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This past week, I read an opinion expressed about a speaker’s content at a university’s commencement speech. The writer used the word rhetor. The word rhetor shares the same roots as rhetoric. Rhetoric, as we know, is the art of using language to affect...
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I am reading a biography of J. Edgar Hoover, who served as Director of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. The book mentions a supposed crisis among young men in the early 1900s. There was a concern that they were not developing to be manly enough. Congress...
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If you use or read on social media at all, it is hard to ignore some people’s accusatory and, sometimes, blatantly unintelligent statements. When I started using social media to disseminate Masonic and leadership information, I chose not to engage in online...
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WB W.L. Wilmshurst, in his article, The Ceremony of Initiation, Analysis, and Commentary, wrote: “The First-Degree Ceremony used on the reception of a Candidate into the Craft is designed to introduce him to the first stage of a system of knowledge and...
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Have you seen this? #Freemasons #freemasonry #masonic #freemasonrytoday pic.twitter.com/wXEUbIfW20 — Masons Lead Better (@365aMason) June 8,...