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A Locked Door, an Open Ledger, and a Long Silence by Geddry a Publication of nGenium - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
DSR Daily Live with Allison Gill by Allison Gill, The DSR Network, and David Rothkopf from The Breakdown - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
The Russian Bots Didn’t Disappear. So Why Did the Internet Feel Nicer? by Matthew Facciani from Misguided - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Live with Mississippi US Senate candidate Scott Colom! by Jess Craven and Scott Colom for U.S. Senate from Chop Wood, Carry Water - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #Federate...
How To Fight Back Against MAGA'S Election Interference by THE LEFT HOOK - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Election Day Is Not the Finish Line by Kris Goldsmith – On Offense - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Canada “Wants its friend back” .. as Trump’s support collapses further - Scott MacFarlane & Dean Blundell by Scott MacFarlane - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedRea...
Lawyer? Liar? All The Same by Ally Sammarco - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Cheating, Lying, Dividing: Can You Guess Who I’m Talking About? by Michael Tomasky - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
The Tigers-Eating-Faces Party Is Real by JVL - The Bulwark - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Trump’s New Press Secretary Gave the Internet a Gift by The Dangerous Ones Network - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Musk’s unprecedented effort to buy the 2026 midterm elections by Oligarch Watch - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
What Would Stephen Miller Do? Dems Wargame Election Defense by Adrian Carrasquillo - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Disease Acceleration: Architecture of Harm Episode 7 by Walter Rhein, Dr. Yamicia Connor, and A. Eevie Bateman from I'd Rather Be Writing - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #...
The Beauty of Something Grown by Dean W. Ball from Hyperdimensional - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Democratic Ads Exaggerate GOP Law’s Impact on Medicare by FactCheck.org - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
The Three Pillars of Democracy with Hamilton Nolan by Reed Galen and Hamilton Nolan from Civic Forum - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Lift It Again by Joe Nichols from Beautiful Heresy - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
Same Eye, Two Meanings by Chris Powell's Canvas Insider - October 16, 2026#Substack #OwnYourFeed #FederatedReader
“A Hyperlinked Ballot Should Be Normal” Early voting is underway for the 2026 midterms in the USA. Here in Union County, North Carolina, it runs through October 31, ...
Early voting is underway for the 2026 midterms in the USA. Here in Union County, North Carolina, it runs through October 31, and Election Day is Tuesday, November 3.If you are like...
Content was taken from the studio's live configuration on the evening of September 22, 2026, and refreshed on October 2, 2026, including which model …
Worse than Godzilla. We haven’t quite reached the cyber apocalypse that artificial intelligence companies have warned their technology could unleash …
Software designed to grow your community and move it to action Native advocacy features Engage your audience in new and innovative ways using …
Assist is our voice assistant that allows you to control Home Assistant using natural language. Assist is built on top of an open voice foundation and …
Incident hitting 700 supermarkets exploited outdated devices exposed to the Internet. Earlier this week, a mass hack of refrigeration systems at an …
Indivisible Charlotte hosts an “In The Know Live” conversation on protecting the vote in North Carolina as voting begins, featuring Sailor Jones (Common Cause NC), Stef...
Are you a current classroom teacher or professor? Do you directly support students and/or educators? Consider pitching an idea in TED and Google’s “AI in education idea...
Artificial intelligence has moved quickly from being an emerging technology to one that is rapidly forcing universities to make consequential choices. …
Kansas Senate candidate Adam Hamilton (D) on Sunday responded to Vice President Vance’s attacks on his religious beliefs, calling the attacks “really …
There are many things I do not like about Facebook and Meta, but one of them is that if you’re trying to leave a comment on someone’s post, but you need to look up a link, often wh...
The Pentagon says it will livestream the planned military execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people and wounded 32 at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. H...
Today I shared two short drive videos from the North Carolina mountains, and I made both of them entirely on my iPhone with the free Premiere app from Adobe.Driving on the Blue Rid...
Training humans to treat AI chatbots as more than what they are is far more dangerous than what Anthropic is trying to prevent. There are lots of reasons to have feelings about art...
