Showing posts with label Cameron Adamson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cameron Adamson. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

‘2025 AVDA finalists announced’

    
Among the news I had neglected during the summer is Magnus Geometra’s announcement of the finalists in this year’s Arcana Veritas Distinction Awards—several of whom are confessed Magpie readers—which must account for some of their success!


In the Masonic History Book category, three authors are:

▸ Robert L.D. Cooper for The Origins and History of the Order of Free Gardeners.
▸ Marshall J. Kern for The Master’s Emblem Explained for Masons.
▸ Sami Moubayed East of the Grand Umayyad: Freemasonry in Damascus 1868-1965.


Under Masonic Philosophy and Symbolism Books, the authors are:

▸ Ronald A. Albright for Masonic Commedia: Freemasonry and the Divine Comedy.
▸ Julian Rees for Tracing Boards of the Three Degrees in Craft Freemasonry Explained (Second Edition).
▸ Travis Trinca for The Temple and the Vault.


The three writers of Masonic White Papers are: 

▸ Cameron Adamson for “It’s More Than a Game.”
 Marshall J. Kern for “James Agar Biography.”
  Matthew Arian Siami for “From Stone to Temple: The Psychological Transformation of Identity in Freemasonry.”


Please take some time to read about these scholars and their works here.


The judges are David Cameron, David Harrison, and Stuart Clelland, and you can read about them here.

The awards ceremony will be hosted inside Freemasons’ Hall in Edinburgh on Wednesday, November 26.


Lately I’ve been feeling anxious about never having written anything that could be entered for such a consideration. Sadly, I have the attention span of a puppy, so I can’t think of a worthy subject to pursue. I suppose blogging is my destiny.