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This past week's commentaries by Steve Schmidt from The Warning with Steve Schmidt - March 15, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
A different way to make our concerns visible to our elected officials and others: Let's flood their social media by Engaged Defenders 4 Democracy from Engaged Defenders 4 Democracy...
I Asked Aiden: Analyze the Teachings of Jesus by Anchor Light Publications - March 15, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Costs and Benefits from the New Energy Crisis by Paul Krugman from Paul Krugman - March 15, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
In the lead up to the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada last month, 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar spoke to ChatGPT about her feelings of isolation and an increasing obsess...
Sunday Musings by Diana Butler Bass from The Cottage - March 14, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Sunday thought: Who’s Winning from Trump’s War? Follow the Money by Robert Reich - March 15, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
The future isn't what it used to be by Noahpinion - March 15, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
A Tale of Two Tabithas by from Marginalia with Beth Allison Barr - March 14, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
March 14, 2026 by Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American - March 14, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Attacking the First Amendment on Repeat by Joyce Vance from Civil Discourse - March 14, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Freedom Over Fascism: Democracy Warnings and Actions | March 14, 2026 by Freedom Over Fascism - March 14, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
AI is coming for “intelligence” itself, to our detriment by Shay Stewart-Bouley from Shay’s Cogitations:A Detour From Black Girl in Maine - March 14, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #Fe...
On What We Are Permitted to Notice by Mike Brock from Notes from the Circus - March 14, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
The Strait, the Strike, and the Subscription by Xplisset from Xplisset Voice of America - March 14, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Slotkin's Weekly Intel Briefing: War in Iran, Tornadoes in SW Michigan, and Kristi Noem Departure by Senator Elissa Slotkin from Senator Elissa Slotkin - March 14, 2026#Substack #O...
Known as the ‘Forbidden Island’ due to strict military control, this ancient coral outcrop processes 90 percent of Iran’s crude exports while guarding millennia of human history. B...
How The United States Loses the Iran War and Our National Security...with Trita Parsi by THE LEFT HOOK - March 14, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
AU Anti-Tank Mode ACTIVATED by Rights To Ricky Sanchez | Andrew Unterberger - March 14, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
🚨 Emergency Voter Documentation Guide Version 2.0 Is Live by Glass Empires By W. A. Lawrence - March 14, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Books, Freedom, and Captivity Maksym Butkevych, the Ukrainian human rights activist, was held in Russian captivity for more than two years. I had the …
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 …
In which I try to answer your questions about modern politics.... From Politics Chat, March 12, 2026 The live streamed version is available here: https://www.youtube.com/live/-csfT...
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 vi...
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” an...
The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed and ordered their immediate removal. A judge on Friday …
Amen to this.“The American people should demand a policy that puts human life and the rule of law above the president’s thirst for war. Iran’s future must be deci...
I asked five Iranian-American thought leaders what corporate media isn't telling us about this war—here's what they told me After promising to serve …
I came across a maxim many years ago in a blog post written by Chris Dixon, a startup guy who is now a partner with Andreessen Horowitz, the Silicon …
In In 2016, staff at both the U.S. and Canadian embassies in Cuba started reporting a host of unusual physical symptoms: severe headaches, nausea, …
The U.S. Air Force Academy’s Board of Visitors serves as a formal oversight body created by Congress to examine how the Academy operates and how …
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state lawmakers were within their rights when they declined to issue press passes to three conservative media figures, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a ...
As more ChatGPT users migrate to Claude, Anthropic appears to be making the switch easier. Less than a week ago, the company quietly made Memory …
A simple migration that started late at night The first decision that increased the risk The warning sign nobody expected The cleanup that triggered the …
The ferocity of U.S. and Israeli attacks has raised questions about whether the two countries are even attempting to minimize civilian casualties. Since the United States and Israe...
And the defense of democracy A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide …
How AI Can Help Teachers Plan With Purpose, Teach With Personality, and Create Space for Students to Do the Same It’s not just that I don’t have time. …
New reporting exposes a closed-door meeting where Trump allies and election deniers plotted a “national emergency” plan to influence the 2026 …
In the latest episode of The Home Front Podcast, I sat down with Professor Katherine Lutz, an esteemed cultural anthropologist and co-founder of the …
$30,000 for the man who tapped into DJI’s robot network. On Valentine’s Day, I brought you a story that’s since made headlines all around the world: How one man, just trying to ste...
