Rob D.
@abbspops.bsky.social
If I’m being honest, the best things about me are an incredible wife, amazing kids and the world’s most beautiful grandchild…
Somebody needs to go to jail… take your pick.
Bovino
Noem
Bondi
Musk
Pulte
McMahon
Hegseth
Patel
Need I go on?
Bovino
Noem
Bondi
Musk
Pulte
McMahon
Hegseth
Patel
Need I go on?
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Somebody needs to go to jail… take your pick.
Bovino
Noem
Bondi
Musk
Pulte
McMahon
Hegseth
Patel
Need I go on?
Bovino
Noem
Bondi
Musk
Pulte
McMahon
Hegseth
Patel
Need I go on?
I’m fairly sure the idea is to inflict as much harm on the American people (SNAP benefits, ICE arrests & kidnappings, etc), claim that people taking to the streets are “rioting” and THEN unleash our military on Americans all across the country… bet.
November 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I’m fairly sure the idea is to inflict as much harm on the American people (SNAP benefits, ICE arrests & kidnappings, etc), claim that people taking to the streets are “rioting” and THEN unleash our military on Americans all across the country… bet.
While I’m not deconstructing… I must admit feeling discombobulated.
Rob Daniels (@robbyd819)
When I read this post I found it resonated with my experience…
While not an exvangelical or even in a period of deconstruction of my own faith, for quite sometime I’ve felt a deepening disappointmen...
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October 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
While I’m not deconstructing… I must admit feeling discombobulated.
Left one of huge social media platforms back at the end of July after building & growing a significant “group” focused on issues of justice for historically marginalized groups, after spending well over a decade building my personal profile.
Went back over the last couple days for a look see… Gross🤮
Went back over the last couple days for a look see… Gross🤮
October 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Left one of huge social media platforms back at the end of July after building & growing a significant “group” focused on issues of justice for historically marginalized groups, after spending well over a decade building my personal profile.
Went back over the last couple days for a look see… Gross🤮
Went back over the last couple days for a look see… Gross🤮
(2) Can you imagine if a specific previous president talking about government handouts had said something like, "I call it the H-word and there are two H-words but you can't use either of them."
September 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
(2) Can you imagine if a specific previous president talking about government handouts had said something like, "I call it the H-word and there are two H-words but you can't use either of them."
(1) So this is what POTUS said at the meeting with top military officess...."[He] made a reference to a racial slur while discussing nuclear weapons. “I call it the N-word," he told his audience of mostly stone-faced officers. "There are two N-words and you can’t use either of them.”
September 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
(1) So this is what POTUS said at the meeting with top military officess...."[He] made a reference to a racial slur while discussing nuclear weapons. “I call it the N-word," he told his audience of mostly stone-faced officers. "There are two N-words and you can’t use either of them.”
All of this…
The Dangerous Ones (@thedangerousones)
Pause your doomscrolling for two minutes and watch this.
substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
All of this…
Reposted by Rob D.
There are hopeful signs of Christian revival in America one is that increased education also increases church attendance. That is particularly true for those of African descent. @ryanburge.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
There are hopeful signs of Christian revival in America one is that increased education also increases church attendance. That is particularly true for those of African descent. @ryanburge.bsky.social
Watching my journalist son work an event/ conference focusing on the Church and the reality of the death and destruction taking place in Palestine and the West Bank.
And I’m finding myself wondering, what will I tell my granddaughter I was doing during this moment in human history…
And I’m finding myself wondering, what will I tell my granddaughter I was doing during this moment in human history…
September 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Watching my journalist son work an event/ conference focusing on the Church and the reality of the death and destruction taking place in Palestine and the West Bank.
And I’m finding myself wondering, what will I tell my granddaughter I was doing during this moment in human history…
And I’m finding myself wondering, what will I tell my granddaughter I was doing during this moment in human history…
Came across this early, very early this morning….
Rob Daniels (@robbyd819)
Strong words.
Powerful truths.
Saying what so many of think.
substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Came across this early, very early this morning….
…when white people said racial reconciliation, they meant friendship. When Black people said racial reconciliation, we meant justice - Dr. Jemar Tisby
For a very long time I struggled with a way to frame my experience… this is it.
For a very long time I struggled with a way to frame my experience… this is it.
