-FREE! Access to every episode of our show before everyone else! Other EXCLUSIVE supporter perks and more!

US regulators want Google to devest of…chrome.  This is the business news headlines for Thursday the 21st day of November, thanks for being here. That story kicks us off today and stick around for what is a hyper-local story about West Gate-Adephic Lodge #509 AF & M a Masonic Lodge in Windsor Heights, Iowa that puts on a fund raising breakfast the third Saturday of each month. Why? to raise funds for smaller non-profits in the Greater Des Moines Metro. My guest is member Steve Blondino. We're airing this in the hope you might take the idea and run with in in your community.  Also,  if you want to reach out to us on social media you can hook up with us all day on Twitter or "X" @IOB_NewsHour and on Instagram. Facebook? Sure were there too.  Here's what we've got for you today: Google and the Justice Department; Two big movies are released this weekend; Could we get "Glicked"? Phillips 66 is in some hot water over...water; A legal decision about the Penn State logo; A nugget we found about TGI Friday's is of interest; The Wall Street Report; The price of your Thanksgiving Dinner for ten. Stay with us for a conversation about doing good for others. My guest is Steve Blondino and it's all about food, friends, finance and giving.  We're airing this hyper local story in the hope that you'll be motivated to do something similar in your community. Thanks for listening! The award winning Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday business news podcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and some local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday. You can subscribe on  PlayerFM, Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio. And you can catch The Business News Hour Week in Review each Sunday Noon Central on News/Talk 1540 KXEL. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour...and on Threads @Insight_On_Business.  

Night two of Moby's live celebration of the 25th anniversary of "Play". Live from the Masonic Lodge in Los Angeles, Lindsay, Bagel, and Moby explore his experience of the album's release, his life pre-sobriety, touring, and the public reception of "Play." Moby is joined by a cast of musicians to perform songs from this special album. Music credits: Moby - lead vocals, guitar, and piano Choklate - lead and backing vocals Nadia Christine Duggin - lead and backing vocals Julie Mintz - backing vocals Laura Dawn - backing vocals Daron Murphy - harmonica Maya Paredes - cello Andrea Whitt - violin and pedal steel guitar Recorded, mixed, and edited by Jonathan Nesvadba Music mixed by Ben O'Neill — We want to hear from you! Shoot over an email and say hi: mobypod@moby.com Don't forget to subscribe! Leave us a comment!    Follow @moby @linzhicks @candicebergenbagel  Part of the Human Content Podcast Network A Little Walnut Production

Jill Shelley Bio:I have always been fascinated by the paranormal since a young child when I had my first experience. In 2010 I met some amazing people with the same passion and we formed our team St. Croix paranormal. We traveled all over the US to well known haunted locations in search of anwsers. It was through these travels I decided to have my own location to allow others to come and investigate at. In 2018 i was able to fulfil that gream with the purchase of the Boyd house and in I was able to do it again in 2023 and purchased the 1861 Masonic lodge. It has  been quite the adventure. Links are boydhouse217.com and haunted1861masonic.comTypical Skeptic Podcast Links and Affiliates:❤ -  support the Typical Skeptic Podcasthttps://paypal.me/typicalskepticmedia - PayPal -  cashapp $kalil1121 venmo @robert-kalil  -  or buy me a coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/typicalskeptic

There are tons of conspiracy theories when it comes to Freemasons, and the secrets of the Masonic Lodge. In todays episode we talk with the creators of the show Broken Ashler! We talk about making this show, the push back from creating a story such as this, trying to keep it authentic, and telling an excellent story! Join me as I talk to the creator, writers, director and producers for this new show. This is an episode you won't want to miss!   To find out more about this project: https://linktr.ee/brokenashlerllc    ======================== Podcast Networks:       Zeo to Hero Podcast Network: https://zeotohero.com/         OIW Podcast Network: https://www.oiwpodcastnetwork.com/         ======================== Merch! https://iygadapshop.etsy.com/    Stickers By Stasha: https://linktr.ee/stickersbystasha        =======================     Original Geek Comics: https://www.originalgeekcomics.com/    https://linktr.ee/OrgnlGeek    Original Geek: Beyond The Panels Podcast: https://www.redcircle.com/show/ogbeyondthepanels   Support our Kickstarter for Vengeance 4: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/originalgeekcomics/vengeance-vs-bullet-shibito  ==========================================   Diamond State Wrestling: https://www.youtube.com/@diamondstatewrestling   www.diamondstatewrestling.com    Music by Music Hub from Pixabay.com   If You Give A Dad A YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@IfYouGiveADadAYoutubeCha-uw7zm    If You Give A Dad A Cosplay: https://www.youtube.com/@IfyougiveadadaCosplay-nl9hc   ========================= musical credits for show:       Beginning Music from Tunetank.com The Indie Rock - ViPSound (Copyright Free Music) Download free: https://tunetank.com/track/552/the-indie-rock/          Intro theme sampled from: https://pixabay.com/music   (find whole song there)       Outro music by: D.Cure Produced by: tunnA Beatz If you enjoy his music, be sure to check out his website as well! www.dcurehiphop.com         ===========================       Linktree to follow me: http://linktr.ee/Giveadadapodcast      

Special Guest Host Cale Clarke has an exhilarating discussion on the archaeological evidence for Jesus and his world. Discover the groundbreaking finds like the Pontius Pilate inscription and the bone boxes of Caiaphas and James. Cale explores who these historical figures are and debunks some common misconceptions about Jesus' family. Whether you're a history buff or curious about biblical evidence, this episode is packed with insights you won't want to miss.   Cale continues his conversation with Tracy from the end of the last hour about if it's okay for her to go to a Masonic Lodge for her nephews' youth organization (01:45) Denise - My family has one of the nails that were preserved from Jesus' time. (05:29) Cale was an extra in Titanic! (13:30) Patrick - Shroud of Turin: the image is created by a laser like burst. So Jesus converted His body into energy and he vaporized. (21:25)

Special Guest Host Cale Clarke takes listeners through a captivating journey into the life of one of the most beloved saints in history—St. Francis of Assisi. From his transformation from a party-loving youth to a revolutionary figure in the church, Cale delves into Francis' early life, profound conversion, and the miracles that mark his spiritual journey.   Saint Francis of Assisi (01:25) Tracy - Can I go to an event at a Masonic Lodge? It's my three nephews' initiation in their youth organization. (46:10)