In January, after TikTok announced a deal to transfer its US operations, Apple began blocking people in the US from downloading or updating ByteDance …
Today Shelly and I returned to Landsford Canal State Park in South Carolina, which is about an hour drive from where we live in Charlotte, NC. I took a few photos (26) on our hike ...
Today Shelly and I returned to Landsford Canal State Park in South Carolina, which is about an hour drive from where we live in Charlotte, NC. I took a few photos (26) on our hike ...
This school year, I’m unable to use SpinTheWheel.io, a random animal selector I’d been using for one of my favorite middle school creature-design projects. Last spring ...
This school year, I’m unable to use SpinTheWheel.io, a random animal selector I’d been using for one of my favorite middle school creature-design projects. Last spring ...
Happy Friday. I can’t say it’s a Good Friday, because not only is this not Easter weekend, yet another war (this time in Iran) is raging in our world and as a citizen o...
Welcome to episode 370 (“AI Frontier Geopolitics”) of the EdTech Situation Room from March 4, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jas...
The heresy of the “un-Christian Nationalism” messages preached and professed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are LIES and an abomination before the LORD.“A c...
Several years ago, when Shelly and I were working and teaching at Casady School in Oklahoma City, Father Tim Sean Youmans shared the television series “The Chosen” with...
We are living in surreal times, and our news feeds can be both perilous and important to watch. I shared a video update this evening for in which I attempted to process some of wh...
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 ...
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 ...
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 a...
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 a...
In notable news today, the United States has launched an another illegal war, this time against the nation of Iran. As is the case with all issues of foreign policy, there’s ...
This would seem crazy in an earlier era, but today almost anything could happen with our current executive branch leadership.Hegseth met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday ...
by Pat Rosa and Freda Zeh RosenRecently, In the Know Live hosted Joyce Vance, former US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama and one of our nation’s most respected v...
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In my 55 years of life on our planet and 32 years as a professional educator and teacher, I’ve shared a lot of stories and more than a few presentations. This evening, I beli...
On Saturday, February 7, 2026, Indivisible Charlotte celebrated our ninth anniversary! This event had to be rescheduled because of North Carolina winter weather, but our celebratio...
I shared this as a comment on one of my Academy classmate’s Facebook pages, who is arguing that anyone who compares the United States today to Nazi Germany is an idiot:I agre...
Here is a “Mike Caulfield AI superprompt fact check” for a recent FB post about a British citizen who was detained for six weeks in the United States by CBP / US Custom...
On behalf of our organizing team for the upcoming March 4-5, 2026 online conference, “Thrive: United for Democracy and Global Action,” I invite you to join these import...
One of the most common problems I see in student and creator videos alike is inconsistent audio. You shoot a clip facing the camera, then turn around to capture something else R...
One of the most common problems I see in student and creator videos alike is inconsistent audio. You shoot a clip facing the camera, then turn around to capture something else — an...
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley FacilityHundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at a...
What we are witnessing in America is technofascism. This is fascism partnered with advanced surveillance technologies. And this is what we see playing out in Minneapolis in real ti...
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 grandchild...
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 unbor...
Podcasts are coming for books:Once the internet started, yes, you could go and research online, discover the history of the Tudors or whatever, but you’d probably spend ages....
Welcome to episode 369 (“Dogpile and Dark Arts”) of the EdTech Situation Room from February 11, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. J...
My spouse and I are big Lord of the Rings as well as Harry Potter fans. We love the books and we love the movies. Over Christmas break I started re-reading the Harry Potter book se...
My spouse and I are big Lord of the Rings as well as Harry Potter fans. We love the books and we love the movies. Over Christmas break I started re-reading the Harry Potter book se...
The Washington Post fired 300 journalists or 30% of its staff this past week. Then the CEO since 2024, Will Lewis (the architect of these mass layoffs) abruptly resigned.News journ...
Do you know and follow ?Until recently I did not, but I do now and I recommend you follow her as well.Subscribe nowJoyce is the author of “Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual...
