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By all means! Around here it doesn't get more inspiring than a business meeting. LOL

The most active, most proficient lodge in my district is a Daylight lodge. Ridge Lodge 398. It has 62 members and has between 25 & 45 members at every meeting. Ages from 30 to 99. We have more at our practices than most lodges around here have for their stated meetings. Peace, harmony...

Re: Building Better Builders Workshop Comes to New Watch him! Watch him! He'll mess with your mind.

Royal Order of Jesters

The ROJ got some publicity for the Craft. Guess that's OK with you?

Re: A Masonic "Bill of Rights". Is it needed? Is i I didn't mean it as criticism. I have read it many times on different forums. Regardless, your post was on point.

Re: A Masonic "Bill of Rights". Is it needed? Is i Most of the recent abuses have been based on the notion that if a GM has the authority to "make a Mason on site" as a landmark he can have the power (power and authority are not the same things) to "unmake" a Mason. For whatever it's worth...

Re: Should Grand Lodges mandate that all subordina I'd be interested in which lodges get this much interest from the internet. I'd like to see their websites and see what they have done differently.

Well said!

Thank you. Florida does not allow invitations. I read something a while back called "The 7 Blunders of the Masonic World". If you allow invitations, that would be "the 8th Blunder". IMO. Another article was called: "The Law of Magnetism". It ties in well with "The 7 blunders....." I'll see...

Globes? What globes? At the time Solomon's Temple was built no one knew the earth was round. There were no globes.

Re: What would you like to see changed in the Maso I am not advocating any of those things. The point you seem to miss is, all the things you mentioned above were not what Masonry was originally about. But because of those things membership numbers are important(to some) in order to keep...

Re: What would you like to see changed in the Maso If you don't see this as the problem then, poof!, there is no problem. If we can adapt to the realities then perhaps the reality is, that we go back to what Freemasonry, imo, was meant to be. Bigger is not necessarily better and Less is...

Re: What would you like to see changed in the Maso I wasn't clear on the point I was trying to make. I'll try it again. The percentage of the population that were Masons prior to the great influx of members post WW2 is about the same as todays percentage. I don't believe Masonry was ever...

Re: What would you like to see changed in the Maso I read somewhere that the % are about the same. I'll try to find it. I think all this worry about numbers is a "tempest in a teapot". The explosion of members after WW2 did Freemasonry no favors. It is the chasing of numbers that has got us...

Re: What would you like to see changed in the Maso I say again(and again and again) we do not have a membership problem. We have a retention problem. In my jurisdiction we lose more members to NPD then to death. We can make Masons but fail to keep them. I'd bet your jurisdiction is the same...

Not in my opinion. In my jurisdiction everything slows down at this time of year what with lodge elections, installations, the holidays, etc. It wouldn't be unusual around here for you not to hear anything until January.

$125..a month= $1500.00 per year?????

I find that there is a lot of "lip service" paid to the wish for Masonic Education. Most around me couldn't care less.

We have no membership problem in my jurisdiction. We have a retention problem. We lose more members from NPD then from death. I think this is true in many places The answer??? Your guess is as good as any.