Never Home - Rich Sherman More than 521,000 Americans died fighting against tyranny and oppression during World War I and World War II.  About 207,000 of them never made it home – even in death.  Their remains rest in 23 cemeteries spread across 8 countries on 3 continents. Cover of "Never Home: Remembering the Military Heroes Who Never Returned" Retired Navy Intelligence Officer now professional photographer Rich Sherman traveled to all 23 of these cemeteries over the course of six years. He has documented their final resting place in his book “Never Home; Remembering the Military Heroes Who Never Returned”. The book also tells the stories of select service members whose graves he documented. Rich believes photos are the perfect medium for sharing the heroism, glory and magnitude of the loses from these wars. “Photography is a language until itself and sometimes it is able to describe things for which we have no words” The Tun Tavern Legacy Foundation - Pat Dailey The Tun Tavern was a Philadelphia brew house built in 1685. When the Continental Congress commissioned Samuel Nicholas to raise two battalions of Marines on November 10, 1775, he went directly to the Tun Tavern and appointed its proprietor as the Marine Corps' first recruiter. The Tun fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1781. The original site is now buried under an interstate freeway. Many of the members of the Continental Congress enjoyed the hospitality of the Tun after their sessions. After being appointed to lead US forces in the Revolutionary War, George Washington held his celebratory dinner there.  It was also the very first documented Masonic Lodge in North America, with Benjamin Franklin serving as one of the early Grand Masters and even printing their menus. Marine Corps Veteran Pat Dailey leads the non-profit Tun Tavern Legacy Foundation. Their mission is to recreate the Tun Tavern as it originally was on a location only a block away from where the first tavern stood.  Pat says securing the site was one of the greater challenges of the project. The estimated cost of the project is $20 million. The Tavern will continue to be operated as a non-profit with all of the revenues over costs benefiting military and Masonic charities. The site will also include a small museum.

The episode where we bone home…jk. But we do go to an investigation close to home as we hit up the Masonic Lodge in Independence, MO! Listen, we may know a Mason and be free, but we are not Free Masons, and women were not allowed in these lodges when they were initially constructed. So all that adds up to us antagonizing some male spirits, talking about the Truman Stroll Trail, and spirits taking over our pictures…again.www.thetipsyghost.comFind us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok @thetipsyghost.Email us your stories at thetipsyghost@gmail.comShow your support when you subscribe, leave a great review & give us a 5 star rating—it really helps

Send me a DM! ILY All!Today I'm honored to introduce you all to: Satanic Ritual Abuse, mind control, and Mormon abuse whistleblower, life coach, mother, silversmith and jewelry maker, entrepreneur, public speaker, seminar host, podcast host of her own podcast “Letters to the People”, and a woman on a mission to educate people about the realities of ritualistic trauma and abuse: Asia RaineAsia was born into a multi-generational incest based Mormon and satanic family in Utah and her abuse began from an early age where was ceremonially groomed by the Mormon church and was used repeatedly in satanic rituals and mind control programming. Asia speaks about the levels under Mormon Temples where she was abused and helps us to understand the relationship between satanic ritual abuse and how it is able to hide so well in spaces like the LDS Church. Asia was also a victim of trauma-based mind control and also helps us to understand the inner workings of the occult and how these abuse systems run rampant and hide behind goodwill and secrecy. Just as the founder of the LDS church was a Freemason, religious systems and bodies are often designed to compartmentalize and promote secrecy through the same order, oaths, and hierarchy structures that you'd see in a Masonic Lodge. And as you'll see with Asia, her life was laden with secrecy buried in the depths of a double life, dissociation, and repressed memories. Asia has dedicated almost 25 years to her healing journey by being what she calls her own ‘inner archeologist', and now - after mastering the art of looking within - Asia helps and teaches other survivors to do the same. Asia has her own podcast called ‘Letters to the People', her own thriving business, and honors the power that inner work has, in changing lives. She also works as an intuitive life coach where she performs memory recovery and past life sessions, and inner child work with individual clients and groups. Asia understands the deep inner work required for healing and utilizes a lifetime of skills to assist others in their personal journeys through life. She has appeared on multiple media outlets and podcasts as well where she helps to inform and educate others, as well as validate victims. In Asia's spare time, she is a silversmith with a penchant for making beautiful jewelry and she loves hiking and spending time with her doggy, Zena. Asia has been one of the most requested guests that all of you have asked to have on the show and I couldn't be more honored to share her testimony and wisdom with all of you. Asia's abusers thought they could break her, but all that ended up breaking with Asia was the cycle of generational trauma.  GET 15% OFF RIFE TECHNOLOGIES: https://realrifetechnology.com/?rfsn=7971064.a3eda5Use Code '420' at checkoutCONNECT WITH ASIA: Website: Asia RaineJewlery Designs: Shop All Handmade Jewelry | Custom Jewelry | AsiaRaineDesigns – Asia Raine Designs'Letters to the People' Podcast: Letters To The PeopleIG: @letters.to.the.people.podcast - Asia Raine (@letters.to.the.people.podcast) • Instagram photos and videosCONNECT WITH EMMA & THE IMAGINATION:Emma's Substack: (1) Emma's Substack | Emma Katherine | SubstackEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com   All links: Emma Katherine on Direct.meBUY ME A COFFEE: Emma Katherine iSupport the Show.

Did you know that the Worshipful Master, not the Secretary, is ultimately responsible for a Masonic Lodge?Many Masters are unaware they're personally accountable to Grand Lodge for everything the Lodge does. This lack of understanding often leads to Secretaries and Past Masters running the show.Understanding the true power structure can revolutionize Lodge leadership, fostering growth and preventing stagnation in Masonic organizations worldwide.Show Notes:Read original article on SubstackWatch on YoutubeFollow the Daily Masonic Progress Podcast on SpotifySubscribe to the Daily Masonic Progress Podcast on Apple PodcastsRead and subscribe to Daily Masonic Progress on SubstackWatch and Subscribe Youtube

This week we present the audio of the live show we did at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery as part of the Netflix Is A Joke Fest! Moshe and Natasha are joined by Atsuko Okatsuka and Sabrina Jalees to give advice on not wanting your partner's other partner at your orgy birthday party and dog/baby interactions. Plus, a few secrets! Submit your deepest secrets to the Endless Honeymoon Secrets Hotline: (213) 222-8608 and ask Natasha and Moshe for relationship advice: endlesshoneymoonpod@gmail.com.   Come to our next dinner party, get merch discounts, mystery boxes, etc.: https://www.patreon.com/endlesshoneymoon We have merch! Get beanies, mugs, and more:  http://endlesshoneymoonpod.com/shop

