#book2read — Public Fediverse posts

#book2read: Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds by John Fugelsang:

https://www.amazon.com/Separation-Church-Hate-Fundamentalists-Flock-Fleecing-ebook/dp/B0DJ8225XT/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

via John Cleghorn, Caldwell Presbyterian Church

#HealOurCulture #ResistAndHeal #resistance #faith #Christian #religion #evangelism

#book2read: Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher
https://a.co/d/0dA9Xq7e

via “Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World” by Cal Newport
https://www.audible.com/pd/B0189PX1RQ?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow

#book2read: “On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear – A Pulitzer Winner's Guide to Personal Courage in an Age of Authoritarianism” by Julia Angwin & Ami Fields
https://a.co/d/01y22O9t

[VIDEO] interview w/ the authors:
https://youtu.be/6PQCw1Bf83o?is=XEZybKBf8hRmYTr2

via Layla Owens, Indivisible CLT

#ResistAndHeal

#book2read: Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot
https://a.co/d/01BQ2A0X

#ResistAndHeal #HealOurCulture #Juneteenth #liberation #history

#book2read: The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills
https://a.co/d/0ghucZHq

#ResistAndHeal #HealOurCulture #Juneteenth #liberation #history

#book2read: “Advent In The Time of Fascism: Remembering, Resisting and Rebirthing God's Possibility in the World” by Fredrick D. Robinson

https://a.co/d/05aJKIO6

#ResistAndHeal #HealOurCulture #Juneteenth #liberation #history

#book2read: “How to Win a Trade War: An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious Global Economy” by Soumaya Keynes and Chad P Bown
https://a.co/d/0dwPMkz6

#economy #China #tradewar #politics #InternationalRelations #tariffs #history

#book2read: “The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP” by Tim Galsworthy
https://a.co/d/0a2KVc35

#ConCW #HealOurCulture #UScivilwar #history #ResistAndHeal #Lincoln #Republican

Adding to my #book2read queue…

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#book2read: Cyber Racism: White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights (Perspectives on a Multiracial America) by Jessie Daniels

https://www.amazon.com/Cyber-Racism-Supremacy-Perspectives-Multiracial-ebook/dp/B002AS9PDI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

Via our Civics of Technology Zoom discussion about “The AI Doc”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_AI_Doc:_Or_How_I_Became_an_Apocaloptimist

https://www.civicsoftechnology.org

#HealOurCulture #ResistAndHeal

#book2read: The Bible According to Christian Nationalists: Exploiting Scripture for Political Power by Brian Kaylor

https://a.co/d/0ikIAF6E

#ConCW #genocide #ChristianNationalism #Christian #Christianity #heresy #crusades #crusader #history

#book2read: Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement by Suzanne Cope

https://a.co/d/0hZMcQe1

“Healing deserves witness”

#book2read: My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

https://a.co/d/0ajAfyeV

#HealOurCulture

[PODCAST] We are Living Through a Giant Civics Lesson by #SteadyState with Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat
https://pca.st/episode/1bdc9387-dda8-40da-b7b3-d05e525b4204

##book2read “Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall” by Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat
https://a.co/d/0hhGzb24

#ConCW #ResistAndHeal #politics #security

#book2read: “We Were Eight Years in Power” by TA-NEHISI COATES
https://ta-nehisicoates.com/books/we-were-eight-years-in-power/

via “How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith by Mariann Edgar Budde
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BBPHQ6T2?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

#ResistAndHeal

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https://resistandheal.substack.com/

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https://news.wesfryer.com/

#book2read: “Abundance” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
https://a.co/d/6DzUORm

via Rev. John Cleghorn in his sermon, “Abundance as Resistance”
https://www.youtube.com/live/3IhGmjuicTA?si=1Fl6PerrwreVCSHP

#dw4jc #ResistAndHeal #HealOurCulture

#book2read: A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie by Dean Koontz

https://a.co/d/ctm0M0Y

#book2read: “You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: Music in the Age of Streaming” by Glenn McDonald
https://a.co/d/3UxXAqD

via [VIDEO] Renee Hobbs “It's All in the Family: Media Education in the Age of AI”
https://youtu.be/r5DtfJh_iiA?si=enBbSGvVHEMZBRQq

