Joshua Abbotoy 🇺🇸

Managing Director at @NewFounding, and Founder/CEO of @usaridge

Co-Founder and Executive Director of @AmReformer

Lincoln Fellow at @ClaremontInst

[Joshua Abbotoy 🇺🇸 @Byzness]

On Friday, @UsaRidge purchased a very special farm that I'm thrilled to now announce.

I love everything about this 450-acre farm, but most of all I love how it will provide a perfect miniature demonstration of our Charter Community model.

🧵

[Joshua Abbotoy 🇺🇸 @Byzness]

@IVMiles Did you play sports in high school?

[Joshua Abbotoy 🇺🇸 @Byzness]

@NaturalistOrder @WilliamWolfe @RHelfenbein Uh…. Kirk

[William Wolfe 🇺🇸 @WilliamWolfe]

Thankful for my good friend @RHelfenbein and his service to Southern Baptists. He’s a fantastic leader and I hope we see more of him in the future.

[Joshua Abbotoy 🇺🇸 @Byzness]

Love this. What a great idea.

[Willy Rice @WillyRice]

Dear Southern Baptist family, we have much work to do. As we return to Baptist headquarters (our local churches) for a busy season of ministry, I want to thank you again for your many expressions of prayer and support. As we look ahead, I assure you that it is my intent to lead out of the 7 Pillars of Renewal that I articulated throughout the spring. We are reworking our Baptist renewal website and will have a revised site up and running very soon. We want to provide a mechanism for Baptist people to express their concerns and questions. It is not possible or advisable to try to interact with every comment or question online, but we do care and want to find ways to interact with good faith concerns. We want to hear your ideas and attempt to answer questions that may come our way. The SBC President represents the people. My job is to serve you. We’re already hard at work, so stay tuned for more information to come.

[Willy Rice @WillyRice]

Dear Southern Baptist family, we have much work to do. As we return to Baptist headquarters (our local churches) for a busy season of ministry, I want to thank you again for your many expressions of prayer and support. As we look ahead, I assure you that it is my intent to lead out of the 7 Pillars of Renewal that I articulated throughout the spring. We are reworking our Baptist renewal website and will have a revised site up and running very soon. We want to provide a mechanism for Baptist people to express their concerns and questions. It is not possible or advisable to try to interact with every comment or question online, but we do care and want to find ways to interact with good faith concerns. We want to hear your ideas and attempt to answer questions that may come our way. The SBC President represents the people. My job is to serve you. We’re already hard at work, so stay tuned for more information to come.

[P. Jesse Rine @PJesseRine]

OTD in 2023, I left the academy to launch @CAFF_HigherEd. The move was bittersweet b/c I loved teaching students & contributing to campus life, but it has been amazing to watch how the Lord has blessed our work. Here are some highlights as we celebrate CAFF's 3rd anniversary.🧵1/

[William Wolfe 🇺🇸 @WilliamWolfe]

Okay, you convinced us! One recap down! Had to get @jrwhitehead in today before he disappears into the woods with his boys for scout camp.

Make sure to subscribe here: https://t.co/z98cv5Y9g8

And look for it out early next week.

Will also record a roundtable recap with @samwebb1876, @rhett_burns, @Byzness early next week, to drop later in the week.

[Joshua Abbotoy 🇺🇸 @Byzness]

@martyrian_slave @merelyjwright “Nice guy” is NOT a compliment

[Roland Gunn 🇺🇸 @RolandGunnTN]

The landform known as the Highland Rim presents in two ways: 1) a rolling low plateau pockmarked with sinkholes/natural ponds. This is the landscape of the Pennyroyal, Lawrence County & Warren County. 2) Heavily eroded ridges & hollers. Jackson County is the best example of this as it is almost entirely ridges & hollers, with the valley of the Cumberland in the middle. But you can also find this pattern in places like Cheatham & Perry Counties.

