I view our emergence from the pandemic as the perfect opportunity to reset our Lodges. In Washington we were unable to meet for well over a year, and as such, to my mind, all of the bad old habits and questionable practices that developed over decades were swept away.
This is the absolutely perfect time for Freemasonry to begin fresh again, to walk away from all of those bad habits, and to improve itself.
@Cameron, while I completely agree, in our case in the Netherlands, the pandemic has sown quite some division amongst the Brethren. It is a time to take stock of our identity, the core of what the all-encompassing goals of freemasonry and more forwards as opposed to maintaining the status quo.
We too have seen some level of division and discord between Brothers over the response to the pandemic, but it seems to have been relatively minor. I believe that in Washington almost all of our Lodges have been able to agree to reasonable ways of dealing with these restrictions, with only a couple of notable exceptions where arguments continue.
I view our emergence from the pandemic as the perfect opportunity to reset our Lodges. In Washington we were unable to meet for well over a year, and as such, to my mind, all of the bad old habits and questionable practices that developed over decades were swept away.
This is the absolutely perfect time for Freemasonry to begin fresh again, to walk away from all of those bad habits, and to improve itself.
I sincerely hope that the opportunity is seized.
@Cameron, while I completely agree, in our case in the Netherlands, the pandemic has sown quite some division amongst the Brethren. It is a time to take stock of our identity, the core of what the all-encompassing goals of freemasonry and more forwards as opposed to maintaining the status quo.
We too have seen some level of division and discord between Brothers over the response to the pandemic, but it seems to have been relatively minor. I believe that in Washington almost all of our Lodges have been able to agree to reasonable ways of dealing with these restrictions, with only a couple of notable exceptions where arguments continue.