Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons
Lodge leaders can brainstorm ideas to make the lodge experience more interesting, but if you don’t ask as many brothers as possible what they might like, you may not accomplish what you set out to do. As part of our Lodge planning process, we passed out note cards at...
Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons
In February 1963, Past Grand Master of Indiana Dwight L. Smith published an essay entitled Whither Are We Traveling? He begins by declaring there is no shortage of Masonic leaders complaining of lodge membership falling off or poor attendance at lodge meetings. He...
Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons
The Masonic Fraternity with all its various organizations bestows a lot of titles. Most, who receive these titles, along with the fancy headgear, jewels, medals, and other emblems of rank that come with them, carry their titles with pride and have distinguished...
Leadership Blog, Leadership Lessons, Legacy
If you visit any Masonic lodge you will find pictures of all the Past Masters prominently displayed in the anteroom. In my lodge, you will see pictures that date to the lodge’s beginning in 1803. I’ve looked at them numerous times but it wasn’t until recently that I...