We all love the Light House Bistro...right? Well, I have news for you! Rise & Shine Bakery is the latest social enterprise, and it is the result of the two women who made the Light House Bistro such a success. In a nutshell, Rise & Shine Bakery is a place for anyone who has a barrier to employment, enabling them to learn a desired trade in a very in-demand field--baking! Today, we sit down with Elizabeth Kinney and Pam Siemer to discuss how this program is changing lives while contributing to the waistlines of many! The twelve-week program is offered at no cost to participants; in fact, they receive a small weekly stipend. If transportation is a problem, a van can help get you to and from the program. So who is eligible? Anyone who has a barrier to employment--people in recovery, re-entering from incarceration, homelessness, domestic abuse victims, and even folks with autism. So, how can we support the effort? Eat--that's easy. Donate--the Dunleavy Family Foundation has offered up to a $1 million matching grant, so your money is worth twice as much! Or the easiest way--spread the word to your neighbors, family, and those in the hospitality business who might like to have some yummy baked goods! The end goal is to purchase a building with a commercial kitchen in the back and a retail store in the front, but for now, they are working from the Masonic Lodge in Odenton. There's so much goodness wrapped up in this venture (maybe more than in their signature cookie). Have a listen and then go and get some cookies!! LINKS: Rise & Shine Bakery (Website) Rise & Shine Bakery (Facebook) Rise & Shine Bakery (Instagram) Rise & Shine Bakery (LinkedIn) Rise & Shine Bakery (DONATE)

https://youtube.com/@greyduckparanormal?si=R59fWPV0ma4MZNHH https://www.facebook.com/p/Grey-Duck-Paranormal-61554695788108/ "When there's something strange… in your neighborhood… who ya gonna call? Well, obviously, you should call Grey Duck Paranormal! We had an absolute blast chatting about Mercer County's spooky Keithsburg Masonic Lodge. Got any other haunted spots in the MC we should check out? Drop us a line—just make sure we bring plenty of ghost snacks and ectoplasm cleaner for the ride!"

Healing With Angelica Podcast With Special Guest Student Minister Willie Muhammad Episode: 95 Finding common ground: where understanding meets compromise for a harmonious future. On this episode student minister Willie Muhammad and I will be discussing the power of conflict resolution & how we can begin naturing healing within self and community just from having understanding with others through proactive dialogue and so much more! Guest BIO: Mr. ‭ ‬Muhammad ‭ ‬is ‭ ‬a ‭ ‬native ‭ ‬of ‭ ‬New ‭ ‬Orleans. ‭ ‬He graduated ‭ ‬from ‭ ‬Walter ‭ ‬L. ‭ ‬Cohen ‭ ‬High ‭ ‬School ‭ ‬and received ‭ ‬hi‭s bachelor's degree in Secondary ‬
Education from Xavier University. ‭He‬ ‭is‬ married ‭to‬ Sister ‭ ‬Michelle ‭ ‬Muhammad, ‭ ‬and ‭ ‬they ‭ ‬have ‭ ‬two beautiful daughters, Nandi and Azire. Mr. Muhammad is a gifted playwright. He received the August Wilson Award and has had some of his 
works such works as A Forced Family Tradition, A Black Tragedy and ‭ ‬Color Me Dead ‭ ‬performed. ‭ ‬He was also a member of the Black Drama Club while attending Xavier University. ‭He‬ has been honored ‭to‬ be one of the fellows ‭in‬ the Dr. Norman ‭ ‬Francis (the longest standing President of Xavier) Leadership Program. Each fellow was approved by Dr. Francis. Mr. Muhammad ‭is presently teaching History ‬and Social Studies on the secondary level at a local High School in New Orleans. Mr. ‭ ‬Muhammad ‭ ‬is ‭ ‬a ‭ ‬tireless ‭ ‬and ‭ ‬innovative ‭ ‬champion ‭ ‬to ‭ ‬the ‭ ‬cause ‭ ‬of ‭ ‬projecting positivity in his community. He founded and is the host of the online show, “I HAVE A ‭ ‬TESTIMONY”, ‭ ‬which ‭ ‬chronicles ‭ ‬the ‭ ‬life ‭ ‬and ‭ ‬wisdom ‭ ‬of ‭ ‬such ‭ ‬people ‭ ‬as ‭ ‬Rock Newman, Dr. Wesley Muhammad, Doug E. Fresh, Father Michael Pfleger, and many others. This successful program has become nationally recognized as a collection of contemporary historical facts rarely known to the broader public. 
Mr. Muhammad has done voice over for a Hip-Hop Album produced by New Orleans 
Jazz ‭ ‬Musician ‭ ‬Irving ‭ ‬Mayfield ‭ ‬titled, ‭ ‬“Supreme ‭ ‬Beings.” ‭ ‬He ‭ ‬has ‭ ‬developed ‭ ‬and 
spearheaded the Conflict Resolution program which has allowed him to present and conduct trainings in over 25 cities. 
He ‭ ‬is ‭ ‬continually ‭ ‬active ‭ ‬in ‭ ‬the ‭ ‬city ‭ ‬of ‭ ‬New ‭ ‬Orleans, ‭ ‬building ‭ ‬and ‭ ‬strengthening 
relationships ‭ ‬to ‭ ‬benefit ‭ ‬and ‭ ‬educate ‭ ‬citizens. ‭ ‬This ‭ ‬includes ‭ ‬his ‭ ‬outreach ‭ ‬program, Friendships ‭in‬ All Walks of Life, which has hosted many community leaders, such as Big Chief Tyrone Casby of the Mohawk Indians of the Mardi Gras Indians. ‭He recently ‬was honored by the Shriners of the Masonic Lodge of New Orleans, The Oriental Lodge. In‭ a step towards unity and friendship, Mr. Muhammad was named to the position as ‬the ‭ ‬first ‭ ‬ever, ‭ ‬Honorary ‭ ‬Lecturer ‭ ‬to ‭ ‬the ‭ ‬Shrine. ‭ ‬He ‭ ‬was ‭ ‬very ‭ ‬instrumental ‭ ‬in ‭ ‬the aftermath ‭of‬ Hurricane Katrina ‭in‬ helping the community survive and overcome the challenges presented by this monumental event. Mr. Muhammad worked with other activist who fought to see the law enforcement officers who injured and murder a family in the Danziger Bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Mr. Muhammad also served on the Advisory Board for the first female mayor of the city of New Orleans, Mayor Latoya Cantrell. Mr. Muhammad ‭is‬ available for interviews, community development consultation and lectures. He enjoys working in the arts with musicians and actors. However, his first love is to the youth. He strongly believes that the success of any future endeavor really belongs to them. Support this platform with a small donation to help sustain future episodes! DONATE|CONTRIBUTION

