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We need to be culture healers, not culture warriors. "Heal Our Culture" is an evolving project by Wes Fryer of Charlotte, North Carolina, seeking to amplify and share the voices of culture healers in our communities. Learn more and get involved on HealOurCulture.org.

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  • The Slave Bible

    The Slave Bible
    Aug 30 2026
    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 “formal historical curriculum canon” in United States public and private schools. Specifically, the history of resistance to chattel slavery, settler colonialism, and white supremacy in the Americas is vital to understand. It is for these reasons the 1526 Project is a powerful curriculum for spiritual transformation as well as historical enlightenment.Our small group for the 1526 Project is continuing to meet on Sunday evenings via Zoom, but because of our (extended) focus last week on Haiti, Bois Caïman, the Haitian Revolution, and modern-day Haiti, we’re focusing on the week 8 curriculum as well as the “Deep Dive” curriculum for August this week. (Instead of Week 9.) To help prepare in advance of tonight’s small group, and provide others (including you!) additional media resources to complement and extend the PDF curriculum, I created an 11 slide slideshow as well as a 42 minute “deep dive audio podcast” about both the Week 8 curriculum of the 1526 Project, and the “August Deep Dive.”Remember if you are not part of our small group, you can directly obtain your own copy of the 1526 Project for $12 on resistance500.com.Here is the video description of this audio deep dive, which I created with Gemini Notebook (formerly “Notebook LM:”)This week 8 deep dive for the 1526 Project examines how empires weaponized Christianity through the 1807 “Slave Bible,” a heavily redacted text published in London and used in the British Caribbean to promote obedience by removing liberation narratives like Exodus, the prophets, and Revelation while retaining passages such as Philemon and household codes. The episode explains how enslaved people developed the “Maroon Hermeneutic,” preserving and transmitting unredacted scripture through clandestine literacy, hush harbors, and spirituals, and highlights key texts (Exodus 1–15, Luke 1’s Magnificat, Daniel 3, Revelation 21, and Acts 5:29). It connects this theology to the Haitian Revolution’s proof of successful revolt and to Denmark Vesey’s 1822 Charleston conspiracy organized through the AME Church, its suppression, and the long continuance to Mother Emanuel AME and the 2015 Charleston Nine, concluding with curriculum practices of examen, liturgy, and action.00:00 A Bible With Pages Missing01:24 Welcome to the Deep Dive02:53 How We Approach This03:54 Inside the 1807 Slave Bible05:40 Theological Sandbox Explained07:56 Doctrine of Discovery Link08:52 Maroon Hermeneutic Emerges12:42 Reading in the Dark13:58 Hush Harbors and Spirituals15:58 Five Texts of Resistance16:28 Exodus and Holy Deception18:07 Magnificat and Refusal19:46 Daniel Against Empire20:06 Revelation Made Physical21:46 Haiti Proof Of Concept26:17 Vesey And The AME29:01 Gullah Jack And The Plot32:06 Betrayal And Crackdown33:15 Mother Emanuel Continuance34:06 Charleston Nine And Fugitive Faith35:57 Practices Examen Liturgy Action39:36 Final Challenge And WrapThis video deep dive is also available on YouTube.Here are links to English WikiPedia articles for many of the key people and events mentioned in this week’s curriculum:* The 1807 “Slave Bible” — Select Parts of the Holy Bible for the use of the Negro Slaves in the British West-India Islands* Exodus (the liberation narrative removed from the Slave Bible) — Book of Exodus* The Prophets (also removed) — Nevi’im* Revelation (also removed) — Book of Revelation* The Letter to Philemon (retained in the Slave Bible) — Epistle to Philemon* Household codes (also retained) — New Testament household code* Maroons / Maroon Hermeneutic — Maroons* Clandestine literacy (secret literacy among enslaved people) — Anti-literacy laws in the United States* Hush harbors — Hush harbor* Spirituals — Negro spiritual* Luke 1’s Magnificat — Magnificat* Daniel 3 — Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego* Revelation 21 — Revelation 21* Acts 5:29 — Acts 5* The Haitian Revolution — Haitian Revolution* Denmark Vesey and his 1822 Charleston conspiracy — Denmark Vesey* The AME Church — African Methodist Episcopal Church* Mother Emanuel AME — Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church* The 2015 Charleston Nine — Charleston church shootingI hope these resources enable you to deepen your own understanding of these difficult but important chapters of our shared history. We continue to live in the shadows of our past. In seeking to better understand the actions of those who have gone before us, hopefully we can strive together to do better.Let us commit together to act as culture healers, not culture warriors. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit healourculture.substack.com
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    42 min
  • Haitian Revolution and Bois Caïman