[Rhett Burns @rhett_burns]

SBC Reflections #5

Getting down to business.

At its heart, the Annual Meeting is a business meeting. We ought to show up ready and able to do business. But it never seems like messengers really want to do that…

[Joshua Abbotoy 🇺🇸 @Byzness]

This sort of scandal is not confined to LDS

[thatbrian @Thatbrian]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its investment arm, Ensign Peak Advisors, were fined $5 million by the SEC for deliberately hiding over $32 billion in investments using secret shell companies.

They hid the money from members of the church.

The allegation: The church redirected tithing funds into its massive $200+ billion investment portfolio instead of using them for charity.

The LDS and Ensign Peak Advisors settled for a combined 5 million dollars.

Source

https://t.co/l0yoKWhIqm

[Joshua Abbotoy 🇺🇸 @Byzness]

My favorite thing about Rockwells is the extent to which they’ll be bear-hugging hyper local history.

Kudos to @contramordor and Ryan Green on excellent launch video and excited to see the finished product.

[Rockwells Mercantile Co. 🌲 @rockwellsmerc]

🚨FIRST MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

Rockwell’s Gas and Mercantile is no longer just a meme, it’s real. All of it. The first location is coming to Whitleyville, TN where its founders, C.Jay Engel and Ryan Green have recently moved their families. We hope to have the funds raised and the renovations and installations completed by late spring of 2027.

Americans have noticed the complete degradation of the American gas station and country convenience store. You see it. We see it. We all talk about it. Owned by foreigners, drenched in lotto and vape signs, filled with slop foods, and generally off-putting.

We don’t have to live like this. You know how gas stations used to look. You can picture the old country store. You remember seeing images of the vintage roadside diner. Rockwell’s is bringing all this back. We are partnering with locals and friends to stock our store and our diner with great products. And it’s going to be a blast.

Just weeks ago, we went under contract on an old community schoolhouse, built in the 1940s. It is the perfect location and has the perfect historical significance for a project like this. We are seeking to completely restore it, gut the parts that have decayed, and renew it into something that will attract folks from all over the area. Already, we have contracted with architects, gas station consultants, kitchen consultants, and builders to start the process of bringing forth this great vision.

Because we want to do this right, our calculated costs are in the $1.3 million range. We have filed the necessary paperwork for a full investment raise, which we will activate very shortly—and we anticipate filling it fast, due to the excitement around the project.

We’ll be launching a full website and merch store soon for those that want to participate and support the project from afar. We’ll soon be announcing brand collaborations with American heritage brands that you can support as well. Please DM us with questions. Suggestions. Partnership ideas.

We can’t let the doomers gaslight us: decline is not inevitable. We can rebuild. American owned, and proud of it, Rockwell’s will stand as a symbol of American restoration.

[Joshua Abbotoy 🇺🇸 @Byzness]

Siri, what’s the difference between “and” and “or”?

[William Wolfe 🇺🇸 @WilliamWolfe]

It is. But messengers take their cues from the leadership on the Platform, too. And when our leadership from the Platform appears uninterested in doing business or in allowing real debate, it prompts the messengers to think and act the same way.

As much as we might wish otherwise (I certainly do), that's just how people are and how crowds work.

[Joshua Abbotoy 🇺🇸 @Byzness]

Impressive achievement from David Dockery.

Not many of us are going to be turning around distressed institutions in our 80s.

[Baptist News Global @baptist_news]

All sanctions against Southwestern Seminary lifted https://t.co/BkrxbDpjks

[Joshua Abbotoy 🇺🇸 @Byzness]

It’s great to be S.B.C.

[Rhett Burns @rhett_burns]

SBC Reflection 3

God bless Mike Law.

Southern Baptists rightly passed the Truth & Unity Amendment, moved by Dr. Mohler..

This has been a 4-year battle to deal with the increasing problem of women pastors, which is really a battle for the authority & sufficiency of the Bible.