Professors are tearing their hair out over AI detectors. Timothy Paustian has tried everything to stop his students from writing essays with AI. When ChatGPT first came out, Pausti...
Our fall break at school started today, and my journey migrating 39 websites to a new web host continued. My October 1st post, “AI Assisted Blogging Milestone,” include...
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King Charles III has referred Jamaica’s slavery reparations petition to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, moving the Caribbean nation’s …
A Cornelius man used artificial intelligence to create songs and fake streaming accounts to play those songs in a scheme that netted him millions. He …
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"Oligarchy is a poison that kills democracy." Oligarchy is rule by the wealthy few. Sound familiar? In this episode of The Nerd Reich podcast, Gil Duran talks to Casey Michel, auth...
“The corruption is the point,” writes Casey Michel in United States of Oligarchy: How America's Wealthiest Ally with Dictators, Weaken the U.S., and …
It's janky for now, but it sort of works. To get this out of the way, you should probably be more cautious than I’ve been about downloading and using …
It was just after 2 a.m. on a pitch-black Friday morning when Bernadette Greene-Placentia’s life changed. The Democratic candidate for Congressional …
It is a hot July afternoon. Folks have arrived from different places, carrying different stories, experiences, hopes and burdens.A Black woman, an …
My Computer Programming middle school students started building “Spooky Scratch Stories” this week, which are animated Halloween tales with sprites, sounds, glides, and...
One summer morning, the Rev. Melissa Wagner stepped into the pulpit of her church and delivered a sermon that no pastor ever wants to give. Wagner fought back tears as she spoke in...
On Monday, October 5, 2026, Wes Fryer in Charlotte, North Carolina discusses the question “Will AI kill all of us?” while recommending the Netflix documentary “Th...
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Today in my 7th grade advisory class, we set goals for the semester and the school year. I introduced my students to the “5 Dynamics of Goal Setting,” a framework I lea...
Listening to my first podcast from 2005 This morning I listened to the first podcast I ever recorded on August 3, 2005 in Lubbock Texas: “Podcast1: …
This morning I listened to the first podcast I ever recorded on August 3, 2005 in Lubbock Texas: “Podcast1: Adventures in Brazil, Fear in our Classrooms” (13 min)Subscr...
I’m both excited and relieved to share this report after MANY hours spent with Claude at my MacOS terminal command line: 6,390 blog posts shared between 2003 and 2026 have no...
Since I’m a dad who likes to “play with media” and act as a family “storychaser,” we’ve recorded a LOT of audio and video over the years. I̵...
DISCLAIMER: This is a “playing with AI” / “playing with media” example! (I explain a bit more in the post and in comments!)Have you played with “Googl...
Today I thank the Lord for walking with me through the darkest valleys of my life, for lifting me up and bringing people into my life who have shown me love and kindness. They taug...
This is great news. I know about Seminarian James Talarico running for Senate in Texas and Pastor Adam Hamilton running for Senate in Kansas, but it turns out there are even more l...
This past Friday, September 25th, I sat down for a Facebook Live from Charlotte to talk about someone I think everyone needs to understand right now: Peter Thiel. He is not a house...
This was my response this morning to a lengthy Facebook post by a fellow graduate of Manhattan High School: I do think we need to be careful when we refer to things like “disab...
Tristan Harris is one of my “trusted voices.”Tristan’s latest video, “The Most Hopeful (And Concerning) Moment Yet in AI”, is an outstanding 20 minute...
I’ve noticed more established and “fancier” video and podcast channels like Hank Green and the Atlantic’s “The Most Interesting Thing in AI” cre...
Welcome to episode 383 (”Pacing the AI Frontier”) of the EdTech Situation Room from September 16, 2026, where technology news met educational analysis. This week, Dr. J...
Last night I continued a project I started three months ago: Moving my websites off an aging Linux virtual private server that kept going offline and getting overwhelmed, mainly du...
An important part of “Healing Our Culture” is studying chapters of our history which have been hidden or omitted from the formal educational curriculum, especially when...