In 1873, Daniel Boukman tries to stop Rebecca from following Pedersen, who she suspects is abducting children. In 1988, Old Danny tells Amelia how things spiraled out of his control at the Masonic Lodge, while Shay Faroun explains these same tragic events to Amanda.Cast:Shay Faroun- Erin LillisAmanda Walston- Amanda GoodmanDanny/Boukman- Emanuel ElpenordAmelia Kuthright- Bonnie BogovichRebecca MacPherson- Sarah HofakerCaptain Pedersen- Graham RowatAugust Cullivan- Matthew RobertsonYoung Ebba- Noa GrahamMusic by glomagWillow's Theme vocals and vocal arrangement by Bonnie BogovichSound Design by Chris BurkePlease consider supporting the show on Patreon.You can now also support us on supercast.comGet access to all our Motherlode Editions and other bonus content within the same podcast app you use to listen to the public episodes.Follow us onTwitter: @glomagInstagram: @mandiblejudyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/mandiblejudyYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/glomagIf you enjoy the podcast, please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or Podchaser.com. It only takes a few minutes and will help us grow our audience.Support the Show.

Imagine finding a dusty box in your attic, full of old letters and faded family photos. Now, picture that attic is your Masonic Lodge, and those treasures are pieces of Masonic history. That's basically what happened to Bro. Lee Justo, Historian of Huguenot Lodge No. 46 White Plains, New York. But instead of just marveling at the history, he did something incredible – he turned it into a YouTube sensation called "Secret Masonic History."Show Notes:Visit Huguenot Lodge 46 online Watch The Masonic History Channel on YouTubeFollow the Craftsmen Online Podcast on Spotify Subscribe to the Craftsmen Online Podcast on Apple Podcasts Visit the Craftsmen Online website to learn more about our Reading Room, New York Masonic History section, and see our Lafayette Bicentennial Events Calendar!Get our latest announcements and important updates in your inbox with the Craftsmen Online Newsletter Email the host, WB Michael Arce! Yes, we will read your email and may even reach out to be a guest on a future episode. Support the Craftsmen Online Podcast. Whether it's a one time donation or you become a Patreon Subscriber, we appreciate your support!Sponsor link: Don't forget to use the promo code CRAFTSMEN to receive free shipping with your first order from Bricks Masons!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/craftsmen-online-podcast--4822031/support.

This week Moshe and Natasha are joined by Jameela Jamil! Moshe and Jameela exchange DJ stories, Jameela shares the first gift her partner James Blake gave her, and so much more! They give advice to one caller who wants to travel with his mom because none of his friends can afford to go with him, and react to a Prince secret!  LOS ANGELES! Our next live show is May 4 @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Submit an advice question if you'd like to be on the show (and get in for free) here: https://forms.gle/cXAiNHJmqa7XBqQ37 Submit your deepest secrets to the Endless Honeymoon Secrets Hotline: (213) 222-8608 and ask Natasha and Moshe for relationship advice: endlesshoneymoonpod@gmail.com.   Come to our next dinner party, get merch discounts, mystery boxes, etc.: https://www.patreon.com/endlesshoneymoon We have merch! Get beanies, mugs, and more:  http://endlesshoneymoonpod.com/shop

This week Moshe and Natasha are joiend by Nikki Glaser! They discuss their Reddit habits, the time a fan almost died at Nikki's show, and Nikki and Natasha recall their recent interaction with Travis Kelce! Then, they give advice to one caller who isn't sure when to tell dates she doesn't have nipples and another who is expecting a visit from a long distance love interest.  LOS ANGELES! Our next live show is May 4 @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Submit an advice question if you'd like to be on the show (and get in for free) here: https://forms.gle/cXAiNHJmqa7XBqQ37 Submit your deepest secrets to the Endless Honeymoon Secrets Hotline: (213) 222-8608 and ask Natasha and Moshe for relationship advice: endlesshoneymoonpod@gmail.com.   Come to our next dinner party, get merch discounts, mystery boxes, etc.: https://www.patreon.com/endlesshoneymoon We have merch! Get beanies, mugs, and more:  http://endlesshoneymoonpod.com/shop

This week Moshe and Natasha are joined by W. Kamau Bell! They get into Moshe's exhausting first impressions, Mark Twain's stand up, and doing the work to make a difference in your community. They give advice to one caller with a rock-throwing neighbor (see our Instagram for the pic) and another who is navigating the divorce of two close friends.  LOS ANGELES! Our next live show is May 4 @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Submit an advice question if you'd like to be on the show (and get in for free) here: https://forms.gle/cXAiNHJmqa7XBqQ37 Otherwise, get your tickets here: https://hollywoodforever.com/event/natasha-leggero-and-moshe-kasher-endless-honeymoon/ Submit your deepest secrets to the Endless Honeymoon Secrets Hotline: (213) 222-8608 and ask Natasha and Moshe for relationship advice: endlesshoneymoonpod@gmail.com.   Come to our next dinner party, get merch discounts, mystery boxes, etc.: https://www.patreon.com/endlesshoneymoon We have merch! Get beanies, mugs, and more:  http://endlesshoneymoonpod.com/shop This week's episode is brought to you by:https://rocketmoney.com/honeymoonhttp://helixsleep.com/honeymoon (use code HELIXPARTNER20)

9:27 - Is the Solar Eclipse coming up a sign from God? / 16:32 - How to disprove once saved, always saved? / 38:26 - How to keep my son out of the Masonic Lodge? / 43:31 - Will the vaccine mark me for the devil and turn me into a Nephilim? / 51:08 - Is the crucifix an idol? / 53:00 - Why were some books left out of the Bible?