Watch and listen to this recording of Indivisible Charlotte's 'In the Know Live' webinar from February 3, 2026 over Zoom, featuring Joyce Vance, former U.S. Attorney and esteemed l...
Welcome to episode 368 (“The OpenClaw Warning”) of the EdTech Situation Room from February 4, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jas...
Outstanding news headline update from Kathryn in Raleigh-Durham, and their Indivisible resistance group. This is an example of a substacker I am so glad I follow.Her comments about...
Amen to this call for action during Black History Month:“The lesson is clear and non-negotiable: we must never confuse what is legal with what is just. Because progress has n...
Another podcast that may become required listening for my “Conspiracies and Culture Wars” mini-course. 4Chan culture is now mainstream.[PODCAST] Online Culture Is the W...
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Recently, In the Know Live conducted an interview with Bob Phillips and Tyler Daye of Common Cause North Carolina. (Part 1 and Part 2) Common Cause is a nonpartisan, grassroots or...
In this PART 2 episode of Indivisible Charlotte’s ‘In the Know Live’ podcast, members of our Research Team continue the conversation on voter suppression with Bob...
Join Indivisible Charlotte for an in-depth discussion on voter suppression with Bob Phillips and Tyler Daye of Common Cause, North Carolina. Learn about current attacks on voting r...
The national and international events of the past several weeks have been positively dizzying and even disorienting. As I write this on January 27, 2026, we (as a nation) are recov...
The national and international events of the past several weeks have been positively dizzying and even disorienting. As I write this on January 27, 2026, we (as a nation) are recov...
It is both shocking and depressing to see how some right wing propaganda media sources (masquerading as news sources, like Fox) portray the murder of our fellow citizens like Alex ...
It’s easy to feel helpless when looking at the the weakening of liberal democracy in our country. But in the latest episode of the Indivisible Charlotte podcast, guest Chris ...
I want to start this post by acknowledging that “the playbook of resistance” has been written by many of our indigenous brothers and sisters, and brothers and sisters w...
We now have government death squads in the United States. Will members of Congress please start demonstrating courage, and immediately impeach and convict our sitting President?! U...
Welcome to episode 367 (“Vibe Coding With Claude”) of the EdTech Situation Room from January 21, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. ...
My comment today on one of my former middle school teacher’s Facebook pages, to a post that suggested DJT is pursuing a wise path in attempting to seize Greenland:Mrs. [NAME]...
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In The Know: LIVE with Joyce Vance (on IndivisibleCLT.org)Please join us for an inspiring discussion with Joyce Vance, author of Giving Up is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping Dem...
This “explainer video” from Heather Cox Richardson yesterday is outstanding, I finished watching it this evening. Highly recommended.https://youtu.be/DY6XiPY9WTEShe hig...
As a former Fulbright scholar who studied Latin American security policy in Mexico I have some important thoughts and “big feelings” about these topics.We are witnessin...
On a cold winter evening, there’s nothing quite like the warm, spiced aroma of baking apples and cinnamon wafting through your home. An apple crisp is just the thing to not o...
My comment today on a Facebook post by one of our friends and former neighbors in Oklahoma City:I do not know anyone who is progressive today and wants to “dispense with law ...
On Sunday, January 11, 2026, thousands of Charlotte residents and neighbors gathered in First Ward Park uptown for the “ICE Out for Good” protest rally and march, spons...
This is a video I recorded this morning before school as a Facebook Live video. I edited it a little in Descript (making two minor corrections) and added subtitles. It’s also...
Please join us and share this widely.Register via MobilizeWednesday, January 7th, an American citizen was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnes...
Welcome to episode 366 (“10 Year Anniversary”) of the EdTech Situation Room from January 7, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason...
It’s 2026 and media literacy is more important than ever. Here a few links to some recent blog posts, podcasts and videos I’ve shared and found online worth your time a...
This is an audio recording by Rachel Fryer recorded in September 2012, when she was 9 years old. This is the earliest recording I know of when Rachel mentions the possibility of at...
Welcome to episode 365 (“Nano Banana Pro Era”) of the EdTech Situation Room from December 29, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jas...
