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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Just saw this in the photocopy room. I guess this is where we’re at now.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Yes Jesus does save, but you’re still a fascist sympathizer, Chris Tomlin.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Some of British Columbia’s coastal mountains bathed in sunlight this morning.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Spending the day atop Burnaby Mountain with BC Social Studies educators. Keynote this morning by Andrew Coyne, one of Canada’s leading political journalists.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Two years ago in San Diego, I accepted a nomination to lead our western regional chapter. This weekend, we wrapped up our first-ever Canadian 🇨🇦 conference and the first to be hosted in a high school.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Years ago, a mentor encouraged me to “find my people” as part of my professional life. I’m grateful to say that one such group has been the Conference on @faithandhistory — warm, hospitable, and thoughtfully challenging.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

A towering figure who cultivated a “prophetic imagination” that nourished gentle, holy resistance to the violence and oppression of our empires. Rest in peace and rise in glory, Walter!

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Historians/Educator friends: You heard it here first: the Western Regional @faithandhistory Call for Papers has been EXTENDED! Join us in British Columbia 🇨🇦 Oct. 16-18. Ignore the deadline currently on the site! ✉️socialstudies@mypacificacademy.net faithandhistory.org/conferences/

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I was humbled to be at Kelly Ingram Park in downtown Birmingham, Alabama back in October and I’d love to connect this for my #IBHistory students.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Return of the patio. For those who used to follow me on Twitter, I’ve flown a Cascadia flag for years. Now is the time for Canada. Elbows up!

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Historian @kkdumez.bsky.social and her excellent “Jesus and John Wayne” cited in in Gary Mason’s piece in @theglobeandmail.com this weekend 🇨🇦.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

🇨🇦 Canadian beef, Canadian aged cheddar, BC-grown tomato & onion, and Canadian condiments. The bun is from a local bakery. 🇨🇦 Okay, the lettuce 🥬 was grown in Salinas, CA, but it gets a pass because I love California 🌅 and the Salinas Valley. Trickier to source lettuce in February. Be real.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Just a couple of Canadian millennials completing the @theglobeandmail.com crossword on a Saturday evening. 🇨🇦

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

One of my favourite historians is California-based Rick Kennedy whose recent “spiritual history, environmental study, and sailing memoir of Southern California’s coast” arrived on my porch today. I can’t wait to dive in.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

A common and very understandable sentiment is that the news is often “just too much.” As a Social Studies teacher, I have a pretty high tolerance for the tensions of our political, social, and economic complexities. But tonight, rather than more headlines, it’s Leonard Cohen’s “You Want It Darker.”

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I always read the obituaries. The stuff of life. The Sunday NY Times remains a ritual. In print is rare yet preferred. Usually acquired at Village Books in Fairhaven, but I found a stack today in a shop in Ambleside on Vancouver’s North Shore.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Wrapping up an incredible week of collaboration and learning in Florida with some phenomenal educators from across North America, including dozens of Canadians (none of us were complaining).

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It’s an International Baccalaureate (IB) training week where I first began more than 10 years ago. Florida’s Gulf Coast, & St. Pete in particular, is emerging from the effects of Hurricanes Helene & Milton; hundreds of educators from across N. America coming to town seems like a big boost. ☀️

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Sometimes professional development means taking one for the team and heading to Florida in December.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

To everything turn, turn, turn, there is a season… Practicing some new-to-me music amid some familiar favourites for the first Sunday of Advent. 🎹

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

To everything turn, turn, turn, there is a season… Practicing some new-to-me music amid some familiar favourites for the first Sunday of Advent. 🎹

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I snapped this pic in front of Birmingham, Alabama’s city hall last month. Today, we were discussing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and this quotation from Lyndon B. Johnson was part of an assigned reading for students.

LJB quotation in front of Birmingham, AL city hall.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Post you from a different era. [circa 1995, Washington, DC]

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Fun memory from the old site (I sound like my grandparents who spoke of “the old country”): I used to tweet a bunch from my back patio with my #Cascadia flag flying (strong Canadian federalist here, but love me some #PNW regionalism too).

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline (but remember to include alt text).

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hey, Bluesky! As this place really ramps up, a (re)introduction is in order. I’m enjoying the delightful reunions with online friends of the Twitter diaspora and, thanks in part to the starter pack phenomenon, a whole bunch of new followers as well. Fabulous.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Makin’ some noise this Sunday morning.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Arkells rocked Vancouver last night. 🤘 They started jamming at a rental house on Arkell Street in Westdale (Hamilton, Ontario) when they were students at McMaster University.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Saddened to learn of former BC Premier John Horgan’s death yesterday. Thank you for your service to our province, John. It was cut short. [📸 BC Teacher’s Instititute for Parliamentary Democracy, 2017]

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

I’ll be passing through California’s Salinas Valley in a couple of weeks and I will finally pay a visit to the National Steinbeck Center. My twelfth-grade English teacher, Mr. Hackenberg, would be proud. I can still hear him reading “Of Mice and Men” aloud to us.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

On its centennial, I’m listening through George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” which debuted in Manhattan on February 12, 1924. On the turntable is the 1958 Leonard Bernstein recording.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Christmastime in Cascadia. *when it’s not raining

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

This soundtrack makes driving around town on a December weekend even a bit fun. 😊

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

I am so looking forward to this conversation on Monday. What an honour to facilitate significant voices reflecting on the Conference on Faith and History. See link for details. faithandhistory.org/virtual-coff...

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

I just submitted my last paper at Fuller Seminary!! ✅ Rather than more answers, I think I know how to ask better questions.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Finishing this weekend! 🧑🏻‍💻📚 … although amid Vancouver 🌧️ (probably just as well haha)

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

I thought this was the new design for Ontario Place.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

That’s my high school’s cafeteria!

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Book launch for Diary of a Wimpy Kid “No Brainer” with author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney. Mount Baker Theater in Bellingham, WA. What a fun night with our elementary school kid!

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