Marsha Warfield shares her unique journey to comedy and Hollywood. She shares stories about opening for George Carlin and The O'Jays and talks about her choice to leave showbusiness for 2 decades. Marsha also chats about the relationship between her and her mother, most notably regarding her comedy career and sexual orientation. Next, Chris shares news stories about two men charged with the Kansas City parade shooting, Elon Musk's brainchip able to control a computer mouse, Alabama declaring frozen embryos and fertilized eggs as children, a college student lawyering up against Taylor Swift, and a plane traveling over 800 mph with the help of strong tailwinds. Lasly, Noa Tishby returns to the show and previews her upcoming book with Emmanuel Acho. They talk about the effects on America after the October 7th attack and Adam shares an analogy comparing racism to antisemitism. The two also complain about college universities and The Squad. For more with Marsha Warfield: ● See her at Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles on May 06 ● http://MarshaWarfield.com For more with Noa Tishby: ● Preorder her book, Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew, now! ● http://NoaTishby.com ● Follow on X and Instagram: @NoaTishby Thank you for supporting our sponsors: ● The Jordan Harbinger Show - Available everywhere you listen to podcasts ● http://ForThePeople.com/Adam or Dial #LAW (#529) ● http://OReillyAuto.com ● http://Zbiotics.com/CAROLLA, use CAROLLA at check for 15% off

On today's Bible Answer Man broadcast (02/21/24), Hank shares a word about what happens when you die. So many people think that you die, and then somehow or other you're still physical. But that's not the case—it will be the case when Jesus appears a second time, but it's not the case when you die.Hank also answers the following questions:What is the significance of the butter and honey mentioned in Isaiah 7:15? Elwood - Wichita, KS (5:10)How does the knowledge of the second death in Revelation 20 benefit us? Elwood - Wichita, KS (8:24)Can we depend on the current scientific methods and instruments for determining the age of the universe? Eric - Modesto, CA (15:12)How can I explain to my mother-in-law that our souls are not asleep when we die? Jonathan - El Paso, TX (19:38)What are your thoughts on Christians being members of the Masonic Lodge? Yuri - Edmonton, AB (24:04)

