Austin Roberts @austinroberts

Fellow traveler. Lecturer in biblical studies, reconciliation, and dishwashing at @YWAMIreland. Doctoral student in Intercultural Studies at @fullerseminary. austinroberts.org Rostrevor, Northern Ireland Joined January 2007

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Austin Roberts @austinroberts

2 years ago

Somehow, the switch from a cute blue bird to a monolithic X might be the move that breaks it for me emotionally Just in case this is my last tweet, feel free to reach out on IG/🧵 austinroberts.89 Or drop in for a cup of coffee sometime

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2 years ago

the BBC coverage on the BBC scandal is the best monty python bit in many years, great work @JohnCleese and the lads

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2 years ago

Thinking about turning the @Ancestry page for my ancestor Margaret Ball into a place where people on the internet can come and foment insurrection against the tudors

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Austin Roberts @austinroberts

2 years ago

If Mario Golf on the Nintendo 64 taught me anything, Steph Curry and Klay Thompson are now unlocked as playable characters for the @Chiefs. Good work @tkelce and @PatrickMahomes

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Austin Roberts @austinroberts

2 years ago

Men today would rather march their private army towards Moscow than go to therapy

Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey

2 years ago

Men today would rather march their private army towards Moscow than go to therapy

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Austin Roberts @austinroberts

2 years ago

Spending a bit of the morning picturing Putin in a bunker, listening to "how to save a life" by the Fray on repeat on his Microsoft Zune

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2 years ago

Presbyterian moms just fed me fettuccini Alfredo and traybakes Really testing my commitment to anabaptism tbh

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Austin Roberts @austinroberts

2 years ago

Today, on father's day, I will sit in my car for a few minutes and enjoy the rain slapping my windshield, just as my dad would do before having to go in at the end of a workday As the seminarian in the family, I have begun the work of codifying this as a "spiritual discipline"

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2 years ago

The Irish Presbyterian hymnbook is surprisingly metal

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2 years ago

Some of you haven't come to faith as an oppressed religious minority in second-century Mesopotamia, and it shows

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Joshua Pease @joshuadpease

2 years ago

Since the Shiny Happy People doc came out quite a few of you started following me here. Hi there! You seem nice. Here’s a bit about me, a current pastor who not so long ago told God the church was a terrible idea, and how I ended up in the doc. This is a long one: [thread]

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Austin Roberts @austinroberts

2 years ago

Who's on your Mount Rushmore of thinking about death? I've got Sufjan Stevens, Teresa of Avila, Steve Jobs, and Bing Bong from Inside Out, not sure who I'd be able to replace with Greta Gerwig Barbie.

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Paul Renfro @paulmrenfro

2 years ago

In anticipation of Henry Kissinger’s birthday tomorrow, here’s an animated map of US bombs dropped on Laos from 1964–73. I often show this map to students in my US since 1877 survey and US since 1945 course.

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Austin Roberts @austinroberts

2 years ago

Looking for something to join that's like the wu-tang clan but for neo-anabaptist theologians

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Austin Roberts @austinroberts

2 years ago

I just saw a facebook post from a friend who gave us an update on the legos he is working on thinking about developing a new social media platform called "show and tell"

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Austin Roberts @austinroberts

2 years ago

Can anyone help me ID this icon that's in my accommodation? I'm in Beirut, so maybe Maronite in origin?

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2 years ago

Post a gif of a famous person you've met that you're more conflicted about now than you were at the time

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2 years ago

The stewardess on my @lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Beirut went out of her way to give me an extra sandwich because my layover got cut short and I wasn't able to get dinner I'm trying to find the words to simultaneously express my deep gratitude and also dunk on @Ryanair