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As much as I pray for the mental healing of the antis I thank them for their support. It is said that you can't know everything about a man by who his friends and enemies are, but you can learn a lot of importance about a man by who his friends and enemies are. You can also learn more about a...

The Moors were a part of the Caliphate. Encounters between the Knights Templar and the Caliphate have a part in why many of us like to claim the KT as our spiritual ancestors and some try to claim direct lineage. The Renaissance period in Europe happened after and arguably because they were...

A new generation is moving back towards the center of cities. Gentrification, urban renewal. Give it a few brief decades and urban lodges with be thriving again.

This is standard elementary school civics. The form of the United States is openly taken from the pre-Christian Roman Republic. A Senate and an Assembly/House. Most states even call the lower house of their legislature the Assembly. That form was modified based on the Enlightenment which was...

It also makes Texas more conservative and there is more reason to go through the line. I wonder at the correlation between how much power is held by PMs and when real recognition for PHA happened (not having visitation equals fake recognition in my very biased perspective). In comparison one...

I've been talking it up for years. 2017. Three centuries of GL Masonry. How cool it would be to be in the east for that year. As the first meeting was in a tavern it might be a good year to grow out of the restriction on having an ale in the building. US Masons may have been very active in...

Strangely, the charge was twice that to get new plates on a car from out of state. I've had MM plates in two states so far over the years so when my wife went to get the cars registered she asked. Sixty to get MM plates from the gate, 30 at renewal time. She called me at the office about it...

Same here. I wanted to have some sort of civic activity but I didn't want to get involved in politics. So I started writing down the names of fraternities and service clubs. After a couple of days I cut off adding names to the list figuring if it took me a while to think of them I might not...

To edit your profile I think you need to be on a regular browser on a regular computer not through an smart phone app. Near the top row is a pulldown "Forum Actions". The bottom option in the menu is "Edit Profile". The original poster lists his GL in his profile and it's not one of the...

Widows_son, I suggest you go to GL and socialize with brothers from all over the state. You will meet old timers who are holding up otherwise ailing lodges. You will meet teams from thriving lodges. Ask what the thriving lodges are doing. Then do that. It sounds simple except you'll...

That depends on your position I say. In the end I suggest it's both not either. As an individual Mason each of us needs to focus on our own quality to make one good man better. Be today better in some way than we were yesterday and build excellence a bit at a time across the years. As a...

Human organizations suffer from human frailties. No matter how much authority a church asserts it can never be other than a human organization. We follow the divine and often do so through churches. If a church takes a stand against teaching brotherly love in doing so that church reveals just...

I favor what happens in the work world - Ostracism and marginalization. Shunning. Be tolerant of tolerance, intolerant of intolerance. In time those who practice it will age out and die. Most in the new generation has never seen such practices in their lives. Live that all in the new...

Bro Jordan, Unfortunately your GL "the most Worshipful Son's of Light Grand Lodge of A.F. A.M. of California" is clandestine. No matter the letters you can't visit. Your best option at this point is to petition for healing at a lodge that's a member of one of the two recognized GLs in...

Decisions and edicts of the outgoing GM come up for ratification at GL. If some GM in one of my jurisdictions banned Chamber of Reflection I'd be at GL to vote against ratifying such a decision and might get in line to speak against it on the floor. Should such a ban be ratified and added to...

Mentorship and education are current drives in many jurisdictions. Very necessary. Lodges that can't field mentors for proficiency lose candidates. Lodges that don't have Masonic discussion at the Stated meeting lose new members who want meaning. Ask a brother to pick some topic and talk...

I've seen this happen in more than one lodge. Get a candidate pipeline and an active social calendar going and it's self-sustaining. Get faced with a crumbling building and repairs that cost more than the lodge is worth and the decline happens. I've been on both sides of that fence as well...

The other day Amazon recommended I pre-purchase the next Dan Brown novel so it looks like another adventure book is coming out. We get a surge of petitions every time he publishes a book. Is he driving the trend towards increased interest in fraternities or is he riding an existing trend? I...

Maybe you want to take that as a challenge to see if Masons live up to the principles we claim to uphold? You could petition and see how they welcome you. You may well discover that person was expressing a worry about something that does not happen. I hope that would happen and I do expect...

Work with what you have when you have it. Keep trying to improve on a couple of fronts at once. Deliver those paper ones and ask your clients if they want better ones. Here's an advantage to paper ones - You keep printing them so you keep cycling the advertizing to keep it fresh. Here's an...