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Why Daniel? 1 Maccabees 1:41-61 & Zechariah 8:1-8, 20-23 by William Klock The world is not what it once was.  My great-grandmother—the only one of my great-grandmothers I ever knew— was born in 1896.  When she died in 1993, I remember everyone talking about how much the world had changed in her lifetime and how she'd seen it all.  She was the daughter of Portuguese immigrants from the Azores, one of thirteen children in a close-knit family.  She grew up in Mission San Jose, a little town on the east side of San Francisco Bay.  It was centred on a church established by Father Junípero Serra, the 18th Century Franciscan missionary.  It was the Catholic California version of one of those New England Puritan towns centred on a white, clapboard Congregational church.  She could remember the days when no one had ever seen an automobile.  And she'd seen Neil Armstrong put that first human foot on the moon.  The Christmas I finally got the Atari 2600 I'd been begging for, she sat patiently and played Pac-Man with me, this woman who had grown up in a world not only without television, but even radios.  Hers was a lifetime of change.  It happened so fast.  From kerosene lamps to computers, from horse-drawn buggies to space shuttles, all in one lifetime. Everyone talked about that century of progress in technological terms.  I don't remember anyone talking about my great-grandmother having also seen the century of regress that happened simultaneously in religious, spiritual, and philosophical terms.  My grandmother had seen church attendance peak in the 1950s and then slowly decline.  The church that had once been the centre of the community in which she grew up is now little more than a tourist attraction.  She saw the decline of the family, the rise the “me” generation, and the sexual revolution.  She didn't have the education that would have given her the philosophical language to describe those changes, but she knew them and felt them in her bones—and her bones ached terribly.  She knew sacrifice.  Her mother died when she was ten years old.  She dropped out of school after the fifth grade to take care of her family, doing most of the cooking and baking and housekeeping for her father and twelve brothers and sisters.  She knew what it meant to be part of and committed to a family and a community, to give and to sacrifice for the sake of others, and she couldn't help but notice as her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and their (our) generations became focused on ourselves, on consumption, on materialism, unwilling to give, unable to comprehend the life she knew growing up.  Even though these things weren't what people were talking about, these were far more significant, far more profound changes that took place during the Twentieth Century—far more important than telephones and TVs and airplanes and computers. As a people we've adapted pretty readily from buggies to cars, from trains to aeroplanes, from telegraphs to texting.  It's not to say technology hasn't introduced its own problems.  But the other changes: the spiritual, the religious, the philosophical?  That's another story.  And as much as the sexual revolution and the rise of rabid individualism were shocking and disorienting in a broad cultural sense for my great grandmother, the continuing spread and evolution of those same social, spiritual, and philosophical trends—and not least their acceleration—leaves most of us, I think, feeling like someone's pulled the rug out from under us. The pace of all this change spiritual and philosophical change is staggering.  The folks who promote all these changes like to pretend that nothing's changed, but the rest of us are left breathless, troubled, even with anxiety about where things are headed and what it will mean for us.  There's a cartoon where a Leftist, Progressive, Liberal man accusingly asks a traditionalist: “Who radicalised you?”  And the traditionalist leans in and says: “No one.  I'm just a normal person from five years ago.”  I think every one of us here can identify with that.  Just a few years ago the idea of people telling you their “pronouns” and expecting you to seriously play along was absurd.  Just a few years ago, most people would think you were crazy if you said that one day the City of Courtenay would be flying a rainbow “pride” flag from city hall and painting rainbow crosswalks downtown.  Just a few years ago, to look at the world and sort everyone into classes of “oppressor” and “oppressed”, to judge everyone on the basis of power and privilege or the lack thereof, that was the purview of a handful of Marxist academics.  And now, if you don't support these things, people ask, “Who radicalised you?”  “Why can't you get with the programme?”  Or they “cancel” you—something else we'd never heard of until a few short years ago.  If only we had the confidence to stand firm and respond like the man in the cartoon: “I'm just a normal person from five years ago.  You're the ones who have lost your minds.”  Instead, we often feel as if we've been thrown into deep, murky water and are struggling to stay afloat while our feet scramble to find something solid on which to stand. And speaking of something solid on which to stand, where is the Church in all of this?  We're increasingly side-lined.  Our part of the world has always been the least-churched part of Christendom.  I like to think that there's something providential in that—that God has us right where he wants us to teach us and to prepare us for the days ahead.  (This is, after all, why I think we need to study Daniel.)  Christianity has, at least in the eyes of the world out there, become pretty much irrelevant.  When I meet people in our community and talk to them about what I do, I realise that even a lot of older people, have no idea what we're about.  They have as much idea of what goes on in a church as I have what goes on in the Legion Hall or the Masonic Lodge.  And they have as much interest in what goes on here as I have interest in the Legion or the Masons.  I've talked to people who don't recognise a clerical collar, who don't know what a pastor is, who know nothing about the Bible, and—one woman I talked to a few years ago—who thinks Jesus was a nice man who lived “a couple hundred years ago” and was “riffing off Buddha”.  The Dutch missiologist Stephan Paas describes this attitude towards the Church as “apatheism”.  Most people aren't hostile towards us.  They just don't care.  They think we're quaint and maybe a little weird and that's about it. But when the Church does stand up for something: for the gospel, for Jesus, for right and wrong, for truth—when we do make ourselves heard.  When we openly challenge the gods and kings of the pagans.  Well, then we're in trouble.  People get angry and nasty.  And there are people in the church who will jump overboard lest any of the anger or nastiness fall on them, lest people “out there” think less of them or call them haters or bigots for refusing to go along with this rapid-onset cultural insanity.  And so we end up sidelined even more and to communicate with the world around us becomes an even more uphill battle than it was before.  Like the Christians in the First and Second Centuries who were falsely accused of being atheists (because they worshipped only one god, which was as good as worshiping no god in the Greco-Roman world); who were accused of incest (because they called each other Brother and Sisters); who were accused of cannibalism (because they ate the body and drank the blood of the Lord); who were accused of being politically disruptive troublemakers (because they refused to worship Caesar).  The accusations today are a little different: we're “haters” because we insist that sin is sin and truth is truth; we're “bigots” because we believe that Jesus, crucified and risen, is the only way to the Father; and we're patriarchal, sexist, misogynists, because we talk of God as Father and Jesus as Son and believe that God created men and women to be different, but complimentary. And it's even more troubling—like the rug being pulled out again—when fellow Christians give in and capitulate to this increasingly anti-Christian culture.  For most of my life, the division between the liberal Mainline churches and orthodox Evangelical churches has been in the past.  As Evangelicals we've watched those churches that capitulated to the culture a hundred years ago become less and less relevant as they've dwindled down to almost nothing.  And we've thought the church was done with those sorts of mistakes—with capitulating to the demands of the culture to get by or to become socially acceptable.  You cannot worship Yahweh and Zeus at the same altar—not and keep your soul.  Our generation (yours and mine) not only recognised that move as a betrayal of Jesus and the gospel, but also that it didn't work.  And yet a new generation is trying it all over again.  My own seminary, a bastion of Evangelicalism when I went there, seems now to be turning out pastors who are reshaping the church and the gospel in light of those Neo-Marxist categories of oppressor and oppressed, of privileged and unprivileged; and embracing expressive individualism and all that means in terms of identity politics and postmodern sexual ethics and ideas of sexual identity.  I'm part of an alumni group on Facebook.  If you dare to say the things the seminary upheld thirty years ago, you'll be woke-scolded and shut down in that infuriatingly post-modern passive aggressive way we're all starting to know so well.  They sound remarkably—and creepily—like the Director of N.I.C.E. in C. S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength.  I listen to the sermons of some of those younger alumni and hear pastors who are leading their congregations in the process of “Deconstruction”, promoting a false gospel having more to do with Marx than with Jesus, and even defending sexual immorality.  Many of us here were forced out of the mainline Anglican churches as they followed a similar path decades ago, but now once strongly Evangelical denominations like the Christian and Missionary Alliance, the Mennonites, and the Canadian Baptists are spiralling that same drain—and their pastors, even as the go down the drain into apostasy and irrelevance, they're rebuking and scolding those of us who are holding to the Bible with everything we've got, our solid rock in the midst of this raging sea.  Even our own Anglican Church in North America hasn't been immune.  Barely a decade after our founding, having experienced all this wickedness, and we're already having to confront a young generation who, with no personal experience of our old struggles, is ready to run straight back into that old folly. What do we do?  The world is largely ambivalent to our message.  (I hand-delivered over a hundred invitations to Christianity Explored a few years ago to our neighbourhood and not a single person followed up, let alone showed up.)  And when we do speak up, when we do make ourselves noticeable, we're shouted down, falsely accused of all sorts of things, and sent to go sit in the corner like bad children—and sometimes that's exactly what we end up doing, because we don't know what else to do.  So what do we do? Brothers and Sisters, we're not the first believers to face this, although after two thousand years of Christendom, it certainly feels like we're the first.  And after two thousand years of Christendom, I think we're struggling with how to respond to our world and with what to do.  Do we defend ourselves from the false accusations or do we go and sit in the corner?  How do we proclaim the good news when people are predisposed to dismiss it?  What do we do when our traditional methods of evangelism no longer work?  What do we do when the world pressures us to go along to get along?  And, I think the most important question of all, where is the Lord in all of this?  