Welcome to episode 382 (”Order of the Collective”) of the EdTech Situation Room from September 9, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr....
I shared this comment today in a Facebook post by Jennifer Watson (a Charlotte friend and community leader) who is sharing helpful graphics (that I’ll include below) about wh...
I started the “Conspiracies and Culture Wars” media literacy inquiry project back in 2019 with my colleague, Brian Turnbaugh, initially to just try and better understan...
These are some reflections in response to a friend’s Facebook memories about the 9/11 attacks, and our current political situation.So much I can say about this. I had just st...
Welcome to episode 381 (”Munchkins vs. Meta”) of the EdTech Situation Room from September 2, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jaso...
Lots of things caught my attention in this NPR article today, including the fact that the Provost was formally at Olin College of Engineering outside Boston, an absolutely amazing ...
Off the Grid, On the Mesh: What I’m Learning About MeshtasticA couple weeks ago, my friend and podcast co-host Jason Neiffer shared Meshtastic as one of his “Geeks of t...
The full title of this post is, “The Slave Bible, Maroon Hermeneutics and Denmark Vesey: Fugitive Faith from 1807 to Mother Emanuel.” To heal our culture, we must st...
To heal our culture, we must study and understand our history. These studies must include the actions of people and events which have not traditionally been part of the “form...
On August 17, 2026, Wes Fryer interviews Tony Siracusa, media director for Indivisible Charlotte, about the July 25, 2026 community vigil in First Ward Park held with the Carolina ...
Welcome to episode 380 (”The Paperclip Maximizer”) of the EdTech Situation Room from August 19, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. J...
Week 7 of the 1526 Project turned to Nat Turner, and the tragic event we now call "The Nat Turner Rebellion" in August of 1831 in Southampton County in southeast Virginia.This quot...
Source citation matters because it’s how we “show our thinking.” And we reveal the basis for our assertions. Our evidence. This is foundational for civic dialogue...
Welcome to episode 379 (”Big Tech’s Reckoning”) of the EdTech Situation Room from August 12, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr...
AI plagiarism checkers are not reliable or 100 percent accurate. This paragraph in the August 1, 2026, Northeast Times article, “Yale AI-cheating case hinged on a Word file m...
To prepare for our 6th week small group meeting of The 1526 Project, which focuses on “Bois Caïman: Haiti and the Pentecost of Liberation,” I created an audio “de...
To prepare for our 6th week small group meeting of The 1526 Project, which focuses on "Bois Caïman: Haiti and the Pentecost of Liberation," I created an audio "deep dive" over...
Today I shared a lightning talk over Zoom at the Civics of Technology Conference, whose theme this year was “Against Tech Hype.” I opened with the same question the con...
Welcome to episode 378 (”Behold Claude Co-Work”) of the EdTech Situation Room from August 5, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jaso...
I shared this as a five star review today on the Apple App Store:“NaturalReader: Text to Speech”I use this app every week to listen to the news. Doesn’t work for ...
The Stono Rebellion, Resistance, and Rejecting Un-Christian Nationalism On August 2, 2026, Wes Fryer in Charlotte shares what he learned preparing for his Project 1526 sma...
On August 2, 2026, Wes Fryer in Charlotte shares what he learned preparing for his Project 1526 small group (resistance500.com), a spiritual formation curriculum by Rev. Ben Boswel...
MAGA’s culture war targeting universities, tenure, science, etc. continues. One of my best professors at the US Air Force Academy in 1991-92 (my senior year) was a civilian. ...
Indivisible Charlotte’s In The Know Live hosts North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls, a veteran civil rights litigator seeking re-election in November 2026, to dis...
Yesterday’s post by Meredith Blake for The Contrarian, “The Tate Brothers Are as Vile as Jeffrey Epstein: Can we please stop calling them “influencers” now?...
Some reflections today about how many of the observations and prescriptions offered by Rainn Wilson in his book, “Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution” are in ...
Some reflections today about how many of the observations and prescriptions offered by Rainn Wilson in his book, “Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution” are in li...
