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This. A thousand times this.

No. Please support your curious definition of "Masonic Communication". If you look, I believe that you will find that delivering a paper on this or that Masonic topic does, in no way, qualify as such. The obligation refers to certain things we do in a tyled lodge. Nothing more.

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mohandus Gandhi

Please cite your references to support this statement.

So you're down to one critical consideration. Will this guy's views on Freemasonry interfere with you receiving from the church (and it's community) what you are seeking or will they interfere with you being able to give to that community what you may feel you need to contribute? I'd put that...

Brother, In my experience, you are much more likely to find the kind of support you are looking for amongst your Brother Freemasons than you will in that church, especially if the individual you've described is at all representative of that community. That's not to say that we're going to have...

So there are not one, but two other pine users out there. Make that four - I know a guy in Ohio... Imagine that. And I thought we were all but extinct. Now you kids, get off our lawn! :laugh:

If you like Outlook, there's certainly no reason to abandon it. It is, arguably, the best program in the MS Office suite, especially if you have some poor sod who is willing and able to keep your Microsoft Exchange Server running, but that's another thread... Thunderbird is FOSS (free open...

I suspect the "better man" bit was meant to be clever. Whatever... Why would a woman want to become a Freemason? How about to have access to all the lessons and tools that we are so proud of? Is there some reason women should not want this? Or that they should be denied this outright?

Firefox, but if Chrome had ad and flash blockers, and no-script, I'd be on it.

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Lawrence of Arabia Pulp Fiction

I've been through all of them worth a look. You're already on Tbird. Unless your mail server is Zimbra, in which case you might want to consider their desktop client, don't waste your time.

The answer depends entirely on how you define "the mysteries". I am more than humble enough to admit that there are lots of folks who are more "enlightened" than I will ever be, and most of them are not Freemasons, so clearly we can not claim to have a lock on "enlightenment". Nor do we have...

I was thinking the very same thing. To expand a bit, it's humbling; having your mind opened up enough to realize how much more there is to learn.

Heh, I was referring to the tools required to produce good BBQ, but yeah the metalworking tools are nice too. I'm so jealous. I think I'll go kick my New Braunfels Smoker and my welder.

What would be wrong with that setting. Considering the fact that the private dining rooms in the restaurants patronized by the two T.O. lodges I know of are nicer than most lodge rooms I've been in, it's a good fit. In fact, "high dues" probably means the same as "dues that are not...

That is a honey, alright. Gotta have good tools if you wanna do good work!

I believe we're talking about two different incidents in the same Lodge; a verse from Romans on a flyer, and the chaplain appending "... in Jesus' name" to a Masonic prayer (and the WM's statement about it). I can't see what's offensive about the former. It's an expression of a Brother's...

My wife went through a similar stretch a few years ago, though she is now well healed. You may be assured that we will both offer our prayers for you wife, Brother.

Exactly. As long as the focus is on "more members" (more revenue), the other priorities (guarding the West Gate) are prone to getting less attention than they deserve. ODC's are prime example of this, though it might be argued that those hurt most in that case are the candidates. Regardless...