Brothers and Sisters, again, we're not the first. We could look back to the letters John wrote in the book of Revelation to the churches in Asia Minor—letters exhorting them to stand firm in faith, on Jesus and the gospel, because a storm of persecution was coming.  We looked at those letters two years ago.  Let's look at another time of trouble for God's people that most of us probably aren't nearly so familiar with.  The books of First and Second Maccabees in the Apocrypha tell the story of Judah about 160 years before Jesus was born—in the time between the testaments.  The Jews had returned from the Babylonian exile, rebuilt Jerusalem and the temple, but still lived under Persian Rule.  The Greek conqueror, Alexander the Great, defeated the Persians in 331 BC and Judah became part of his empire.  Alexander, however, didn't live very long and his generals divvied up his empire and then they and their descendants fought with each other for two-and-a-half centuries.  Poor Judah ended up caught in the middle of that.  Those Greek kings, for the most part, left Judah alone.  She had a special status as sort of a temple state, ruled by the high priest.  But things slowly went downhill.  The priesthood was bought and sold by corrupt men.  A lot of Jews gradually adopted the pagan ways and ideas of the Greeks and became less and less faithful to the torah.  But things really went bad for Judah under a king named Antiochus IV.  People called him “Epiphanies”—just like our current season of the church year—because he believed he was Zeus manifest (epiphany) in the flesh.  Antiochus was at war with Egypt and he wanted Judah to know that she belonged to him, not to the Egyptians.  He also wanted to get his hands on the temple treasury to fund his war efforts.  So Antiochus pillaged the temple, desecrated it with an altar of Zeus, and actively suppressed their Jewish way of life—their ability to live by the torah—and tried to turn them into good Greeks.  Here's how the author of First Maccabees tells it.  Listen and see if any of this sounds uncomfortably familiar.   Then the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people, and that all should give up their particular customs. All the Gentiles accepted the command of the king. Many even from Israel gladly adopted his religion; they sacrificed to idols and profaned the sabbath. And the king sent letters by messengers to Jerusalem and the towns of Judah; he directed them to follow customs strange to the land, to forbid burnt offerings and sacrifices and drink offerings in the sanctuary, to profane sabbaths and festivals, to defile the sanctuary and the priests, to build altars and sacred precincts and shrines for idols, to sacrifice swine and other unclean animals, and to leave their sons uncircumcised. They were to make themselves abominable by everything unclean and profane, so that they would forget the law and change all the ordinances. He added, “And whoever does not obey the command of the king shall die.”     In such words he wrote to his whole kingdom. He appointed inspectors over all the people and commanded the towns of Judah to offer sacrifice, town by town. Many of the people, everyone who forsook the law, joined them, and they did evil in the land; they drove Israel into hiding in every place of refuge they had.     Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred forty-fifth year, they erected a desolating sacrilege on the altar of burnt offering. They also built altars in the surrounding towns of Judah, and offered incense at the doors of the houses and in the streets. The books of the law that they found they tore to pieces and burned with fire. Anyone found possessing the book of the covenant, or anyone who adhered to the law, was condemned to death by decree of the king. They kept using violence against Israel, against those who were found month after month in the towns. On the twenty-fifth day of the month they offered sacrifice on the altar that was on top of the altar of burnt offering. According to the decree, they put to death the women who had their children circumcised, and their families and those who circumcised them; and they hung the infants from their mothers' necks.  (1 Maccabees 1:41-61) Immense pressure was put on the people to conform.  Many of their leaders were in on it.  Many, feeling the pressure and fearing men rather than God, capitulated.  But not everyone. But many in Israel stood firm and were resolved in their hearts not to eat unclean food. They chose to die rather than to be defiled by food or to profane the holy covenant; and they did die. Very great wrath came upon Israel.   In the midst of that nightmare of persecution the book of Daniel was written.  (I know, you were starting to wonder what any of this has to do with Daniel.)  People were asking those questions: What do we do?  How do we remain faithful?  Where do we draw the line with these pagans and their demands?  And that all-important question above all else: Where is God in all of this?  Why is he allowing this to happen to us?  And so some anonymous writer, inspired by the Spirit, undertook to exhort his people by looking back to the last time Judah had faced tragedy and had been tempted to compromise with pagans: the Babylonian exile.  Specifically, he looked back to a man named Daniel. In the centuries since Daniel had lived, he'd become the popular subject of stories about faithfulness and wisdom.  This man living during the reign of Antiochus collected some of those stories to form the first part of his book—stories written in Aramaic, which had become the common language of the Jews since their exile.  And then he wrote (in Hebrew) an apocalypse in the style of a prophecy told by Daniel, and in that apocalypse he recounts the history of Judah's recent troubles, and through it all reminds the people that no matter what things look like, the Lord is sovereign over all—even pagan kings—and that he is with his people, even when it doesn't seem like it.  And in the end, knowing the faithfulness of the God of Israel, he looks forward in hope to the vindication of his people and to the Lord finally setting things to rights.  Daniel is really quite a bit more complicated than that, but that's it in a nutshell.  We'll crack open the nut in the coming months and I trust we'll be blessed, encouraged, and exhorted by what we find inside, especially knowing that it was written to people who felt as though the rug had been pulled out from under their feet and who were asking many of the same hard questions that we're asking as God's people today. The answers aren't always easy.  Sometimes we have to work out the math ourselves—like a “story problem”.  One of the interesting things about Daniel is that while we classify the book with the “Prophets” in Christians Bibles, the Jews placed this book in the section they call the “Writings”—all the books that aren't Law or Prophet.  Not everyone agrees on why this happened, but the prevailing view seems to be that Daniel was seen early on as wisdom literature—like Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes—those books where the big questions are worked out.  Where is God?  How does faithfulness work out practically in life?  Daniel does just that and one of the things I appreciate about the book of Daniel is that it shows us how we work out these questions, how we work out how to be faithful to the Lord in difficult times and difficult places, in light of what the big story of God and his people teaches us.  I had originally planned for our Old Testament lesson to be something from Daniel, but as I looked at the lectionary and the lesson it gives us from Zechariah 8, I realised that it's perfect.  Whoever compiled and composed Daniel as an exhortation to the people of Judah living under Antiochus Epiphanies, not only looked back to Daniel's experience in the Exile, but he also knew the story and the promises the Lord had made to his people before and during that exile—promises like the one we heard earlier from Zechariah: Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath. Thus says the Lord: I will return to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts shall be called the holy mountain. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of their great age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Even though it seems impossible to the remnant of this people in these days, should it also seem impossible to me, says the Lord of hosts? Thus says the Lord of hosts: I will save my people from the east country and from the west country; and I will bring them to live in Jerusalem. They shall be my people and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in righteousness.   He knew that there were parts of this prophecy yet to be fulfilled and in those dark days, that unfulfilled prophecy gave him hope, because he knew from the history of people that the Lord always does what he promises.  In particular, there's the second half of our lesson, from verses 2-23: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, the inhabitants of many cities; the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, “Come, let us go to entreat the favor of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts; I myself am going.” Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from nations of every language shall take hold of a Jew, grasping his garment and saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”   The author of Daniel looked around at his people.  Even though many of the people he knew were doing their best to be faithful, he saw so much compromise.  No one was looking to the people of Judah and seeing the Lord in their midst.  The nations looked at Judah and saw a people who were conquered—and that meant their god was conquered too.  But because he knew that the Lord is faithful, he could look forward in hope to that day when the Lord would restore his people and make them what they were—what they are—supposed to be.  He could look forward to that day that you and I have seen fulfilled in Jesus the Messiah, when the men and women of the nations would finally, at last, take hold of a Jew—the Jew—and plead, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.” Brothers and Sisters, we have seen these prophecies fulfilled in Jesus. We are the gentiles who have grabbed hold of his blood-soaked garments and he has led us to the God of Israel.  We who were not a people, have through him, become his people.  We see promise after promise fulfilled in him, fulfilled in the pouring out of the Spirit, fulfilled as the gospel has gone out to the nations.  And we, too can look forward in faith knowing the Lord's faithfulness—knowing, for example (again, just one of so many) that one day the knowledge of glory will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.  Friends, no matter how difficult or dark the days, whether we walk beside still waters or through the valley of the shadow of death, though we know blessing or we know cursing, though we experience his approval or his discipline, the Lord is with us.  He has given his Son for our sake.  He has poured out his Spirit to equip us for his work.  He has given us his gospel to proclaim for the life of the world.  And he has done none of that in vain.  I think Daniel will help us answer those hard questions, but before we hear him speak, let's commit to holding fast to the solid rock, to the basic truths we already know, revealed in Jesus the Messiah himself: that the Lord loves us, that the Lord has a glorious future for us and all of creation, that the Lord is with us no matter what.  And most of all that great truth revealed in Jesus and in his death and resurrection: that the Lord will go to any length to keep his promise to us. As we prayed in our Collect, let us pray again: Almighty and everlasting God, you govern all things both in heaven and on earth:  Mercifully hear the supplications of your people, and in our time grant us your peace (and fill us with faith and hope); through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.