A video I recorded by the courthouse this evening in downtown Jackson, Tennessee.Video Summary:On Sunday, July 12, 2026, while traveling through Jackson, Tennessee on the way to Ok...
A video I recorded by the courthouse this evening in downtown Jackson, Tennessee. Video Summary: On Sunday, July 12, 2026, while traveling through Jackson, Tennessee on...
I vividly remember leading professional development for my fellow teachers at Wheelock Elementary School just before Thanksgiving in 1998. We got special permission from Karl Mahan...
I vividly remember leading professional development for my fellow teachers at Wheelock Elementary School just before Thanksgiving in 1998. We got special permission from Karl Mahan...
Welcome to episode 377 (”Fable Is Back”) of the EdTech Situation Room from July 1, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffer ...
I’m thankful to learn about this important book about the historic struggles and successes of women at the United States Air Force Academy. This journey continues today.https...
Some of the photos from July 4th,2026 in our nation’s capital this past weekend speak 1000 words. This juxtaposition of images 100 years apart from Jamar Tisby are chilling. ...
Yesterday marked the 250th birthday of the United States. Today, our small group gathered over Zoom for the first session of the 1526 Project, also known as Resistance 500: a spiri...
Give a listen to this fantastic [PODCAST] episode for culture healers:“The 7 Pillars Of A Spiritual Revolution by Rainn Wilson”SubscribeI love this quoted idea from the...
Today is July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in the United States of America. This year is also the 500th anniversary of “Re...
Today is July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in the United States of America. This year is also the 500th anniversary of “Re...
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In this time of national celebration as well as reflection on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence on Saturday, I have read with sa...
What is “the work” of anti-racism? If we open our eyes / have our eyes opened (at least in part) to the systems of racism and white supremacy all around us, what can we...
Tomorrow in our Sunday School class we will continue discussing “Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter” by Kelly Brown Douglas.This evening I caught up o...
Yesterday (Thursday, June 18th) was the last day of my first week of my summer STEM camp series, and I wanted to document my student computer setups before I forget the details. I ...
Welcome to episode 376 (”Screen Time Isn’t Binary”) of the EdTech Situation Room from June 17, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, ...
Where do you get your news on a daily and weekly basis? The answer to that question really matters.I’ve been working on a project I call “Reclaim the News”, and h...
Welcome to episode 375 (”Good Pedagogy Please”) of the EdTech Situation Room from June 10, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason ...
My new summer book read: “How to Fight Fascism: A Handbook for the New American Resistance” by Alexis Walshhttps://www.amazon.ie/How-Fight-Fascism-Handbook-Resistance/d...
Pete Hegseth is a deluded religious extremist who stands in the tradition of The Crusades, The Spanish Inquisition, Settler Colonialism and the genocide of First Nations. “Un...
This news cuts me deeply. Pete Hegseth, a man unfit to serve in uniform much less as the Secretary of Defense of the United States of America, continues to purge our military leade...
Tomorrow morning I’ll be leading our ACE Sunday School class at Caldwell Presbyterian through a theologically rich and timely discussion. We’re currently reading and di...
Along with members of our adult ACE Sunday School class at Caldwell Presbyterian Church, I have been reading the remarkable book Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matte...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) was passed during the height of the Civil Rights Movement and was amended five times to expand its protections. The purpose was to enforce votin...
Welcome to episode 374 ("DJ Claude Goes Rogue") of the EdTech Situation Room from May 20, 2026, where technology news met educational analysis. This week, Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfrye...
In J.K. Rowling’s fifth book in her Hogwarts series, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” Harry is required by Professor Dumbledore to take a series of le...
Indivisible Charlotte was fortunate to conduct an In the Know Live interview on April 30, 2026, with Professor Timothy Snyder, an American historian and the author of many books, i...
This Saturday, Rachel will have her “Ring Dance” at the Air Force Academy, which ends the 2 degree / junior year and marks the start of her “firstee” or sen...
Want to understand why politicians in Tennessee just acted to disenfranchise thousands of our fellow Americans and citizens, many who “happen to be African-American?”Th...
