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Everything Old Becomes New Again Everything Old Becomes New Again While “old” issues and topics continue to be examined by members our Craft today in some Especially Issues In circles as if they were “new” issues Freemasonry facing Freemasonry, we easily find that in 1963 the same issues existed. had a wonderful couple We see them addressed again at a of days at the 2007, I[59th Session] Midwest Masonic education conference just Conference on Masonic seven years ago in 2007, and they Education in Evansville, continue to be written about and Indiana this weekend. Grand Masters, Past Grand Christopher Hodapp remain topics of discussions Masters, education officers on many Internet sites and and others interested in Masonic education Masonic Podcasts. throughout the region gathered for this annual program to discuss the nuts and bolts This article looks at both instances of programs used in their jurisdictions. and the many questions yet to be I was honored to be asked to participate in answered for the good of the order the afternoon session, moderated by brother Chad Simpson, Asst. Grand Secretary of Ohio. about membership, retention, Because so-called Traditional Observance Masonic education, practices (TO) and European Concept l(EC) lodges are straying from the “traditional path,” gaining in popularity across the country, Chad brought a group of us together who are and the uniqueness of the involved in these lodges to explain and Fraternity itself. demystify them, as well as to debunk some of the misconceptions around them. The others on the panel were: - Dennis Chornenky of Academia Lodge No. 847 in California, spoke about Traditional Observance lodges and the Masonic Restoration Foundation (MRF). he also gave a brief explanation of California's Masonic Formation Certification program. 1 _ Robert Tomlinson, PGM of Kansas and greater involvement of EAs and FCs. These Master of Inner Quest Lodge No.456 spoke lodges are smaller - intentionally so - but about their strict interpretation of the T.O. stress regular involvement instead of passive concept. card-carrying members who never show up. - I explained the differences between What I find interesting is that the Allied Traditional Observance and European Masonic Degree chapters are patterned on Concept lodges, and our desire at Lodge just this kind of model. And the AMD is the Vitruvian No. 767 in Indianapolis to create fastest growing appendant body in the US. our own model of a formal lodge, with a AMD is filling a need with its small chapter greater concentration on the festive board size and concentration on education, and Masonic education, as opposed to the participation, and the feast. stricter T.O. formats and ceremonies. Neither AMD nor TO/EC lodges are some - Joey Skyles of Kansas gave an outstanding magic bullet to "fix" Freemasonry. They are presentation on generational trends and why probably not the future of American the WWII generation, the Baby Boomers, Gen Freemasonry. But they represent the 21st X, Gen Y and the Millennials believe, say and century inklings of what Masonry has done do what they do. historically since its modern beginnings in 1717. - Mark Tabbert, Director of Collections for the George Washington Masonic National Masonry has changed like clockwork every Memorial Museum in Alexandria, Virginia 25-30 years to suit the needs and desires of finished up the session with an historical the society in which it resides, and the men overview that magically seemed to wrap up who join it - until 1970, when it stopped. all of our presentations, even if we didn't all Because Masonry froze in its post-WWII collaborate ahead of time. model and failed to make changes 30 years later, we now sit here suffering from six There have been situations across the decades of hardening of the arteries. That's country when Grand Masters [and other no one's fault - the WWII generation has kept brothers as well) have been unnerved, put off this fraternity alive and running when the or downright spooked by the notion of TO/EC Vietnam-era men refused to join. We owe lodges, claiming them to be elitist, exclusive them our gratitude and respect. But we have or otherwise discriminatory to the American to make twice as many changes today as customs of Freemasonry (Terry Tilton used evolution would have naturally done before. the word "antithetical," which I disagree with). These lodges are satisfying a growing niche that NEEDS to be satisfied, of men who are Those who have attended them know this is completely turned off by the 1950s model far from the truth. But what is clear is that an lodge of meeting for a bologna sandwich, admittedly small - but growing - population opening, reading the minutes, paying the bills within the fraternity is looking for a more and going home by 8:00. These smaller lodges formal lodge and educational lodge treat the whole evening as lodge night and experience, a more convivial festive board, their members want their evening to be slower degree advancement, realistic dues, special. 