Tag: healourculture
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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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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…
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Episode 2: Why “Heal Our Culture?”
In this heartfelt second episode of the “Heal Our Culture” podcast, Wes Fryer delves into the critical need to heal our culture amidst today’s polarized climate. As a middle school STEM and media literacy teacher, Wes emphasizes the importance of becoming “culture healers” instead of “culture warriors.” Through three personal stories, he illustrates the power…