Each year, Masonic lodges elect a new Master for the following year. The progressive line of positions leading up to the master’s chair acts as a kind of leadership training, or at least ideally should. Long before someone “assumes the east” and takes over the role, they’re encouraged to build a plan for their year … Continue reading Top-Down and Bottom-Up Leadership
How Masonic communities work and how to improve them Continue reading Masonic Engagement and the Orbit Model
In 2022, secrecy is often thought to be extremely negative; a way to conceal information that ought to come to light. Attitudes about secrecy have changed over centuries though, and it is interesting to consider the balance between society wanting transparency, for example to hold the powerful to account, and also wanting privacy, which requires … Continue reading Secrecy and Personal Control
An update on overall Masonic membership trends and statistics, for 2020. Just the facts, ma’am. Continue reading The Right Size and Future for Masonry (UPDATE)
How changing society, gender roles, and the Great Depression caused fraternal membership to fall apart Continue reading The Decline of Fraternal Ritualism
Why men with troubled father relationships may be particularly drawn to Freemasonry Continue reading Masonry and Fathers
What is expected of a functioning Masonic lodge is going to change in the coming years Continue reading Many Hands Make Light Work?
You might be very powerful, but in the end you’re not getting away with anything Continue reading Accountability, and the Sword of Damocles
Three perspectives on Masonic secrecy. What are the secrets, how do you gain them, and are they useful? Continue reading Perspectives on Masonic Secrets
Despair and hope; COVID-19 accelerates a crisis, and moves us toward refining Freemasonry Continue reading Impatience, Loss of Gravity
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