2 Freemasonry is supposed to be anything but Whether newly raised Masons were ordinary, but the last five decades have solicited, directly or indirectly, to concentrated on membership and the petition for the degrees. grinding out of the work to keep numbers up. Why the disinterested Mason became The new men knocking on our lodge doors disinterested. know more about us than most of our What the Brother expected and hoped members do, and they are seeking the to find in Masonry; whether he found legendary lodges of our illustrious it. forefathers. If what we give them is a flat, dull Whether the Brother has been experience and lodges that do not serve the disappointed or disillusioned in his needs of their active members, they won't be Masonic experience, and if so, in what back. And they'll be the worst anti-Masonic manner. salesmen ever created – not on mythical anti- Whether the officers of the lodge "got religious grounds, but by warning off other through" to him when the degrees men because Freemasonry wasted their time, were conferred. their money and their enthusiasm. Whether his intelligence was insulted by the manner in which the ritualistic As far as my experience is concerned, the work was presented. biggest success of TO and EC lodges has not Whether the degrees of Symbolic been a stream of enthusiastic members Freemasonry impress him as flooding into them. The biggest success has challenging, or meaningless, or been visitors or just interested bystanders somewhere in between. who have read about them taking the ideas Whether the officers and Brethren from these lodges and making positive conferred the degrees upon him and changes in their home lodges. These brethren then showed no further interest in are simply doing what every generation of him except at dues paying time. Masons have done until the 1970s - they are Whether he is bored by our ritualistic remaking Masonry to suit their needs and work or by the meetings of his lodge desires. in general, and why. The last Midwest Conference held in Does he feel that Freemasonry has Indianapolis was in 1967. Dwight Smith, PGM become anachronistic; i.e., something addressed the group. In his talk, he asked a that does not belong to the times in flurry of questions we still have not answered which we live? 40 years later: Has he ever been called upon to do anything for his lodge - anything that Why have Masons lost interest in was really challenging, that is? Masonry? The way to find out is for a Would he enjoy performing a service Mason who used to be disinterested for his lodge? - What can his lodge do to ask a Mason who still has no to regain his interest? interest. What does he think about the quality What else can we learn if we have the of Masonic membership, particularly courage to ask the questions? in his own lodge? 3 What does he think of the quality of directing as a commercial filmmaker. He has written for leadership in his lodge? - Does he feel corporate and non-profit programs, and his voice has appeared in many television and radio commercials. His comfortable when attending a newest book, "Deciphering the Lost Symbol," was meeting of his lodge? published in 2010. He is a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Does he have anything in common Freemason, and he lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. with the membership? - Does his lodge provide a source of fellowship that is satisfying? In his mind, what kind of image does Freemasonry have? What is the image of Freemasonry in the circle of his acquaintance? If the public image of Freemasonry in his circle of acquaintance is good, why is it good" If poor, why is it poor? What does Freemasonry mean to him? If it should cease to be of any force in his community and nation, would he miss it? Is he proud to be a Mason? The time is long past for us to have answers to these questions and more. Maybe by the time it's in Indianapolis again, we will have some. Source: Christopher Hodapp, Midwest Conference on Masonic Education 2007, http://freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/04/m idwest-conference-on-masonic-education.html WHO IS CHRISTOPHER HODAPP? Christopher L. Hodapp is the former editor of the "Journal of The Masonic Society." He is the author of the best-selling "Freemasons For Dummies," and "Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C." He is the co-author with Alice Von Kannon of "The Templar Code For Dummies" and "Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies For Dummies." He has appeared on the History and Discovery channels on the subject of The Wisdom of Freemasonry, its role in the founding of the United States and the building of Washington D.C.
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