What Happened After Jemar Tisby Started A Network for Black Christians?
As The Witness' flagship podcast, ‘Pass the Mic,’ nears its last episode, Tisby reflects on racial reconciliation and finding community in the wilderness.
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August 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
…when white people said racial reconciliation, they meant friendship. When Black people said racial reconciliation, we meant justice - Dr. Jemar Tisby
For a very long time I struggled with a way to frame my experience… this is it.
For a very long time I struggled with a way to frame my experience… this is it.
I cannot think of a single democracy on the planet that honors any of those who engaged in armed rebellion against that democratically elected elected government…
Except in the United States.
And it’s not about “honor” but rather racialized terror.
Except in the United States.
And it’s not about “honor” but rather racialized terror.
Garrison Hayes (@garrisonhayes)
🤨 WATCH: Confederate monuments are usually erected at verryyy suspicious times throughout history.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I cannot think of a single democracy on the planet that honors any of those who engaged in armed rebellion against that democratically elected elected government…
Except in the United States.
And it’s not about “honor” but rather racialized terror.
Except in the United States.
And it’s not about “honor” but rather racialized terror.
This has been the long game all along… a 60 year effort, that I believe finds its roots in the 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown Vs. The Board of Education and a home in ⚪️ evangelicalism.
DEI or CEI?
The dangers of Conformity, Exclusion, & Inequality
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August 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This has been the long game all along… a 60 year effort, that I believe finds its roots in the 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown Vs. The Board of Education and a home in ⚪️ evangelicalism.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
In my own life I’ve repeatedly had the experience of being told that telling my story makes “people” uncomfortable.
I’m to the point now where I want to tell folks to just, “Get over yourselves…”
In my own life I’ve repeatedly had the experience of being told that telling my story makes “people” uncomfortable.
I’m to the point now where I want to tell folks to just, “Get over yourselves…”
Scholar says Trump's efforts to reframe U.S. history is 'reminiscent of McCarthyism'
President Trump described Smithsonian museums as “out of control” for emphasizing, in his view, “how bad slavery was.” It's part of a pattern by Trump in his second term to reframe historical narrativ...
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August 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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In my own life I’ve repeatedly had the experience of being told that telling my story makes “people” uncomfortable.
I’m to the point now where I want to tell folks to just, “Get over yourselves…”
In my own life I’ve repeatedly had the experience of being told that telling my story makes “people” uncomfortable.
I’m to the point now where I want to tell folks to just, “Get over yourselves…”
And this is why I love NYC…
St. Patrick’s Cathedral to Unveil Mural Celebrating City’s Immigrants
St. Patrick’s Cathedral to Unveil Mural Celebrating City’s Immigrants
St. Patrick’s Cathedral to Unveil Mural Celebrating City’s Immigrants
www.nytimes.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
And this is why I love NYC…
St. Patrick’s Cathedral to Unveil Mural Celebrating City’s Immigrants
St. Patrick’s Cathedral to Unveil Mural Celebrating City’s Immigrants
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone... they dance alone…
A song about the USA in 2025…
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone... they dance alone…
A song about the USA in 2025…
Sting - They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)
YouTube video by StingVEVO
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August 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone... they dance alone…
A song about the USA in 2025…
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone... they dance alone…
A song about the USA in 2025…
How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
Opinion | How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America
www.nytimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
How Short-Term Thinking Is Destroying America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
No one believes it can happen here (even though marginalized folks have a few stories to tell)…
And then it does.
apnews.com/article/wome...
And then it does.
apnews.com/article/wome...
Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn't be allowed to vote
The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to v...
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August 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
No one believes it can happen here (even though marginalized folks have a few stories to tell)…
And then it does.
apnews.com/article/wome...
And then it does.
apnews.com/article/wome...
For quite some time, I have struggled with what Renita Weems articulates here.
I came to Christ in a suburban church and stumbled upon what seemed to be a virtuous embrace of the color-blind Church. I believed it was "the" biblical approach, the only legitimate way forward.
Now, I wonder...
I came to Christ in a suburban church and stumbled upon what seemed to be a virtuous embrace of the color-blind Church. I believed it was "the" biblical approach, the only legitimate way forward.
Now, I wonder...
They Say It's Biblical. I Say It's A Lie.
