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Why don't they publish articles from the Texas Lodge of Research in each edition? You don't have to do a full paper - scholarly journals publish edited snippets all the time. And they don't have to be new. How many hundreds, if not thousands, of papers are sitting in the Lodge of Research's...

Welcome to the community! I'm kind of surprised we haven't run into each other in person.

As in, office? Currently SD, JW elect.

Welcome to the community!

Welcome to the community!

We had one EA recently come back after three years who is now our newest MM and incoming SD. It does happen, just not as often as we all would like. When people disappear, we give them calls now and again, but only to a point. If they don't want to be there, I don't see any point in twisting...

Pretty much at all times when out of the house. Occasionally forget it, though.

The chaplain in our lodge usually prays a Christian prayer, but I don't think he's trying to be inconsiderate, I think its just a) almost everyone in our lodge is a Christian with a few deists, if not all Christian, and b) as the above poster said, I think some of the older brothers just fall...

Way more cool factor than most lodges. I mean, you can't make a ballot box out of a fish fry.

Perhaps posts the states that consider them irregular? And which states do/don't have intervisitation?

That's pretty common in lodges, from what I've seen. Masonry basically skipped a generation, which is part of the numbers/financial problem we're having right now.

Very true! It is, in some ways, a digital tracing board. I think my favorite tool is the level, as all masons, regardless of what walk of life they come from, meet on the level when in lodge. That is, at the moment anyway. It tends to change from time to time. I go on 'kicks.'

I've often wondered if more regular meetings wouldn't increase attendance. In my college fraternity, we met weekly for a business meeting. Yes, every single Friday. And we did the same things we do in lodge that people complain about; bills, minutes, etc. But because we did it more often, it...

For some reason I was under the impression that they had to request the cornerstone leveling ceremony, not the other way around. Maybe that's why we never have any up here in the panhandle, lol.

One of my best friends was raised Catholic, insists that he still is, yet rarely has anything good to say about Christianity or the church in general. In my experience, many of those people have an easy time focusing on the negatives, those things that the church/religion has done wrong, and...

Masters, because of the story. I always feel connected to story.

Did they just not want to show up? Or was it a matter of conflicts that couldn't be moved?

I've wanted to attend one as well, but they're never remotely near where I live.

I don't really read them, but then again I'm surfing the site every day anyway, so I don't know they're really targeting me.

When I was student teaching in college, one of my cooperating teachers saw my ring and asked me if there was a National Treasure or something like it. I just laughed and said, "If there was, do you think I'd be here doing this?" :p