Are Your Words Consistent with the Art of Rhetoric?
This past week, I read an opinion expressed about a speaker's content at a university’s commencement speech. The writer used the word rhetor. The word rhetor shares the same roots as rhetoric....
Brother Teddy Roosevelt and “The Mark of a Mason”
I am reading a biography of J. Edgar Hoover, who served as Director of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. The book mentions a supposed crisis among young men in the early 1900s. There was a...
Why is Silence Golden? Practicing The Art of Masonic Silence
If you use or read on social media at all, it is hard to ignore some people's accusatory and, sometimes, blatantly unintelligent statements. When I started using social media to disseminate Masonic...
The Mindset of a Simple Soul
WB W.L. Wilmshurst, in his article, The Ceremony of Initiation, Analysis, and Commentary, wrote: “The First-Degree Ceremony used on the reception of a Candidate into the Craft is designed to...
Have You Seen This?
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What if you went to church & nothing was said about God?
A young minister began preparing his first sermon. It was Monday, and he was full of confidence that he could craft a message that would impress the congregation. It was his first church, and he was...
The Principles of Perfect Masonic Practice
I receive a daily email from Built to Lead, an organization that works with high-level executives and corporate teams. This organization believes, among other things, that building teams require the...
The Curious Mason
I, over the years, have become an information junkie. I accumulate data, books, articles, links to articles and websites, and subscribe to several daily email newsletters. In addition, I have saved...
All You Need is Brotherly Love!
The following six human needs were part of a weekly email I received, and I copied it, not knowing how I might use it. What every human being wants and needs To be part of something larger...
Leading With Masonic Values – Truth
Truth, the last of Masonry's three great tenets, is described as a divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. The first lesson we are taught in Masonry is to be good men and true. The...
Mike Clevenger, PM, New England Lodge #4
Mike Clevenger is the originator and facilitator for Masons Lead Better, a personal and leadership development program initiated by the Grand Lodge of Ohio in 2015.
Over the past twenty years, Mike has been delivering the message to the Masonic Fraternity of the value of personal leadership development and the power of creating an organizational culture of effective leaders.
He is a founding partner of the John Maxwell Team an international organization of coaches, trainers and speakers founded by Dr. John C. Maxwell and also a founding partner of The Deeper Path Team founded by Kary Oberbrunner, an international group of coaches who help individuals find their true passion in life and create a path to achieve it. Mike has served on the Shriners Leadership Development Team since 2005.
Mike is a Past Master of New England Lodge No. 4, F&AM Worthington, Ohio, Past Potentate of Aladdin Shriners in Columbus, Ohio, a member of the York and Scottish Rite bodies, Order of Eastern Star and a senior DeMolay. He has been married to his wife Luanne for 46 years and has a son Wade, who lives in Annapolis Maryland with his lady Chelsea and their daughters Etta Shea & Cameron.
Contact Mike: mike@masonsleadbetter.com.