For Building Social Capital, There’s No Place Like Lodge
Groups like the Masons offer a way to strengthen community, combat loneliness, fight polarization, and maybe even save democracy.
FROM MISSOURI TO THE WORLD
DEMOLAY’S ENDURING LESSONS HAVE A GLOBAL REACH
WHERE IS DEMOLAY TODAY AND WHEN WAS IT ESTABLISHED?
See the year each country opened its first DeMolay chapter. Information sourced from DeMolay International.
SUPPORT FOR MASONIC YOUTH
A recent survey by the Masons of California Youth Orders Committee shows the great support California Masons are giving to Masonic youth statewide! Of the 269 lodges that responded,
- 67% have children or other young relatives who belong to a Masonic youth order
- 60% invite Masonic youth to lodge functions
- 48% engage, support, or sponsor a DeMolay chapter
- 46% conduct a lodge program for Youth Orders Month every March
- 46% provide financial support for Masonic youth
If you want to get involved with DeMolay, or any of our youth orders, visit Masons4Youth.org
More from this issue:
In ‘Join or Die,’ a Powerful Case for Group Think
The new documentary Join or Die revisits a seminal text of contemporary social theory—and makes a powerful case for connection.
At a Masonic Funeral, Belonging to the Beyond
The Masonic funeral rite unites Masons and their loved ones in a shared community of symbolism and fraternity.