Brandon Colbert

Middle School History teacher, writer, Nevada homesteader. Trying my best to love God and others.

[Brandon Colbert @brandoncolbert1]

@sage_stage What’s your secret?

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@sage_stage My feedback to such observers—everything I do is learner-centered. I already know this stuff. I’m doing it for the learners, hence, it is learner centered.

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@NoJesuitTricks Love my 2003 ram! Just put a new engine in last year, so it’ll be good for another 200k miles. Cheaper than dropping 70k on a new rig!

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@Protestia So weird, but I can’t look away…

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Since both our cars are twenty years old and have more than 140k miles on them, I just bring my tool bag and OBD code reader on every big trip, because check engine lights will come on.

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My 1.5 year old daughter has learned the trick of bedtime stalling that works: when story time is done and it’s time for bed she says “Bible” and of course I can’t say no to reading her a Bible story! She never asks for the Bible first though!

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

It's 25 March - the day everything happened

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@JosephMLombardo As a public school teacher: thank you!

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The Last of Us is the best show I’ve watched in a long time. Great acting, powerful story, despite it being based on a video game.

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As far as theology goes, I find myself writing fiction now, instead of a dissertation. This brings me life. Point is—I see God in all this.

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Three years ago right before covid I was put on the waitlist for a PhD program. I chose not to pursue it further due to job prospects and not wanting to live too far from family. So instead I got my teaching credential and started teaching middle school social studies.

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I’m glad I did. It’s satisfying work. It’s ministry. I can live in a rural area and raise my goats and be close to the wilderness. Im within a couple hours of my parents which is a blessing as some health problems have come up on their end.

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@dualravens Apparently the English word “Slav” and “slave” are closely related for a reason. It stems from the Viking slave trade out of Eastern Europe. Sort of explains the anti-Slavic prejudice that has existed in the Western European countries throughout the centuries.

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@geoffholsclaw The Divine Conspiracy is my go to!

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@jordanbpeterson Is this really the battle you want to fight? Christians have been working for the social good long before Marx. It stems from the idea that all are made in the image of God.

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Not going to lie, reading David Bentley Hart’s You Are Gods is making me rethink my open theism.

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@sage_stage I’ve just said “well I don’t want you in my class, so I guess we’ll both be happy.

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@Sophiologist_ Check out From Wild Man to Wise Man. He blends Franciscan theology with a little bit of Jung. It’s very much like Robert Bly with a Catholic-ish twist.

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Some rambling thoughts on grace and nature based on David Bentley Hart's book, "You are Gods." https://t.co/UN3PpTxcKF