Robin J Dugall

Professor, Pastoral leader, Teacher and Musician

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

New in The Atlantic this morning: an extraordinary cover story by @rosehorowitch.

If you’re generally only reading tweets, emails, texts, and machine-generated sentences, you should really, really read this story (and after that, a novel!):

https://t.co/izCxIr0MW2

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

Cannot make this up, either.

@nytimes opinion has had four recent pieces about fatherhood and masculinity, with six authors:

Three women
A trans "man"
Two childless men

Not one father. The cultural elite contempt for dads runs so deep we don't even get to speak for ourselves.

[Robin J Dugall @rdugall]

@roddreher I hated to read your post because I was hoping, as you were, for a different outcome. If everything goes down the way the Admin is taking about, this is not what we expected. It appears that we do walk away weaker and diminished.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Evangelical Christian activists were mocked relentlessly for being right about everything

The mocking of the slippery slope was a war on basic pattern recognition

[Robin J Dugall @rdugall]

Source: Visual Capitalist - not a surprise. We are a country in decline. https://t.co/Djn0CyaKf5

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

5 money statistics that will change how you see the world 🧵

[Eric Hovind @erichovind]

I just finished an interview with Brad from Across Nigeria… and honestly, I’m sitting here stunned.

Today, he buried 14 Christians in a mass grave.
Two were infants.
One was a 4-year-old child.
And this isn’t some recycled internet story or political talking point. Brad was literally there today helping bury them. While on the way to investigate one attack, another Christian community was attacked. He said the violence is happening so fast they can barely keep up anymore.
What shocked me even more is this:
Brad shared that 72% of all Christians killed worldwide last year were killed in this region of Nigeria.
72%.
And hardly anybody is talking about it.
The mainstream media should be all over this. Instead, most people scrolling social media today have no idea our brothers and sisters in Christ are being slaughtered while churches are being forced underground.
Guys… this matters.
Please watch this interview.
Please pray for these families.
And PLEASE share this everywhere you can.
At this point, WE are the media.
WE are how people find out.
WE are the distribution network.
If enough ordinary people start sharing the truth, eventually the world will have to pay attention.
Watch the full conversation and help us get this story out.

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Corrected link

https://t.co/wPaOJSsSG9

[BibleProject @bibleproject]

Why does God give the people…his name?

Discover more about the 3rd Commandment at https://t.co/RTyafqToqN or check out the link in our bio.

https://t.co/JcowAub7aB

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🇺🇸 WARREN BUFFETT: "I can end the U.S. deficit problem in 5 minutes."

“You just pass a law that says that anytime there’s a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.”

[Robin J Dugall @rdugall]

@edstetzer Can you post your talk? Really interested in the whole thing! Very very important topic!

[GenXJen @GenXJenDen]

It wasn’t that long ago that Colorado, and Denver in particular, was one of the most attractive markets to live and build a business.

Things have changed.

We forgot what made us great—our Western ethos of hard work and unlimited possibility, small government, respect for the private sector, private property, individual rights and responsibilities, self-determination, clean and safe public spaces—and became entitled, controlling, progressive social engineers and blew it.

The Colorado Chamber Foundation’s 2025 Relocation Tracker documents lost opportunities and disturbing trends. It doesn’t even include business closures, but focuses on growth and where those investments are made.

In short: not here.

Poor policy decisions by the State Legislature, signed by the Gov, have made Colorado a place businesses want to leave or minimize their footprint. We’ve nagged, taxed, and fee’d our employers to the point they’re ghosting us or blocking our number, hoping the State (or City) will leave them alone.

The Chamber’s report is not an outlier.

It is another indicator that Colorado and Denver is moving in the wrong direction.

We ignore it to our peril.

H/t to @MichaelDBrown

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Joseph of Arimathea pulled a corpse off a cross with his bare hands.

Blood under his fingernails. The weight of a dead man sagging into his arms.

He wrapped God in linen, pressed the fabric into wounds that were still wet.

Nicodemus brought seventy-five pounds of burial spice. A king's funeral for a man the world just murdered.

They carried Him into a hole in the rock and rolled the stone shut.

And everything you've ever done went in with Him.
Every night you can't sleep because of what you did. Every morning, you can't look in the mirror. The thing you did to her. The thing you did to them. The
lie you've been carrying so long it feels like bone.

The version of you that drinks alone and pretends tomorrow will be different.

That man was buried with Christ.

Stone sealed. Done.
Not managed. Not in therapy. Not on a payment plan with God where you slowly earn your way back. Buried. In a tomb. Under rock. Gone.
Three days of silence. Three days of a cold body in the dark.

Then the stone moved.
And when He walked out, the grave clothes were folded on the slab. He didn't stumble out tangled in death. He left it sitting there like a man who's done
with the clothes he used to wear.
Lazarus needed someone to unwrap him. Death still clung to him even after he was breathing.
Jesus folded His own burial linen and walked out clean.

That's the difference between religion and resurrection. Religion unwraps you slowly. Asks you to manage your sin. Attend the class. Read the book. Try harder next week.
Resurrection says the man who walked into that tomb is dead. The man who walked out doesn't know him.
You're not fixing the old you. The old you is in a sealed tomb in Jerusalem, and he's not coming back.
The man reading this, the one who thinks he's too far gone, you're not too far. You're already buried. The funeral happened two thousand years
ago.
Now get up. The stone's already moved. The linen's already folded.

Walk out.

[BibleProject @bibleproject]

Jesus lives by God's wisdom. The result? We receive a bold new vision for our relationships.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

If your head is spinning from all the studies about problems facing young people, here's a list of 30 of them in one place.

Thanks to @tedgioia for giving us permission to reprint from his excellent substack, The Honest Broker

https://t.co/VUdXp1b14p

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Mamdani Condemns New Yorkers For Making Muslims Throw Bombs At Them https://t.co/9iADt2dlGq

[Robin J Dugall @rdugall]

@roddreher After Reading your piece I’m struck by the same concern (fear)…we can’t underestimate the fanaticism of the Iranian leadership even with the supreme leader gone. Insightful piece…

[Turning Point USA @TPUSA]

THE LINEUP FOR THE ALL-AMERICAN HALFTIME SHOW IS HERE! 🔥

Watch Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett THIS SUNDAY 🇺🇸

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

Harvard-Harris poll: Overwhelming super-majority of Americans oppose the lawless, chaotic, and dangerous “sanctuary” policies that have protected criminal illegal immigrants & fueled the mob violence and criminality in places like Minneapolis. Enough. This is basic common sense…