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Other than the fiasco with screwing up Chamber of Reflection by one Texas lodge there is no conflict whatsoever. All that is needed is lack of opposition by members of the progressive grand line. Why members of the progressive grand line in Texas would oppose actually taking Masonic values...

Happy Masonic "birthday"! Lots of lodges have 25 year pins so maybe next year you'll have another pin for your lapel.

Lack of Masonic education - When is the last time you prepared a talk for Stated meeting? We all get out of Masonry what we put into Masonry. The last time I presented a talk at Stated was December. Just sayin ...

There are folks who find Masonry too mystical for them. Some of these folks become Masonry then deny or ignore the mystical content. The mystical content is there whether you deny or ignore it. But it is with the mystical as it is with any sort of knowledge - If you ignore it you continue to...

I don't get why there has been any conflict in the first place other than the clueless flub with screwing up CofR. There is nothing in the Traditional Observance movement that has any conflict with any GL practice I've ever seen (other than the CofR flub in one state). Near as I can tell...

My attendance raises and falls over the years. The benefit of Masonry "Stiffen the back and soften the heart" has lead me to more of something the words work poorly for. Individual contact with the divine plus decreased interest in organizational topics. Paradoxically this has led me to want...

That's because membership is a trailing indicator not a leading indicator. The leading indicator is the number of degrees and that number has been increasing nation wide for a while. Degree counts show input as a leading indicator. Membership counts show output as a trailing indicator. Is...

I saw W Bro Hammer present on this topic at the annual meeting of Illinois Lodge of Research at the 2012 Illinois GL. He is an inspirational speaker and the book is so interesting I read it in a couple of settings.

Bookmarked. thnx

"The other vitamin C" or I call it "morning holy water"!

I haven't heard of either connection or hard feelings. The Theosophical Society has centers in Pasadena, CA and Wheaton, IL. I've lived close to both but never entered either center. They appear to be separate societies based in each of those locations. The Weathon one appears to have local...

For a magnitude 22 quake you wouldn't need to check email. You wouldn't even need the news. As the scale is geometric not linear you could check its validity by noticing if you're in the world or in the afterlife no matter where you are in the world. The grand architect isn't finished with us...

If you mean LinkedIn in general, they are open to anyone. If you mean various lodge oriented groups on LinkedIn, several are open groups so like this forum they help men connect with lodges. Others ask for your affiliation but don't check; these are generally open to any Mason. A few do...

When I encounter a man of quality who I wish were a Brother I tell him "Are you aware that there are generally no invitations to become a Mason? Anyone who waits for an invitation will never get one." At which point my wife says "He may be forbidden by his lodge's rules to invite you to become...

W Bro Nagy uses a catechism to describe a catechism. Artfully done!

My first jurisdiction never used the word "catechism". It was "proficiency". When I heard the word "catechism" in my second jurisdiction it took a minute to correlate that it meant "proficiency". The content of the catechisms were different as expected, but not so different I was surprised...

The random candidates are a large part of why we need to guard the west gate. Notice the reaction to pointing out the problem of what happens when we rely on random candidates? Knee jerk reactions and rule citing. I have long figured the best way to guard the west gate is to invite and thus...

A candidate for the grand line to me needs activity, accomplishment and means. In the jurisdiction where I have attended GL the most times there is a committee who nominates brothers into the grand line plus there are occasionally contested elections for the position. The committee wants...

A lot more than one astronauts are Masons and more than one have been featured in the California Freemason quarterly newsletter over the years. There are more Texas and California Masons in the astronaut corp because of the training center in Houston, though. The most famous Mason astronaut...

I first encountered the word "catechism" used by my Catholic neighbors when I was a kid. It was a dialogue of questions and answers about Catholicism they memorized for their First Communion. At the time it struck me as more detailed than lessons I learned at my parents' church but it was much...