Show Notes
A lodge can survive bad years, but only if brothers are willing to tell the truth about what happened and do the work to rebuild. We sit down for a long overdue catch-up and unpack what the last year has looked like across Florida Freemasonry: the fallout that made some brothers go quiet, the efforts to restore peace and harmony, and the real-world questions lodges face when attendance drops and leadership gets tested. We get specific about lodge mechanics, not theory. We talk about Turkey C...
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