Update: March 13, 2026

Video available on Substack and YouTube.

On March 13, 2026 in Charlotte, North Carolina, Wes Fryer shares a second video-style update for the Heal Our Culture Project, urging viewers to be “culture healers” and describing recent sources of hope through Zoom collaborations, the Thrive United for Democracy and Global Action conference recordings, and local work tied to the Charlotte Remembrance Project and Equal Justice Initiative memorial markers. He highlights the free Jesuit meditation app/site Pray As You Go on its 20th anniversary, then condemns the U.S.-initiated war with Iran as illegal and harmful to civilians, referencing a Resist and Heal Substack post and calling for congressional checks on presidential power. He describes using AI (Claude, Gemini) to craft kinder responses to polarizing Facebook comments, reflects on visiting the Lansford Canal and the burned Tivoli plantation as “hard history,” and recommends resources on “un-Christian nationalism,” including Kate Bowler’s podcast episode, the documentary God and Country, and Tim Alberta’s book.

00:00 Welcome and agenda

02:00 Finding hope and community

05:41 Praise as you go

08:27 War in Iran concerns

11:48 Resist and Heal post

17:03 AI for kinder replies

18:53 Hard history at Tivoli

21:39 Unchristian nationalism resources

25:19 Advocacy links and closing

Referenced links:

1. Presentation / video slides (includes links)
2. Thrive: United for Democracy and Global Action (Conference March 4-5, 2026)
3. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Remembrance Project
4. Pray As You Go – 20th Anniversary
5. “Resist and Heal” Substack
6. Illegal War with Iran is an Immoral Dumpster Fire (Resist and Heal, 12 March 2026)
7. Claude AI
8. Exploring Landsford Canal and Tivoli Plantation History (William Richardson Davie) (Learning Signs, 7 March 2026)
9. The New Shape of American Religion with Ross Douthat and Molly Worthen (Kate Bowler, Everything Happens Podcast, 3 March 2026)
10. God and Country (2024 documentary)
11. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta (2023)
12. News with Wes Fryer
13. Join me (Wes Fryer) in advocacy