My New Year’s Day morning meditation podcast supplement today was: “Best Of: How Spending Time In Nature Helps Our Health” by #NPR1A. This podcast episode from NPR’s Studio 1A f...
This is a narrated video version of a presentation I shared on December 26, 2025, at Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community in Manhattan, Kansas. In addition to my slides, additiona...
In this episode of Indivisible Charlotte's “In the Know Live,” founding director Carolyn Eberly and research coordinator Marshal Auron welcome Chris Armitage from The E...
Sometimes my social media feeds in Flipboard on my iPad bring serendipitous links to my attention, and that was the case early yesterday morning with this video from South Iceland ...
In this episode of the Confronting Whiteness podcast, Rev. Dr. Ben Boswell speaks with Rev. Dr. Dick Hester, a retired professor and therapist with a rich history of activism and o...
A teacher friend in Oklahoma sent me the following video clip today. Her question to me was, “How did the student code this in Scratch?” Apparently the student did NOT ...
A teacher friend in Oklahoma sent me the following video clip, which I converted to an animated GIF via Adobe. Her question to me was, “How did the student code this in Scrat...
For many years (at least six for me) we’ve heard warnings about “deep fake” videos and the ways artificial intelligence / AI platforms will accelerate the dissemi...
For many years (at least six for me) we’ve heard warnings about “deep fake” videos and the ways artificial intelligence / AI platforms will accelerate the dissemi...
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Welcome to episode 364 (“The Rise of Gemini AI”) of the EdTech Situation Room from December 3, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Ja...
CLAIM: On 20 November 2025, 30,000 students in Charlotte, North Carolina, staged a walkout from school to protest Trump’s ICE immigration raids in the city. FACT CHEC...
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By Galen SmithSeveral health care issues pose significant challenges for the U.S. in general and North Carolina in particular. These challenges relate to Affordable Care Act premiu...
MONEY TALKS.We’re hitting them where it hurts this weekend. We’re calling for a weekend supporting local businesses over corporations.🚫AMAZON🚫🚫T...
I grew up in the 1980s and loved reading “Choose Your Own Adventure” (CYOA) stories. From time to time, as an advocate of “Playing with Media” and “Sh...
This holiday season, we’re invited to shift our habits, rethink our spending, and put our values into action. For five days— from November 28 through December 2— ...
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 year...
This evening I successfully burned two DVDs for the 40th Anniversary of the Mint Hill Historical Society, which is coming up on Saturday. For several years now I’ve been volu...
As a kick-off to the No Kings 2 protest, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum was our featured guest on the October 17th edition of “In the Know Live” and our n...
Information about tomorrow’s Pop-up Protest at Home Depot (including the sign-up link) is available on this Mobilize.us webpage.Subscribe nowFrom the post:Indivisible CLT, Ca...
Over the weekend I successfully completed my eighth vibe-coded project, and I’m really excited about it! It’s called the “AI Cultural Canon,” and it’s basically a Fireb...
Toolkit for Supporting Immigrant NeighborsResisting ICE - CPB ActionsThanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.In 2022, the city of Charlotte ...
Many of you are urgently seeking information and looking for ways to help now that it has been verified that CBP agents are arriving in Charlotte in the next few days. We want you ...
Welcome to episode 363 (“AI Upgrades, Privacy Tradeoffs”) of the EdTech Situation Room from November 12, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This we...
In this episode of the Confronting Whiteness podcast, Rev. Ben Boswell converses with Gail Perry, a Cleveland, Ohio native and daughter of the first black mayor in Ohio. Gail share...
(See part 1 of this series from our September 2025 newsletter.)By Galen Smith and Carrie PhillipsThe “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) was signed into law in July 2025 an...
Reverend Dot Killian shared a sermon today at Caldwell Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, titled “Children of the Resurrection.” She preached on Luke 20:...
Please consider joining me for the 9 week course, “Confronting Whiteness,” starting in January 2026. My spouse and I participated in this transformative course 2 years ...
In this episode of Confronting Whiteness, Rev. Dr. Ben Boswell interviews Rev. Dr. Mel Williams, a seasoned pastor with over 40 years of service. The conversation explores Williams...
