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Update 1 March 2026
Wes Fryer in Charlotte shares a Heal Our Culture update focused on maintaining hope through community and wise voices, including a choir concert and Black History Month sermons he posted online. He discusses the U.S. attack in Iran that reportedly killed Iran’s supreme leader, warns about misinformation, and demonstrates an AI fact-checking “super prompt” by…
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Shame On Kansas
This is a good reason to not relocate to Kansas or other rabidly red states today. Imagine waking up and learning your state legislature has just invalidated your drivers license and official identity because of your gender? The law bars any “sex” listing on driver’s licenses and birth certificates other than the one assigned at…
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Ep 4: Cairo and Democracy’s Fragility
Wes Fryer records episode four of the Heal Our Culture podcast from Charlotte, North Carolina on February 15, 2026, framing it as a “letter to the future” for his unborn grandchildren. He shares a story from a November 2017 trip to Cairo, Egypt to speak at the EduForum conference, including visiting the pyramids, the Sphinx,…
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Whiteness and Racism
Tomorrow we’re going with our church to Charleston, South Carolina, to visit the International African American Museum. Shelly and I have lived here in Charlotte for 3.5 years, and have wanted to visit this museum for a long time. Particularly in this political moment, it seems especially important to both visit and support museums like…
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Reclaiming Our News Feeds
To heal our culture, we need to reclaim our news feeds and collaborate to reinvent social media. The loss of many local newspapers, combined with the tendency for our “Big Tech” social media news feeds to polarize and isolate us, have produced a bitter harvest. We can and must do better. This evening I participated…
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Faith, Genocide, and Silence
This evening, I had the opportunity to attend a powerful Zoom session hosted by Rev. Dr. Ben Boswell, pastor of Collective Liberation Church here in Charlotte, North Carolina. The featured speaker was Rev. Dr. Rodney Sadler, who many in our community may remember from his sermon during Black History Month at our own church, Caldwell…
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Frederick Douglass on White Evangelicals
Multiple Christian denominations have notable and lamentable histories of “getting it wrong, BIG TIME” when it comes to interpreting and applying the Scriptures of the Holy Bible. This is an outstanding article in Christianity Today, and an important history lesson to consider today on Juneteenth, as many profess a false gospel of “Christian Nationalism,” which…
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Belafonte and the Undertow
I have started to read “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War” by Jeff Sharlet: The book opens with a touching and detailed portrait of Harry Belafonte, who I will admit I have not known a lot about previously. Belafonte was a good friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and pivotal to the…
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Healing the Broken Narrative
In this political moment of triumph as well as “barn burning” for the political far right in the United States, I am wondering how those of us with more progressive, liberal hearts are going to articulate a compelling narrative, “tell a different story,” to move our country and our world away from the precipice of…
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Trust and Democracy
Great keynote presentation by Jennifer Nadel of “Compassion in Politics” in the UK in today’s “Compassionate Action Conference.” We have a REAL crisis today worldwide, so many people do not believe in / do not support democracy. Autocracy is on the rise. Corruption is being normalized. “Trust is democracy’s oxygen, and we are running out…
