HeyJaredSquare Thoughts
Square Thoughts explores the tension between tradition and progress, helping Masons lead with clarity, purpose, and just the right amount of rebellion.
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Somebody Has to Sweep the Floor (opens the original)
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“Holler when you start talking symbolism and important tenets of Masonry, not just the cost of joining.”A brother left that comment on one of my videos and unfollowed me on his way out. My page, he said, had turned into the same video five hundred different ways, all of it about dues, which he called the most superficial part of the Craft. Masonry is the experience, the brotherhood, the knowledge handed down. Not how big a check you cut every year. He wished me well, and I believe he meant it.A
Part Six Did Not Exist When You Bought the Book (opens the original)
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When Square Thoughts: A Field Guide to Masonic Renewal went out the first time, it ended at Chapter 14.That felt complete at the time. I had the diagnosis and I had the three paths, and I thought that was the whole job. Then I spent a year inside the Lodge Vitality Index research, sat through a few dozen conversations with Brothers in lodges I had never visited, and found the hole. The book told you what was wrong with your lodge. It did not tell you what to do on a Tuesday night when you are th
The Vote Was the Easy Part (opens the original)
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I’ve written about parts of this before. But since I’ve been saying rather publicly on social media that Masonic dues in many lodges should probably be five to ten times what they are now, one question has started coming up more and more.Brothers will say, essentially, “Okay. I understand that we need to raise our dues. How do I get the rest of the boys in my lodge to understand that? And once they understand it, how do I get them to actually commit to doing it?”That’s a much harder question tha
Standing Watch While the World Changed (opens the original)
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I’m sitting here this morning, pouring my usual cup of freshly ground, dark roast, black, naturally, and I happened to catch the date on my phone.September 11th.For those of us who were already wearing a uniform when the world decided to just... shift on its axis, this day always carries a very specific, very heavy kind of resonance. Sitting up here in the Upper Peninsula today, looking out, it’s hard not to reflect on just how profoundly different the universe was before that Tuesday morning.Ta
Part 5: Cheap Dues Cost More (opens the original)
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Everybody loves cheap dues until they see who has been paying the difference.In the first four parts of this series, I argued that most American lodges did not simply lose their financial strength when they lost members. We gave much of it away. We froze dues while wages and operating costs climbed, stripped most of the financial weight from joining, and trained ourselves to survive without margin.After publishing those pieces, one thought kept bothering me. I had written a great deal about the
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