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BRYCE ON NONPROFITS What can be done to rebuild declining nonprofit institutions? Click for AUDIO VERSION. To use this segment in a Radio broadcast or Podcast, send Tim a request. When I travel around town these days, I often run into old friends and neighbors who know my background regarding nonprofit organizations (I served on […]

I am a master mason that has a past master ring from my grandfather. Is it inappropriate for me to wear it as a tribute to my Masonic family history? I

I haven’t said much on the subject of membership in Freemasonry (in general) and in the United States in particular, for some time. But with the buzz and interest in the last few posts (Freemasonry Is Dying, Bait & Switch, I Quit and Masonic Anti-Intellectualism A Crying Shame), I thought it necessary to pen a few thoughts […]

Hello, I have friends that pledged Black greek sororities while in college and then joined OES after. I did not pledge in college, but am still interested

“To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep, No more;” The articles by Brothers Sean Kennedy and Stephen Dafoe regarding the […]

Masonic  researcher, author, speaker, video producer, journalist and historian Stephen Dafoe has chronicled the decline of American Freemasonry for years. His research has been published in The Scottish Rite Journal, Heredom (the Transactions of the Scottish Rite Research Society), Templar History Magazine, Knight Templar Magazine, The Fourth Part Of A Circle, Masonic Magazine and The Masonic […]

Once you can get yourself to accept the fact that Freemasonry is Dying, then perhaps some progress can be made in downsizing, consolidating, making Appendant Bodies stand on their own, raising dues significantly and other acts of resuscitation. Terminally ill patients require drastic and sometimes untried measures to save them. What’s that you say? You […]

Perhaps you have already read Brother Lance Kennedy’s Ten Propositions For Texas Freemasonry. Maybe you would like to read them again. And just maybe this is the first time you have seen them. Whatever the case may be we will tell you what is new and that is the video above where we had a […]

Hi! My father was a Mason and very proud of this. Although, he never discussed the Masons, his pride was clear in his multiple rings, tie clip, and a necklace

But I am very poor man

Hello! I have not attended Lodge since 2007, for countless personal reasons. But I have recently become interested again. My former wife and I divorced

My grandfather is a 32nd degree master masonry. East Liverpool Ohio. I would really like to know more and get involved thank you for your time and consideratio

Are there benefits to being a granddaughter of a 32nd degree Mason of the Scottish rite?

Do they believe in God or Jesus? Are do they believe in something or someone different

Hello! One of my relatives works in a Freemason retirement home despite not being one himself. I've been interested in joining for a while, especially

Could use your help please? Both of my uncles (my dad's brothers) were Mason's. My father is deceased & I could use some direction on how can I find out

My grandfather, Edward F. Raschen Jr., birth date May 14, 1918, was a 33rd degree Grand Master Mason. I found his papers honoring him as such. I was told

What does my great grandfather's first name mean, Hirem, last name -white, anything to do with masonry? and he was a 33rd degree mason, what details does

I was a past master at 2 different lodges south carolina and north carolina. I also was given a Past Master's pin. What should happen two these items when

How do Freemasons feel about cheating? I am soon to be 18 I live in south east Texas and I plan on going to work on the tug boats. I was just wandering