Sioux Falls Scottish Rite

02/24/2026

Awesome day for the Sioux Falls Scottish Rite Clinic! Today they received a substantial gift from a donor who has passed on. He left this gift in his will and the upgrades it will provide to the therapies the Clinic provides will be amazing!

12/25/2025

08/21/2025

Here are Illustrious Brothers Wheeler, Smith, Runge, and Maxwell who received their 33rd Degree courtesy of the Valley of Washington, Orient of the District of Columbia during the Biennial Session in Washington this past week. Congratulations Brothers!

Additionally, our very own SGIG Jeff Larson was named the new Lieutenant Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, Mother Supreme Council of the World. Congratulations SGIG Larson!

07/18/2025

Bonus Travel Guide location: No stop in DC is complete without a trip to the House of the Temple

07/18/2025

07/18/2025

"Joseph Fort Newton’s observations are a poignant appreciation of the wisdom accumulated with age, the ability afforded by age to appreciate life differently in light of the nuances time casts upon it." —A. Hammer

Learn more in "The Patriarchs: Joseph Fort Newton and the Contemplation of Wisdom in a 'New Age'" in the September/October 2023 Scottish Rite Journal.

In the Online Edition—
📖 https://pubs.royle.com/publication/?i=801044&p=24&view=issueViewer

On the Podcast—
🔊 https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-patriarchs-joseph-fort-newton-and-the-contemplation-of-wisdom-in-a-new-age--66978783

Illustration: Historic glass slide depicting the hour-glass, a Masonic emblem of human life. Source: Patmos-Solomon’s Lodge No. 70, Savage, Maryland

07/05/2025

10/31/2024

To those who celebrate, Happy Diwali!

Diwali is known as "The Festival of Lights" and is one of most widely celebrated holidays by mainly Indians and Hindus.