All Seeing Eye

I won’t go into the meaning of the all seeing eye for Odd Fellows, but I will say that this symbol is everywhere these days: on clothing, as graffiti tags, as art, etc. So how is this symbol perceived by modern culture? Mostly, it seems to be seen as a representation of oppression. It represents […]

A very cool and creative video advertising a Halloween gathering for an Odd Fellows lodge.

UNLOCKING THE TRUTH

The Many Ways To Study Odd Fellowship

In days gone by we studied Odd Fellowship from books and the ritual. And today, we should be doing the same thing. But there are additional platforms we can use to study our principles that are adaptations from back in the day. We can also learn about our principles from those who are not Odd […]

Odd Fellowship in Popular Culture

In a way, Heart in Hand is a reflection of popular culture. Maybe it’s obvious. It should be. While making us more aware of our past it must even more importantly make us aware of our “now,” and our future. As your Conductor began working through material for this blog, he became interested in how […]

Odd Fellows Local 151 recorded by R.E.M.

Odd Fellows Local 151 Picked up this information from a webpage regarding the lyrics of this song recorded by R.E.M.–Conductor “…Peter Buck said that the “Oddfellows” were a social organisation, “just like the Mooses or the Shiners”, with lodges all over Athens. He also explained that the song was about the old winos who lived […]

Secrecy

SECRECY https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044105550446;view=1up;seq=578 The Symbol, and Odd Fellow’s magazine. v.3 (1844) page 554. Some people speak out against Odd Fellows because they assume there are secrets the Order will never reveal except to members. We admit that secrecy is imposed upon our lodges and we believe secrecy is necessary and no sin. If we consider secrecy […]

Just Tryna Join

Relieve the Damaged, Bury the Zombies, Visit the Illin’, Learn the Orphan. The fraternity of Odd Fellows dates from the 1730’s in England and over the years has spread worldwide. And perhaps now it’s needed just as much as ever, but maybe for different reasons. Odd Fellows are directed to “Relieve the Distressed, Bury the […]

Organizing Lodges

Organizing Lodges The Ark, and Odd fellows’ western magazine : a monthly … V9-10 1852-1853. Page 378 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435051150662;view=1up;seq=384 We have a few words of advice to members and petitioners trying to organize new Lodges. There are instances where Lodges have been started in flourishing and business towns which have barely survived by having only the […]

One of the Things We’re Up To

One of the things we’re up to: Your Conductor has spent a lot of time perusing back issues of 19th century Odd Fellows publications. “The Ark,” and “The Odd Fellows Casket,” are two fine examples of 19th century Odd Fellows publications. However, reading them can be quite cumbersome for the modern reader. What your Conductor […]

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