Fellow traveler. Lecturer in biblical studies, reconciliation, and dishwashing at @YWAMIreland. Doctoral student in Intercultural Studies at @fullerseminary.
Rostrevor, Northern Ireland
Joined January 2007
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I too should have known that those "live laugh love" qumran fragments that I bought at the Hobby Lobby in Blue Springs, Missouri were modern forgeries, but here we are
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 – at Rostrevor, Northern Ireland
the BBC coverage on the BBC scandal is the best monty python bit in many years, great work @JohnCleese and the lads
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
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
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 – at Strabane, Northern Ireland
Presbyterian moms just fed me fettuccini Alfredo and traybakes
Really testing my commitment to anabaptism tbh
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" – at Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Some of you haven't come to faith as an oppressed religious minority in second-century Mesopotamia, and it shows
Austin Roberts retweeted
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]
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.
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"
Can anyone help me ID this icon that's in my accommodation? I'm in Beirut, so maybe Maronite in origin?
Hi from Lebanon. Happy to report that I'm at a cozy 3.58 on the Stirling Children's Wellbeing Scale.
Post a gif of a famous person you've met that you're more conflicted about now than you were at the time
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