Every month since 1923 the Masonic Service Association has published The Short Talk Bulletin, which was to be an informative, chatty discussion of some aspect of Freemasonry: symbols, allegories, history, individuals, etc.. They are sent to all Lodges of the constituent Grand Lodges, and are intended to be read in all Lodges. Here, we are bringing all of these jewels of Masonic Light to life, so that Masonic Education may happen wherever Brothers are.

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For almost a hundred years the Masonic Service Association of North America has published the Short Talk Bulletins every month, discussing various symbols, lore, and Masonic historical figures and events, being the de facto “public face” of Masonry in North America. If Masonry in North America was a church, these would be the sermons. These have historically been sent out, printed and mailed. By subscribing to the Short Talk Bulletin Online Audio Library, every week you will receive new episodes of the historical Short Talk Bulletins, as well as the current Short Talk Bulletins as they become available. The vision of Anaba Publishing is to record all of the historical Short Talk Bulletins being spoken/delivered by various Masons around the country, preserve this ongoing legacy to speak to the world about the value of Masonry, and in so doing provide real and tangible support to further the goals of the MSANA: disaster relief, educational publications and masonic information. Membership in  the Short Talk Bulletin Online Audio Library equals direct support for the MSANA. All content used with permission of the MSANA. 

Featured Episode

Can You See Me Now?

This Short Talk is taken from remarks made to the Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky by the visiting GM of Tennesee, MW Casey Hood, the recording of which is here presented.

Volume 96 Number 8    |    9:13

by MW Bro Casey Hood

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Participating Narrators:

 

VW Bro David Koncz, PDER 14th, Maine

RW Bro Peter Cutler, DDGM 14th, Maine

MW Bro Mark Rustin, GM – Maine

Bro Brian Chaytor, Claude Kent Lodge #681, ON

Ill Bro Christopher Hodapp, 33rd, Broad Ripple Lodge #643, IN;  author of Freemasons For Dummies

Bro Colin Britton, Freeport #23, Maine

Bro Darren Marlar, Lodge #108, Rockford IL

RW Bro Dex Rowe, PDDGM 17th, VT

Bro Erick Weiss, Freeport #23, Maine

Bro Michael A. Smith, Freeport #23, Maine

Bro Richard Gravelin, United #8, Maine

Bro David Asherman, Freeport #23, Maine

Bro Phil Pearse, Dallas #182, GA

Ms Elizabeth Meldrum, Miss Job’s Daughter 2017, VA

MW Bro Casey Hood, GM – TN

MW Bro Craig Hummel, PGM – IA

MW Bro Russ Charvonia, PGM – CA

MW Bro Simon LaPlace, Past Executive Secretary – MSA

RW Bro Toby Williams, PDDGM 14th, Maine

RW Bro Lawrence Bethune, DGM – MA

RW Bro Robert Webber, PDDGM 14th – Maine

MW Bro Richard Nadeau, GM – Maine

RW Bro S. Joseph Esshagian, Past Grand Orator – CA

MW Bro Walter MacDougal, PGM – Maine

MW Bro George Braatz, PGM PGS – OH, Exec Sec – MSA

MW Bro Arthur Borland, PGM – OR

MW Bro William Thomas, PGM – NY

WBro Donald Cyr, PM Freeport #23, Maine

Bro Jim Cox, Redlands #300, CA

Bro Daniel Margasa, Amity Mosaic, Danvers MA

Bro Ed Robinson, Sec, Baden-Powell #381, Wellington, NZ

MW Bro C. Michael Watson, PGM – OH

WBro Matt Gallagher, PracticalFreemasonry.com and PM Arcana #187, MN

RW Bro Alan Hindley, PDDGM 14th, ME

MW Bro Brian J. Murphy, PGM – MT

WBro Dominic V. Ferraro, PM Commonwealth #325, WI

RW Bro Bill Bussiere, PDDGM – IL

MW Bro Stephen Oakley, GM – IL

MW Ill Bro Claire Tusch, 33rd, PGM – ME

WBro Wes Latchford, WM – Atlantic #2, Norfolk, VA

WB Andy Caron, PM – United #8, ME

Ill Bro Lee Terry, 33rd

VW Bro David Colbeth, Host – The Working Tools Podcast

Bro Michael Howard, William H. Upton #206, WA

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Meet The Host

Michael A. Smith

Michael A. Smith

Michael A. Smith grew up listening to his dad preach every Sunday, and returning to the family home in Maine every summer. He attended high school with the Jesuits in southwestern Connecticut, and then North Park, a small, Christian, liberal arts college on Chicago’s north side. and graduated with a B.A. and teaching certification.
Smith taught high school mathematics (and occasionally music) in Chicago for 14 years, with his favorite class being Honors Geometry. During this time he wrote for grants and started an after-school recording studio, where he taught (and learned) songwriting and music production. 
In 2004 tragedy struck, and he lost his Dad in a construction accident. He then moved to Maine to be with his family and finish the log home in Durham that was his Dad’s dream. 
After living in Maine for a few years, and getting a little frustrated with the isolation of living in the woods, he had a conversation with his grandfather, a 50-plus year member of Hiram Lodge in South Portland, who advised him to join the local Masonic Lodge in Freeport, as the Masons are “a good outfit”. He did, and was raised the next spring, with his grandfather in attendance.
Eventually, serving as Tyler for Freeport Lodge, he discovered a book of Short Talk Bulletins, published by the Masonic Service Association in 1928. Being a preacher’s kid, he recognized the quality of the writing, and the truth and relevance of the content. Acquiring the rights to produce that book in audio led in a very few short steps to the discovery of the vastness of this body of work called the ‘Short Talk Bulletins’, published every month for almost a hundred years, and written by some of the wisest heads in the Craft. Brother Smith is a huge fan of the obvious, and it became obvious that that body of work and his skills as an audio book producer were a match made by the Great Architect Himself. Thus was born the Short Talk Bulletin Online Audio Library.