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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners As the Area Education Officer for the Eastern Area of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Illinois Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, I have the distinct pleasure to serve on the Committee for Masonic Education for the Grand Lodge. In order to better serve the membership and…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners I recently found out that the mother of a very good friend passed away. I hadn’t talked to my friend in some time. We seem to have a love/hate relationship, where we talk for some time, but then ultimately one of us does or says something that…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners One of my earliest, happiest memories is dancing around with my mother to Cat Stevens (now known as Yusuf Islam) album, Teaser and the Firecat. My personal favorite song from that album is: Moonshadow, followed closely by the song: Morning has Broken. The song was originally published as…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Following the uproar caused by a certain incident that occurred during the telecast of the Academy Awards ceremony, Bro. Alex G. Powers asked the Kansas Freemasonry Facebook Group, the following: “If there is a Masonic conversation to come from the actions observed at the Oscars last night,…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Many of you may have at some point in your life found yourself in a similar situation to one I had recovered from recently. On November 27, 2018, I had to have my tonsils removed. I’m a 45 year old man. When I wrote this, I was…
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by Midnight Freemason Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners Many of my fellow Midnight Freemasons have no idea that I belong to another secret society. Ok – so it’s not really a ‘secret society’, but I play in a draft simulation league using the Diamond Mind Computer Baseball Game along with 20 other so like –…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners As we finish our exploration of Dwight L. Smith’s seminal work, “Whither are We Traveling?”, we begin to explore his answers to the ten questions he posed for self-examination of the state of Ancient Craft Freemasonry in 1963. The questions he asked are as important and relevant…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners As we continue to explore Dwight L. Smith’s seminal work, “Whither are We Traveling?”, we begin to explore his answers to the ten questions he posed for self-examination of the state of Ancient Craft Freemasonry in 1963. The questions he asked are as important and relevant now…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners As we continue to explore Dwight L. Smith’s seminal work, “Whither are We Traveling?”, we begin to explore his answers to the ten questions he posed for self-examination of the state of Ancient Craft Freemasonry in 1963. The questions he asked are as important and relevant now…
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by Midnight Freemasons Contributor WB Darin A. Lahners As we continue to explore Dwight L. Smith’s seminal work, “Whither are We Traveling?”, we begin to explore his answers to the ten questions he posed for self-examination of the state of Ancient Craft Freemasonry in 1963. The questions he asked are as important and relevant now…