I’ve been watching, reading, and thinking about the fractures in American democracy for several years now — through the lens of a citizen, an educator, a media literacy teacher, an...
Welcome to episode 373 (”Digitizing Local History”) of the EdTech Situation Room from May 6, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Wesl...
When U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) descended on Charlotte in November 2025, they expected an easy target. What they found instead was a city ready to fight back. The fed...
Please join me TODAY on Monday, May 4th, 2026 at noon Eastern Time for the free webinar, “Memes, Warfare, and Propaganda” for the Media Education Lab.SubscribeHere is t...
Today is a “teacher work day” at our school, and we’re allowed to work from wherever we want, so I’m working from home.I started my day by watching 2 TEDx t...
Indivisible Charlotte hosts a webinar discussion with historian Timothy Snyder about his book On Freedom, contrasting “negative freedom” (freedom as removing barriers o...
Indivisible Charlotte’s In the Know Live, hosted by Freda Zeh and Wes Fryer, features a recorded panel with community leaders Rachel Salo (Indivisible Charlotte), Hector Vaca...
This evening I was able to watch and listen to the second half of a wonderful panel on “Preaching and Leadership” hosted by Union Presbyterian Seminary. The panel featu...
Creamy, tangy, and just a little fiery — the hot honey does triple duty with heat, sweetness, and apple cider vinegar tang. The curry adds a warmth that keeps people guessing. ...
Thanks to some help from my AI cooking partner “Claude,” we landed on a recipe that brings together fire-roasted tomato sauce made right in the blender, refried beans l...
Saturday I had an opportunity to audit an initial class of a course at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Charlotte, “Religions of the Enslaved” taught by Dr. Alphonso F. Saville, IV. ...
Hi everyone, this is Wes Fryer in Charlotte, North Carolina. It’s April 14th, 2026, and I want to talk about a free webinar with Timothy Snyder on April 30th — coming u...
This evening my Air Force Academy roommate and buddy, Brad Ball, let me know that an Academy graduate and CS-05 Wolfpack 4 degree we both knew, Brian Burns, passed away in November...
In The Know Live with Timothy Snyder is sponsored by Indivisible CLT in partnership with the Indivisible North Carolina statewide chapters. REGISTER FREE on Mobilize!Subscribe nowO...
Welcome to episode 372 (”AI’s Psychological Dangers”) of the EdTech Situation Room from April 8, 2026, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week...
I reject genocide and war crimes, which are the exact actions the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has openly professed he wants to do and will do. This is morally rep...
This was our second year to attend the Saturday evening Easter weekend Catholic Mass at Holy Cross Abbey, which is right on the Shenandoah River outside Round Hill and Purcellville...
Generally, NFL teams don’t fire their head coach in the middle of the Super Bowl. It can be pretty stupid to fire your top military leader in the middle of an active war. Unl...
Our president is not mentally well and has not been for a long time.It is simultaneously jarring, sad, tragic, and potentially devastating (both physically and psychologically) for...
Video transcript:Good morning everyone. Today is Monday, March the 30th, 2026. This is Wes Fryer in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is about 7:20 in the morning before school, and I ...
Political analysts have been in overdrive assessing the war, its risks and effects. There are so many disparate issues, collecting them in a high-level review may provide a better ...
Speaking at the No Kings 3 Rally and Protest in Charlotte after traveling from Houston, Ibram X. Kendi describes encountering ICE agents at the airport and reflects on how many Ame...
What a treat to hear Dr. Ibram X. Kendi speak in uptown Charlotte twice today, once at the No Kings 3 rally and protest before the march, and again at the Carolina Theatre for a s...
Welcome to episode 371 (“Router Bans, AI Agents”) of the EdTech Situation Room from March 25, 2026, where technology news met educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason...
Observations by Sheikh Nawaf Saud Al-Sabah, CEO of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation on Tuesday:There is no substitute for exports through the Strait of Hormuz, he said. Measures such a...
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 ...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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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...
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 ...
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. ...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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:...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 “...
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...
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...
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 ̶...
“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...