In this episode of Confronting Whiteness, Rev. Dr. Ben Boswell interviews Rev. Dr. Mel Williams, a seasoned pastor with over 40 years of service. The conversation explores Williams...
Back in September I wrote about my “DIY Federated Reader” experiment: a Gmail-to-Mastodon bot that turns my newsletter inbox into a public, federated news stream I’m able to ...
For a long time, I’ve wanted a simple way for my students – in this case, my adult Sunday School class participants—to share comments directly on a webpage I’ve made wi...
Welcome to episode 362 (“Browsers Gone Agentic”) of the EdTech Situation Room from Wednesday, October 29, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This w...
Music plays an important part of non-violent, civic protest movements, and our October 18, 2025 “No Kings 2 CLT” event was a case in point.Check out the 24 tracks from ...
In the third episode of the Confronting Whiteness podcast, Rev. Ben Boswell engages in a compelling conversation with Kim Bohannon, a dedicated educator and community leader. Kim, ...
I bring tidings of GREAT joy: After many hours of work this weekend, all 361 episodes of “The EdTech Situation Room” podcast are now available on Substack… AND ar...
Welcome to episode 361 (“AI Workflows for Educators”) of the EdTech Situation Room from October 22, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, D...
Welcome to episode 360 (“Agentic AI Arrives”) of the EdTech Situation Room from October 8, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason ...
Welcome to episode 359 (“Phishing Meets Copilot”) of the EdTech Situation Room from September 24, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr....
Welcome to episode 358 (“Gemini AI Everywhere”) of the EdTech Situation Room from September 3, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Ja...
Welcome to episode 357 (“AI Tinkering Playbook”) of the EdTech Situation Room from August 27, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jas...
Welcome to episode 356 (“Beyond AI Hype”) of the EdTech Situation Room from August 20, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neif...
Welcome to episode 355 (“Protocols Over Platforms”) of the EdTech Situation Room from July 9, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jas...
Welcome to episode 354 (“Beyond the Town Square”) of the EdTech Situation Room from June 25, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jaso...
Welcome to episode 353 (“Chatbots and Safeguards”) of the EdTech Situation Room from June 11, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jas...
Welcome to episode 352 (“AI Slop Tsunami”) of the EdTech Situation Room from May 22, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffe...
Welcome to episode 351 (“AI Sycophancy and Chatbots for Kids”) of the EdTech Situation Room from May 14, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This we...
In the second episode of the Confronting Whiteness podcast, Rev. Dr. Ben Boswell engages in a profound conversation with Tracy Onze, who leads the middle school division at Trinity...
I”m almost finished listening to Tim Alberta‘s FANTASTIC book, “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism,” publis...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRS055nLVkEIn the inaugural episode of the Confronting Whiteness podcast, Rev. Ben Boswell sits down with Wes Fryer, a media literacy and computer s...
In the inaugural episode of the Confronting Whiteness podcast, Rev. Ben Boswell sits down with Wes Fryer, a media literacy and computer science teacher from Charlotte, North Caroli...
I recently created and published a series of shorts for YouTube (videos less than 60 seconds long, all formatted with a portrait (9 x 16) rather than landscape aspect ratio from th...
Today I facilitated the webinar “Vibe Coding with AI” for the MediaEd Club of the Media Education Lab. I mainly shared stories of two of my recent vibe coding projects,...
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 Te...
I (Wes Fryer) created this 3.5 minute story on with Google Gemini’s experimental “Storybook” mode, using the following prompt:Tell an adventure story of the golde...
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 Te...
Back in January of 2025 I used ChatGPT to “vibe code” a project I named “Packet Defender.” This project was and is my attempt to use HTML and JavaScript to ...
For the past couple years as a middle school STEM and media literacy teacher, I’ve LOVED using AI / artificial intelligence tools to create instructional materials for my stu...
This evening I watched YouTube independent journalist Johnny Harris’ outstanding video, “Why the Mormon Church is So Rich,” and it has prompted me to reflect on a...
This is a tragic story on multiple fronts, both for the victim and the accused perpetrator. Homelessness and the terrible state of our mental health system in the United States can...
