Category: Community
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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…
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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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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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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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Do Unto Others
We need to “love our neighbors” and find ways to demonstrate both individually and collectively our commitment to “The Golden Rule.” While Jesus Christ famously shared the Golden Rule in his “Sermon on the Mount,” the golden rule is an ethic of reciprocity which has support within other religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions outside of…