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Looks like they lost or failed to renew their domain name for the web site. It's a wonderful app, but woefully unsupported, it seems.

There's an iPhone app called "Masonic Traveler" which lists and locates lodges, their contact info, and stated meeting nights, and calls the map function to help you navigate to the lodge. I've used it for a little over a year with good results, but it suddenly stopped working around the middle...

What Brother Bill said... you need to have a good grounding and get your feet settled in the blue lodge, and definitely turn in your Master's proficiency. Figure out what you like about Masonry, and just how much slack you have in your cable tow. While there is little to no memory work in YR or...

I call it studying, though what I'm really doing is learning the ritual of opening and closing, as well as conferring, and the senior deacon' s parts, mouth-to-ear with one of the instructors at a neighboring lodge. We meet weekly to recite, with me being expected to cover all parts, and I spend...

Amen... is there a DeMolay chapter, or the PH equivalent thereof in the area? That might be a good way to help spread and reinforce the lessons...

The three groups, chapter, council, and Commandery, are all independent, so you may stop wherever you wish. The trick is that they are progressive, so if you want to be a member of the council of Royal and Select Masters, you need to be a companion of the Royal Arch first. For that matter, you...

??? The plot lines for the past three novels (Angels & Demons, Da Vinci Code, and Lost Symbol) have all been the same. Only the cast of supporting characters changed. I haven't read the newest one yet, but am not anticipating a whole lot of differences...

You are a Mason from the point when you complete the EA obligation. You might have noticed a change in what you were called from that moment forward. The rest of it, from Fellowcraft to master mason and beyond, to York rite, Scottish Rite, or whatever, is simply a never-ending quest for more...

As Brother Harley noted, the most important stuff to study and achieve your objectives is communicated mouth-to-ear, so link up with a mentor and learn those proficiency lectures. Some of the material is printed in the Monitor, but at least here, you don't get one of those until you turn in...

That's one of the Ancient Mysteries that will be made clear unto you as you work your way through the degrees. As senior deacon, I've opened the door and been surprised a time or two ;-)

I read The Lost Symbol a little before I petitioned, and it's amusing to read the mistakes and assumptions he made. Still, not all that bad a book...

It seemed like the rite thing to do at the time... ;-) As with the brother above, I had been curious for several years, and found a lodge that felt like home.

Agreed... I showed up for my EA degree in a suit. Was overcrowded for our little country lodge, I guess, but it never hurts to put forth a little effort and respect. Once I'd been around awhile I started matching the way the other brothers dressed. As a candidate, they'll usually have...

In terms of real numbers, endowed (or "perpetual") memberships in Arkansas are 16 times the annual lodge dues. Historically, our local dues were $60 annually. Of 130 members, we have 68 perpetual members who pay no annual dues. In our 2012 disbursement from the perpetual fund (managed by the...

SD here works in every degree... bringing the candidate in and guiding him around during the first section/conferral, then the second and third sections of the EA and second section of the FC are all performed by the SD. In the second section of the master's he conducts the candidate up to the...

If you are in the line, work ahead on what's going to be expected of you in the next job. As ND, I learned my part in opening and closing the lodge, then started in learning the part for the SD. This year, as SD, I carry my load, and have started to work for my lecturer' s and officers'...

John Robinson's book, "Born in Blood," as well as his history of the Knights Templar were illuminating forme, at least. As for the actual lessons in the degrees, I had a long, quiet read with my ritual book, the Royal Arch Companion, and my Bible, and got a lot out of that. There's a lesson...

In most cases you need to maintain your standing in the blue lodge, chapter, and council in order to be current in the Commandery.

Nope... the course refers to "A Bridge to Light" and the Scottish Rite Monitor for nearly all its material. I have the new annotated edition of M&D that I received after the reunion that I use for some occasional background, but so far I've found the footnotes in it to be more useful than the...

There's something in the fine print somewhere about "...conceiving our desires and keeping our passions in due bounds..." that tends to inhibit things sometimes...