In this vital episode, we're tackling the art of Lodge Strategy, a cornerstone for the enduring success of any Masonic Lodge. Learn how to craft long-term visions, make informed choices, and develop effective plans that will guide your lodge into the future. We'll discuss practical tips, share insights from successful lodges, and delve into why strategic thinking is crucial for the growth and sustainability of Freemasonry. Tune in to start building a stronger, more visionary path for your lodge!

Our lodge leadership has an emergency meeting on March 18th, 2020, to discuss COVID-19 because we had just heard from one of our brethren from an east coast lodge that the New York Grand Lodge was going to lockdown all lodges and that everyone would follow suit. We do repeat some points from the last issue because it's still fresh in our minds. The Grand Master of California issues his edict and locks down all lodges. Thousands of masons become angry and question the Grand Masters' authority. My grandmother passed away during covid and we could not be there with her. We began to have regular Zoom meetings, do wellness checks, and share toasts, Grand Lodge would have a Grand Masters Toasts every Saturday. Zoom does have a place in Freemasonry. We will not flatten the curve in 15 days. We began to use Zoom to utilize our time efficiently and plan for the future. Grand Lodge creates a Virtual Script so lodges can pay bills. Weird things begin to happen during Zoom meetings all over the world and at lodges. Most people who attended Zoom were not wearing pants and many lodges had their Zoom meetings hacked. Grand Lodge formulates a Virtual Installation Ceremony for all lodges. The Masonic Lodge was laid out for members to be socially distanced. We get accused of having secret clandestine meetings during Covid. We have our first stated meeting after COVID-19. We need toilet paper for pandemics. Our degrees are different. We will not do double degrees. The Trivium discussion group picks up again. Follow me on Instagram @masonicmuscle. If you want to write me an email or come on the show, please email me at masonicmsucle357@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cesar-rubio5/support

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President Woodrow Wilson, who strongly opposed private banks, signed off on the Federal Reserve Act, something he deeply regretted. Soon after, according to the Road to root, a theory, Wilson signed off on it. Out of fear of catastrophic inflation. The amount of gold being found in the late 18 hundreds was causing an endless rise of inflation by 1900, several mining companies were harvesting gold from the. Canyon, which was a major undertaking, an 80 mile long road, was built to access a coal deposit for power and barges and steam ships were assembled in the canyon to deliver this coal every day. By 1912, the New York Times reported that billions of ounces of gold were estimated to be dredged from this operation. And at this time, there was only 64 million ounces of gold in the US Treasury and 160. Worldwide. Adding billions of ounces would've been economically catastrophic. It would've driven the value of gold to zero, devastating the world's economies, and destroying the wealth of the world's most powerful people.Also The Income Tax was started monthes later. What was our National Debt before these acts were pasted? What is the National Debt today? Have you seen a courthouse and a Masonic Lodge? What was the founders grand plan. Research Marvin Bryer.You need to know this

The Master Teacher, Ashra Kwesi returns to our classroom to delve into a fascinating discussion as he explores the differences between Egyptian Egyptologists and African-centered Egyptologists. Brother Kwesi will also report on his recent Egypt trip and his upcoming Masonic Lodge engagement. Before Ashra Kwesi, Publisher, Author, and Entrepreneur Dr. Rosie Milligan will check in. Activist Carl Snowden will also discuss the medical experiments carried out on mostly Black Philadelphia inmates. The practice has since been scrapped, and the city has apologized.  Text "DCnews" to 52140 For Local & Exclusive News Sent Directly To You! The Big Show starts on WOLB at 1010 AM, wolbbaltimore.com, WOL 95.9 FM & 1450 AM & woldcnews.com at 6 am ET., 5 am CT., 3 am PT., and 11 am BST. Call-In # 800 450 7876 to participate, & listen liveSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Every Mason is responsible for protecting Freemasonry's integrity from men who seek to enter the fraternity for shameful reasons. We refer to this duty as "Guarding the West Gate." Bro. Chris Wessell is our guest this week as we take an inside look at the vetting process for joining a Masonic Lodge and answer a listener's question on how Masonry discourages bad actors from gaining access to membership.Show Links:Start your FREE 7-day trial of the Craftsmen Online Podcast subscription on Patreon! Get ad-free episodes, bonus content, and help support our podcast for just $5 a month. (Thank you in advance!)Visit Masters Lodge No. 5 in Albany, New York online.Learn more about the Grand Lodge of New York's "Guarding the West Gate" program.Wanna email the show? Click here to send Bro. Michael Arce a message, show topic idea, or recommend a guest for a future episode.

Brethren, this Short Talk Bulletin Was written by the Rev Dr Bro Joseph Fort Newton, and first published in July 1927.  Even a stranger, visiting a Masonic Lodge for the first time, will be struck by the Letter G, prominently displayed over the seat of the Worshipful Master. Here, as we visit the words of […]

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This week's episode was recorded live in front of an audience at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles! Our first case is LINUS ITEM VETO. Sarah still sleeps with the tattered remains of her baby blanket. Her fiance, Go Fact Yourself co-host J. Keith van Straaten, finds it very upsetting to see and touch. He calls it “The Monster,” and he wants it out of their bed. Sarah wants to keep sleeping with it! Then, Jordan Morris joins to hear TATER TORT: Lucas calls himself “the humble son of a potato farmer.” His wife Laura says this is wrong because his father was actually a manager for a large American potato chip company!Thanks to reddit users u/Ironymaiden_ and /KillerPotato_BMW for naming this week's cases! To suggest a title for a future episode, keep an eye on the Maximum Fun subreddit at maximumfun.reddit.com!

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