Subscribe nowIn a clip that is going viral on TikTok, Confronting Whiteness graduate, Dr. Katherine Godby, speaks truth to power to county commissioners about the violence of vote...
Members of our church in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, Caldwell Presbyterian, have been working for many years to address the affordable housing crisis in a novel and courageou...
This morning for my morning meditation, I watched Rev. Ben Boswell‘s sermon at Collective Liberation Church in Charlotte on August 3, 2025, “The Liberating Reality of a...
Happy August 2025 everyone! This 2025-26 academic year I’m going to try and share a monthly “media literacy roundup” like this one. In this edition I’ll sha...
For this year’s 4th of July cookout, I wanted to go beyond your average backyard burger. Don’t get me wrong — I love a simple cheeseburger hot off the grill, but for this hol...
At the start of every Caldwell Presbyterian Church worship service, our leaders share a “land acknowledgment,” remembering and acknowledging the native people and First...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Today’s lunch was an experiment, basically using some of our leftover and available ingredients as we wrap up our time in the mountains at an Airbnb. This was tasty, but would’ve b...
My mother, Angie Fryer, kept meticulous records of every letter I sent home as a cadet at the US Air Force Academy from 30 June 1988 to 27 May 1992. She also kept numerous other re...
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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 ...
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 ad...
"Healing the Broken Narrative" (CC BY 2.0) by Wesley FryerIn this political moment of triumph as well as “barn burning” for the political far right in the United States...
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...
"Trust and Democracy" (CC BY 2.0) by Wesley FryerGreat keynote presentation by Jennifer Nadel of “Compassion in Politics” in the UK in today’s “Compassionat...
My mom, Angie Fryer, was not only a fantastic gourmet cook, but also very concerned about the ways processed foods and the food industry had transformed and continued to transform ...
We need to “love our neighbors” and find ways to demonstrate both individually and collectively our commitment to “The Golden Rule.” While Jesus Christ famo...
Wow, the Substack article, “The Colors Of Her Coat” by Scott Alexander taught me several new things:About the medieval origins of lapis lazuli, ultramarine and the colo...
To “heal our culture,” we need to understand our culture.A few weeks ago, I bought a paper copy of “Lessons from North Carolina: Race, Religion, Tribe, and the Fu...
For the past 10+ years I’ve met with my “spiritual director,” Curt Gruel, every month to discuss how God is working in my life. Curt became a spiritual director t...
Welcome to my (Wes Fryer’s) “Dangerous Dispatch” [VIDEO] for March 4, 2025.In this episode I highlight:Yellowstone Bear HumorSing Sing (2023)NATO and ProtestsPart...
Walter Rhein observes and contends, "Truth is a healing spell.""Truth is a Healing Spell v2" (CC BY 2.0) by Wesley FryerWalter is correct. Our very words can be powerful. Like the ...
My "Dangerous Dispatch" video for February 17, 2025. (17 min)5 Topics:1- Benefits of a "news fast"2- Heather Cox Richardson3- Anne Applebaum article4- Foreign Affairs article5- Blu...
Reflections on the ways in which we each have “multidimensional personalities,” and my experience using the generative AI platform “Notebook LM” this past w...
It’s Inauguration Day in the United States, and 2025 promises to be filled with more polarized news and challenging headlines for citizens everywhere to parse and understand,...
This morning I led our adult ACE Sunday School class at Caldwell Presbyterian Church, as our study of the Book of Acts moved into the 12th Chapter. My lesson plan was to read and d...
This is a comment and reflection I shared on the blog of one of Dean Shareski‘s graduate student’s academic course reflection blog, Allysia Doratti:Mirror, Mirror, On M...
This evening after dinner dad, Rachel and I recorded an audio interview discussing our memories of basic training and our first two years (respectively) at the US Air Force Academy...
This past Sunday, Shelly and I both taught Sunday School lessons at our church in Charlotte, North Carolina: Caldwell Presbyterian Church. I taught the adult lesson for our “...
James Baldwin’s timeless ideas on race, identity, and healing are more relevant today than ever. In this third episode of the "Heal Our Culture" podcast, I (Wes Fryer) discus...