    Haitian Revolution and Bois Caïman
    Aug 8 2026
    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" overview (21.5 minutes) of the historical and spiritual background of the Haitian Revolution and Bois Caïman using Gemini Notebook. (Previously "NotebookLM") This is available as an audio file on Google Drive, and a YouTube video.Here is a summary of the audio:This “Deep Dive” style audio recording (styled as two AI narrators prepping a listener for a small-group discussion) unpacks Week 6 of “The 1526 Project,” a 20-week spiritual formation curriculum designed as an alternative lens to the 2026 semiquincentennial. Rather than anchoring American history to 1776, the curriculum starts from 1526, the year of the first European colonial settlement on the mainland and the first recorded rebellion by enslaved Africans. The episode focuses on the Haitian Revolution, beginning with the August 1791 Bois Caïman ceremony, a Vodou ritual led by Dutty Boukman and Cécile Fatiman that united enslaved people from different African ethnic groups into a coordinated uprising within two months. The curriculum controversially reframes that ceremony, historically condemned by European churches as demonic, as a “Pentecost of liberation,” paralleling it with the biblical Pentecost and the Magnificat‘s theme of lifting up the lowly.The recording then traces Toussaint Louverture‘s rise as military and political leader, his shifting relationship with the U.S. (allied under Adams, undermined under Jefferson), and the painful contradiction of his fermage labor system, which kept freed workers tied to plantations to fund the army needed to defend their freedom. It covers his betrayal and death in a French prison, the brutal war of extermination that followed under Dessalines, and how yellow fever devastated Napoleon’s forces and helped secure Haitian independence in 1804. The narrators connect this directly to two major consequences: France’s 1825 extortion of 90 million gold francs from Haiti (debt not paid off until 1947), and Napoleon’s decision to sell the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. after losing his Caribbean empire, literally doubling the size of the United States. The episode closes by noting that no portrait of Toussaint Louverture was painted during his lifetime, and the most famous image of him was created decades later by a French artist who deliberately distorted his features, framing the whole discussion as a challenge to reconsider whose historical narratives, and whose faces, we’ve inherited.In addition to using the 1526 Project curriculum as a source for this AI audio deep dive, I also used my December 2008 blog post, “Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution.”Learn more about our Project 1526 small group on my (Wes Fryer’s) “Confronting Whitness” website. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit healourculture.substack.com
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    21 min
  • The Stono Rebellion, Resistance, and Rejecting Un-Christian Nationalism

    The Stono Rebellion, Resistance, and Rejecting Un-Christian Nationalism
    Aug 3 2026

    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 Boswell and Collective Liberation Church offered as an alternative to America’s 250th independence celebrations. He invites viewers to get the $15 PDF curriculum and, in fall 2026, potentially join his group via cw.wesfryer.com while emphasizing confronting white supremacy to be a “culture healer.” This week’s focus is the Stono Rebellion (1739) and Exodus 14:13–14, including details about enslaved Congolese Catholic rebels led by Jemmy/Cato, their attempted flight toward Spanish Florida, deaths on both sides, and the resulting South Carolina Negro Act of 1740 restricting enslaved people until 1865. He connects this history to ongoing struggles for justice, critiques “un-Christian nationalism” (citing his Substack post about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth), and shares “Finlandia” as a contrasting song of peace, closing with resources at healourculture.org and resistandheal.substack.com.

    00:00 Welcome and Purpose

    00:57 Curriculum and Invitation

    02:44 Why Resistance Matters

    05:16 Project Structure Overview

    06:40 Exodus and Rebellion Theme

    10:09 Stono Rebellion Facts

    12:47 Kingdom of Kongo Context

    14:11 Negro Act and Civil War Memory

    17:05 Examen and Un-Christian Nationalism

    19:23 Finlandia Song of Peace

    22:36 Resources and Closing Call

    This video is also available on YouTube.

    Additional links referenced in this video / these slides:

    * Referenced video: “Finlandia” (”This is My Song”) performed by Indigo Girls”

    * The 1526 Project

    * Learn more and join our small group Sunday nights in Fall 2026

    * Heal Our Culture Project (also on Substack)

    * Resist and Heal (also on Substack)

    * Connect to and learn with me (Wes Fryer)



    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit healourculture.substack.com
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    25 min
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