Freemasonry has long had a relationship to the politics of both left and right. Bourgeois revolutionaries in France and America and modern mainstream politicians have all been members, as were some ...

Six years ago, local Scottish Rite Masons marked the centennial of their singular building on the corner of Washington Avenue and Paseo de Peralta. Just in the last few years, others in the community ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Rising Sun Lodge No. 103 stands serenely on the corner of North Broadway and First Street, home to a historic fraternity steeped in myth and legend that is also a modern-day service ...

Michael W. Homer is the author of “Joseph’s Temples: The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism.” Published last summer by University of Utah Press, it covers the contentious history ...

STERLING — Members of the Sterling Masonic Lodge gathered Tuesday evening to celebrate 150 years of Masonry in Colorado. During the celebration a video presentation was shown with John V. Egan III, ...

The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World. By John Dickie.PublicAffairs; 496 pages; $32. Hodder & Stoughton; £25. SINCE THEY first came to prominence in the alehouses of 18th-century London, ...

Sometimes things can go horribly wrong. Like the initiation of 47-year-old William James into the Fellow Craft Club, a select group inside the Southside Masonic Lodge No. 493 in New York State. Mr.