Yesterday I hopped on a Zoom call with Wayne LeFors and Tom Fryer, both 1963 graduates of the US Air Force Academy. Wayne and dad talked, laughed, and told stories together for an ...
In January 2006, Sarah (then age 5) created a quilt with Shelly about hedgehogs for the science fair at Murfee Elementary School in Lubbock, Texas. Sarah was in Shay Troutman’...
This is a 15.5 minute video Shelly’s dad, Carl Ward, created about their family with a lot of archival photos. I found this today as I’ve been doing some updates to thi...
Frequently in the Gospels of the Bible, we hear Jesus call himself, “The Son of Man.” The December 2018 video from The Bible Project, “Why Jesus Called Himself th...
These are my notes from today’s Sunday School lesson and worship service at Caldwell Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina on January 21, 2024. “Praying The Hours” is...
These are some of my notes and “takeaways” from a sermon shared today on January 7, 2024, by Rev. Dorothy J. Killian at Caldwell Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North...
Through the YouVersion Bible app for iPhone, Shelly (my wife) has discovered the “Eyewitness Bible Series” of videos. This morning, on her recommendation, I watched the...
Our adult Sunday School class (ACE) at Caldwell Presbyterian Church is reading and studying the book, “Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End Homelessness” by Kevin Nye. T...
This should be obvious to all people in all modern cultures, but sadly it is not and some groups are working to “turn back the clock. Women are full human beings and should be a...
In early June 2022, I had the privilege to journey with our daughters to the Grandfather Mountain State Park for the first time. We embarked on a three-day, two-night backpacking a...
Yesterday I tested my home backup electric generator for the first time and created a 16.5 minute video about the experience. In this article, I’ll share some of the highligh...
Today Rachel, Shelly and I attended worship at Cavalry Episcopal Church in Front Royal, Virginia. Today is Pentecost, and after the wonderful service the congregation hosted a cele...
This is another ChatGPT 4 “theological and historical coaching” example today, in my continuing quest to better understand the historic roots and contemporary flavors of American C...
It’s January 2, 2023, and large numbers of residents of Asheville, North Carolina have been without water at their homes since Christmas Eve, a little over a week ago. As a C...
A 2X video of my flight this evening from Manhattan, Kansas to Dallas – Fort Worth, featuring the MHK takeoff sequence and the DFW landing sequence just after sunset. T...
I’m wearing the warmest boots I currently own, a pair of Thinsulate hunting boots I bought a few years ago at Academy Sports in Edmond, Oklahoma, in advance of a winter ̶...
Today I facilitated an adult Sunday School class discussion about “Resistance Narratives,” which is the fourth chapter of Susan J. Dunlap’s 2021 book, “Shel...
I created today’s Bible Verse InfoPic using Midjourney, a Generative AI platform,which is an example of artificial intelligence art. “Bible Verse InfoPic (Generativ...
If you happen to be a long-time (or even “one time”) member of First Presbyterian Church of Edmond, Oklahoma, then the videos I’m going to link here may bring you...
This morning Shelly and I planned and recorded a 97 second video, “Lessons from Prison Ministry.” This focuses on our experiences several years ago with a wonderful Okl...
“The day after.” (Thanksgiving) "The Day After (Thanksgiving)" (CC BY 2.0) by Wesley Fryer Rain in our forecast all day long. It is lovely as it fall...
I’ve decided I’m a “Communitarian Prepper,” and I’ve started a new website to share related resources. This aspirational journey started this past sum...
I love using the Paprika App (www.paprikaapp.com) for saving and using recipes! It’s available for iOS, MacOS, Android and Windows. For years my mom used the MacOS recipe pro...
I love to cook and eat steak! My favorite steak is ribeye, Shelly’s favorite is filet mignon, thanks to some good friends who introduced her to that delicacy shortly after...
It’s our Spring Break, and today I explored a couple local backyard barbecue stores in Oklahoma City and Moore. Here’s a summary of what I found for locally sourced bri...
One of the hazards of using 3rd party websites for recording and sharing media files is they sometimes go offline. Some people (like @tonyvincent) have referred to this as the R...
I enjoy cooking and eating quiche, and as I’ve tried a few different recipes I’m feeling comfortable making modifications and “remixes” based on things I have on hand and ingredien...