#spotify #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #propaganda

#book2read: The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last by Jimmy Wales
https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Rules-Trust-Blueprint-Building/dp/B0F22GL35G/

via #HankGreen “Wikipedia and the Destruction of Trust”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0ogvPfCA

#MediaLit #edtechSR #trust #WikiPedia #ConCW #CultureWar #collaboration

#PodcastRecc: “The US Government’s AI Grand Bargain” by #AngryPlanet with Ben Buchanan
https://pca.st/episode/08d7f281-568c-4257-9d07-10088dcd1a4a

#book2read: “The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI” by Ben Buchanan https://a.co/d/5txbRT0

Recent (Nov/Dec 2025) Foreign Affairs article: “The AI Grand Bargain: What America Needs to Win the Innovation Race” https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/artificial-intelligence-grand-bargain-buchanan-collins

#AI #policy #politics #future #ethics #power #nuclear #edtechSR #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #energy

#book2read: Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass – An Urgent Investigation into the Invisible Human Labor Powering AI and the Digital Economy by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Work-Silicon-Building-Underclass-ebook/dp/B07FKB6CZK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

via “Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI” by Karen Hao
https://a.co/d/4X8kVRZ

#book2read Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan Metzl
https://a.co/d/2Jn9HGB

via The Left Hook by Wajahat Ali
https://open.substack.com/pub/thelefthook/p/heather-cox-richardson-on-how-the?r=4unjx&utm_medium=ios

#book2read: “The Mind of the South” by W.J. Cash
https://a.co/d/j1VUde4

via Rev Dr Ben Boswell, “Liberalism is not liberation” (Baptist News, 24 Nov 2025)
https://baptistnews.com/article/liberalism-is-not-liberation/

#ResistAndHeal #HealOurCulture #racism #Whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #ConfrontingWhiteness #Liberalism

#book2read: Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department via Carol Leonnig
https://a.co/d/6DoEfEG

#ResistAndHeal #resist #ConCW #politics

I’ve started to listen to “Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI” by Karen Hao
https://a.co/d/4X8kVRZ

#book2read #bookrecc #AI #ethics #OpenAI #ChatGPT

via #JasonNeiffer

(1/2) #book2read: “Getting Jefferson Right: Fact-Checking Claims About Thomas Jefferson” by Warren Throckmorton and Michael Coulter
https://a.co/d/fPJJOIt

“In Getting Jefferson Right: Fact-Checking Claims About Thomas Jefferson, two conservative scholars examine key claims frequently made by religious conservatives about Thomas Jefferson. Using Jefferson's correspondence, accounts of Jefferson's contemporaries, and other primary sources, Throckmorton and Coulter separate fact from fiction.”

#book2read: “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism” by Tim Alberta

https://open.spotify.com/show/7H5IRvLxp0cji92aLCA5im?si=3etk03qcRoSlzx3L7mGQ6A

Join me in advocacy for human rights, representative democracy and religious tolerance:
http://wesfryer.com/advocacy/

#ResistAndHeal #politics #polarization #HealOurCulture #Jesus #Christianity #ChristianNationalism #fascism #cult #empathy #ConCW

Added to my reading list...

#book2read: “Why civil resistance works: The strategic logic of nonviolent conflict” by Chenoweth and Stephan
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Civil-Resistance-Works-Nonviolent-ebook/dp/B005SZEEXQ/

Join me in my advocacy for human rights and representative democracy:
https://wesfryer.com/advocacy/

#ResistAndHeal

(1/3) #book2read: “No Longer Slaves: Galatians and African American Experience” by Brad Ronnell Braxton
https://a.co/d/4mNwCgb

This is a reference book we are using in our adult Sunday School class at Caldwell Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, NC:
https://www.caldwellpresby.org/growing-in-faith/

From the book description:
“No Longer Slaves brings the ancient New Testament message into conversation with African American culture. Twenty centuries after Paul penned Galatians, American culture in general

#book2read: How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley

https://www.amazon.com/How-Fascism-Works-Politics-Them-ebook/dp/B0796DNSVZ

via #IndivisibleCLT

#ResistAndHeal #fascism #politics #polarization #history #resist