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While posting last night, it was well past more normal bed time. Also, I am about as far from an Evangelist as you can get. I believe the differences in the world's major religions are more differences in interpretation than anything. I had just read some of the posts and gotten a bit carried...

I'm not indicating anyone MUST be Christian to be Freemason or anything else in life. Every man is free to make his own everlasting choices. To (semi) quote a Hollywood movie, the choices we make in live echo in eternity. John 3:16

I think this thread needs to be locked. There are, quite frankly, some things being said here that, to me, are beyond comprehension. There is a reason religion is not to be discussed in open lodge. When asked if you believe in a supreme being, it's really not a cafeteria plan where you chose...

In Tennessee, we have two types of cards in the Blue Lodge: Proficiency and Lecturer. Lecturer means you can do questions and answers in all three lectures. Proficiency means you do that plus every part in all three first sections of degree work. The more card holders your Lodge has gives you...

If you want to go straight literal, then yes, you are correct. Our state petitions ask if you belong to a church, followed by which one. In the Commandery, you promise to defend Christianity. I was talking in a broader sense.

If you can't honestly and sincerely answer yes to that question, then you have come to the wrong shop. Masonry is not a religion and does not ask to which religion you subscribe, but it does ask you to seriously declare upon your honor that you believe in a supreme being to whom all men are...

I went to A School at Great Lakes. The wind coming off Lake Michigan early on a February morning still haunts me!

25 years ago today, I was a scrawny kid reporting for bootcamp at Orlando. I remember sitting in the airport USO watching ALF on television when they came to get us and riding onto base and the van driver pointing to the big water tower and saying "That's the doorknob to hell." Anybody else at...

I'll tip my cap to anyone who does the PS's part in the RA degree.

I'm hoping to get all our Masonic slides on PowerPoint sooner rather than later. Our old slide projector is limping along, and I don't want to replace it with another. The laptop/projector setup I have in my classroom is perfect, so I think that's what we need at the Lodge.

Welcome Brother Bruce, but let me be perfectly honest; speaking only for myself and by way of good and wholesome instruction, introducing yourself to Masons for the first as if you were an adolescent or on a beer commercial is not the best way to go about it. If someone walked into my Lodge and...

OK, I've been using the new (old style) setup for a couple of weeks, and it is going pretty well. In an earlier post, I described shaving as a distasteful waste of time. I'm actually kind of getting into it. Yes, it takes a little longer now, but the whole experience is kinda nice. I actually...

I don't relate dues to prestige. What does the general public know about your Lodge's dues prices anyway? On the line of thinking, the local country club should be prestigious. It's not. Most of the members are well off financially (or at least they want you to think they are), but they are the...

I avoid Facebook. I know a lot of people use it. I prefer not to. As for creating a group and keeping it secret, that, to me, defeats the purpose of a Lodge web site. The main purpose of a Lodge web site, I believe, is to get as much information about your Lodge activities to as many people as...

We started a web site earlier this year. It has gone over very well. When myself and a couple of other younger members (I'm not really a "younger" member, but by comparison to the average I am) brought it up, I figured the idea wouldn't be well received. It really was. The web master gives a...

Apparently, that is the story off CBS that aired a while back that I never saw. What can I say, I'm slow! o_O

Here may be one of the best Youtube videos I have seen about Masonry.

I'm a card holder in the Blue Lodge, Chapter, and Council. Which one do you want? ;)

Excellent posts and excellent points, Brother Glenn. Along the same lines, I recently took our Lodge's newest 18-year-old EA to our Chapter and Council Group Picnic. There were more than a dozen current and past Grand heads of various bodies in attendance. I introduced him around to all those...

I agree with everything Jamie Guinn says. This ties into the theme to which I subscribe: We don't need to be making accommodations to attract today's youth; either they want to be Masons, or they don't. Granted, young men today who want to be a part of what Masonry historically is are few and...