by Martin Henson | May 28, 2025 | Faith, Martin Henson, North Carolina Community
If the church really wants to entice an increasingly nonreligious society to come back into its fold, it is their responsibility to move past its own ego and provide a place for people to process their church hurt.
My church hurt was simple. One of my pastors cheated on his wife. The church fractured. I felt betrayed by the contradictions I witnessed, not yet old enough to understand that the church is made up of people who make mistakes.
by Beacon Media | May 20, 2025 | Climate crisis, Cost of living, Environment, Local Organizing, Local Politics, North Carolina Community, Reclaiming Rural, U.S. Politics
We depend on Duke for electricity. They need to deliver that. But Duke also shouldn’t put shareholder profits over careful stewardship of the natural resources that we all depend on.
by Beacon Media | Apr 22, 2025 | Black Community, Local Organizing, Local Politics, North Carolina Community, Uncategorized
An organizer considers his and his town’s past as he confronts a time of political division. By Ryan Wegener Beacon Media Source: UNC Chapel Hill – Documenting the American South Most Confederate monuments face North to represent defending against...
by Gwen Frisbie-Fulton | Apr 1, 2025 | Cost of living, Gwen Frisbie-Fulton, Local Organizing, North Carolina Community, Reclaiming Rural
The writer reflects on her love of all things associated with the working class. By Gwen Frisbie-Fulton Working Class Storytelling City of Greenville, North Carolina, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons It started in the back seat of my family’s Jeep Cherokee, the...
by Jeremy Markovich | Mar 18, 2025 | Jeremy Markovich, North Carolina, North Carolina Community
People are all up in arms about the North Carolina accents from the latest season of “The White Lotus.” So where exactly did they come from? By Jeremy Markovich Beacon Media Jason Isaacs with Morgana O’Reilly on Season 3 of “The White Lotus.”...
