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There are several ways to address your question. In the larger sense, it really makes no difference if you pay your dues online, or hand a check to your lodge secretary, or send a check through the US Mail, or pay in cash. As long as your dues are paid. But- there are several other issues that...

Being able to pay dues on line, is a change that has been long in coming. The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania has enabled every PA mason to pay dues online. The Grand Lodge made an arrangement with Payliance. (See www.payliance.com). Masons can arrange for their dues to be paid online.

I have seen the slideshow, for the MM degree, and it was terrific. I obtained some videos from the GL of Oklahoma. I suggested that we view them at my lodge, and some members went ballistic. "Masonry has survived for hundreds of years without video". And blah-blah-blah. In the EA degree, we are...

I don't believe that anyone is suggesting that the rituals be altered. The general purpose of this thread, is to discuss what can be changed on the administrative side of Freemasonry. Should we expand our internet presence? Should we reach out to inactive masons? Should our meetings be more...

I would LOVE to see our stated meetings, be more interesting. I have been to so many stated meetings, and it is open the lodge, read the sick list, pay the bills, recognize the past masters, close the lodge and go home. And then members are surprised that attendance is down. Maryland has a...

I would LOVE to see the moderate use of alcohol return to our lodge functions. What USA masons do not realize, is that nearly every lodge and Grand Lodge in the world, permits alcohol in the lodge. Look at our neighbor, Canada, and see how they do it! Until the disaster of national prohibition...

BUMP!! Let's get this discussion going again.

Check out this link: http://www.masonicinfo.com/approaching.htm

I reside in Alexandria VA. There are several different plates available here, for Masons, OES, Shrine, etc. There is a special plate for Prince Hall Masons. I would guess that the clerks at the DMV would not know the difference between masons, and that a PH mason, could easily obtain either plate.

An interesting story about Masonic plates in Arkansas: The MW Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Masons in Arkansas, designed a Masonic plate, and had it approved by the Arkansas Dept of Motor Vehicles. See: http://www.dfa.arkansas.gov/offices/motorVehicle/Pages/specialityPlateDetails.aspx?show=96...

I have also had an excellent experience with Masonic plates. I am the man responsible for the existence of Masonic plates in Kentucky. I was reading the "Northern Light", the journal of the Scottish Rite (northern jurisdiction). I read an article about how New Jersey and Pennsylvania masons...

One time I was in Atlanta . Someone left an antimasonic pamphlet on my car.

I do not that gentleman.

Certainly! Visiting other lodges in the USA and abroad, is part of the wages of a MM. When I travel on business or pleasure, I always seek out the lodge(s) in the area. I like to ease the stress of work, and being away from home, by fellowshipping with other Masons. When I visit a lodge, I...

see http://www.msana.com/msastats.asp

You should check out the membership numbers at www.msana.com The Masonic Service Association of North America, keeps the statistics for all Grand Lodges in North America. The membership numbers are reported by each Grand Lodge. Freemasonry in the USA/Canada hit its peak in the years after...

If you wish to visit a lodge, you should get the lodge meeting time from the lodge webpage. Some lodges have other meetings, such as degree work, that is not listed on their webpage. You can always call a lodge officer, and get the information on when a lodge meets. And many lodges serve a meal...

No, not at all. Visiting other lodges is a benefit, a privilege of being a MM. When you become a Mason, you are part of an international fraternity. I have visited a German-speaking lodge, where some of the members risked being sent to a concentration camp, just for being a Mason. I visited a...

Visiting other lodges is part the wages of a Master Mason.