What Conservative Christiantiy Calls Truth--and Why We Must Push Back.
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August 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
For quite some time, I have struggled with what Renita Weems articulates here.
I came to Christ in a suburban church and stumbled upon what seemed to be a virtuous embrace of the color-blind Church. I believed it was "the" biblical approach, the only legitimate way forward.
Now, I wonder...
I came to Christ in a suburban church and stumbled upon what seemed to be a virtuous embrace of the color-blind Church. I believed it was "the" biblical approach, the only legitimate way forward.
Now, I wonder...
In response to the breaking news that highly confidential/top secret plans for military action were irresponsibly shared I said…
“Imagine if you will, Generals Lloyd Austin or Colin Powell having done this while serving in very similar high-profile roles?”
That got me restricted on FB🤷🏿♂️
“Imagine if you will, Generals Lloyd Austin or Colin Powell having done this while serving in very similar high-profile roles?”
That got me restricted on FB🤷🏿♂️
March 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
In response to the breaking news that highly confidential/top secret plans for military action were irresponsibly shared I said…
“Imagine if you will, Generals Lloyd Austin or Colin Powell having done this while serving in very similar high-profile roles?”
That got me restricted on FB🤷🏿♂️
“Imagine if you will, Generals Lloyd Austin or Colin Powell having done this while serving in very similar high-profile roles?”
That got me restricted on FB🤷🏿♂️
I mistakenly said elsewhere in response to the chaos of this past week…“We’ve been here before” but that’s not helpful.
It’s much more accurate to say, “We’re built for this”
open.substack.com/pub/jemartis...
It’s much more accurate to say, “We’re built for this”
open.substack.com/pub/jemartis...
Stop Saying "We've Been Here Before"
There is another phrase that can be more helpful.
open.substack.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I mistakenly said elsewhere in response to the chaos of this past week…“We’ve been here before” but that’s not helpful.
It’s much more accurate to say, “We’re built for this”
open.substack.com/pub/jemartis...
It’s much more accurate to say, “We’re built for this”
open.substack.com/pub/jemartis...
A couple of thoughts
No. 3-As I have heard it said elsewhere, if you ever wondered what you would have done during the days of the mid 20th century struggle for Civil Rights... simply examine what you are doing now. That is your answer to that question.
No. 3-As I have heard it said elsewhere, if you ever wondered what you would have done during the days of the mid 20th century struggle for Civil Rights... simply examine what you are doing now. That is your answer to that question.
January 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A couple of thoughts
No. 3-As I have heard it said elsewhere, if you ever wondered what you would have done during the days of the mid 20th century struggle for Civil Rights... simply examine what you are doing now. That is your answer to that question.
No. 3-As I have heard it said elsewhere, if you ever wondered what you would have done during the days of the mid 20th century struggle for Civil Rights... simply examine what you are doing now. That is your answer to that question.
A couple of thoughts
No. 2- A march backwards is quite clear to me, the undoing of the very fabric of our nation seems to be something that more than a few people are genuinely excited about....
No. 2- A march backwards is quite clear to me, the undoing of the very fabric of our nation seems to be something that more than a few people are genuinely excited about....
January 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A couple of thoughts
No. 2- A march backwards is quite clear to me, the undoing of the very fabric of our nation seems to be something that more than a few people are genuinely excited about....
No. 2- A march backwards is quite clear to me, the undoing of the very fabric of our nation seems to be something that more than a few people are genuinely excited about....
A couple of thoughts,
No.1 -As I have been preparing my message for this weekend, I've spent this morning listening to the messages of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
It certainly seems to me that Dr. King's words from before I was born (many of them) are appropriate for such a time as this.
No.1 -As I have been preparing my message for this weekend, I've spent this morning listening to the messages of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
It certainly seems to me that Dr. King's words from before I was born (many of them) are appropriate for such a time as this.
January 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A couple of thoughts,
No.1 -As I have been preparing my message for this weekend, I've spent this morning listening to the messages of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
It certainly seems to me that Dr. King's words from before I was born (many of them) are appropriate for such a time as this.
No.1 -As I have been preparing my message for this weekend, I've spent this morning listening to the messages of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
It certainly seems to me that Dr. King's words from before I was born (many of them) are appropriate for such a time as this.