David Alan Hjelle
@dahjelle.bsky.social
Christ-follower; husband; father; avid reader; geek; and programmer at Icon Systems, Inc. (http://iconcmo.com) https://thehjellejar.com
@cferdinandi.bsky.social I noticed on kelpui.com/docs/compone... you mentioned that one ought to only use date pickers for dates that are in the near future or past. Is this primarily because of the amount of clicking to get to 50 years ago, or is there another usability issue I’m not thinking of?
Date Picker
Expose a calendar modal for selecting dates and times. Date Pick a date. Important! Only use date pickers for dates that are in the near future or past. They create usability issues for distant da...
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Thanks to @christianitytoday.bsky.social for inviting me to share my testimony. Jesus loves you so much! www.christianitytoday.com/2025/05/gosp...
The Gospel Comes for a Neo-Nazi - Christianity Today
A couple’s weekly dinner invitations helped transform me from an embittered skinhead to a senior pastor.
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Calling [my representatives] about Canada: politics-and-poetry.thehjellejar.com/calling-abou...
Calling about Canada – Politics & Poetry
I called my representatives again. This time, about the relationship of the United States with Canada. Here’s (roughly) what I said:
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The stranded astronauts are on their way back to planet Earth! One of them is an elder who checked on the sick shut-ins in his church while he was in space www.christianitytoday.com/2024/10/nasa...
When the Elder Calls—From Outer Space - Christianity Today
Two sick church members in their 90s got a pastoral “visit” from a friend—an astronaut stuck on the International Space Station.
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Trust Trust is such an integral and yet mostly hidden (at least for me) part of our information processing system. To further complicate things, it doesn't act by itself—people tend to trust things that fit their view of the world, and tend to be skeptical of things that seem unusual or…
Trust
Trust is such an integral and yet mostly hidden (at least for me) part of our information processing system. To further complicate things, it doesn't act by itself—people tend to trust things that fit their view of the world, and tend to be skeptical of things that seem unusual or surprising. This all makes sense. In everyday life, the last thing I need is to carefully evaluate everything coming in.
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Biblical Commands for Christians (while engaging in politics) I recently attended a talk by Ian Barrs about Christians and their involvement in politics. One of his many points was that we cannot ignore Biblical commands in whatever involvement in politics we have, from chatting with friends to…
Biblical Commands for Christians (while engaging in politics)
I recently attended a talk by Ian Barrs about Christians and their involvement in politics. One of his many points was that we cannot ignore Biblical commands in whatever involvement in politics we have, from chatting with friends to running for office. He gave a handful of examples of such commands: love other believers (John 13:34-35, John 17:20-21) love your neighbor (Luke 10:25-37)
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Calling my Representatives about Refugees and Immigration I called my representatives recently—for the first time in over 20 years! Here's (roughly) what I said: My name is David Hjelle, and I live in Fargo, North Dakota. I'm calling today because of I have deep concerns about recent executive…
Calling my Representatives about Refugees and Immigration
I called my representatives recently—for the first time in over 20 years! Here's (roughly) what I said: My name is David Hjelle, and I live in Fargo, North Dakota. I'm calling today because of I have deep concerns about recent executive orders regarding refugees and immigrants. I don't have all the answers! However, I would like to hold our country to a high standard, the same standard that I try hold myself and my family to: …
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Politics and the Jesus-Follower I've been reading The Faithful Spy to my son recently, the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Nazi Germany. Hindsight lends a lot of clarity on his moral decision-making. Bonhoeffer had a difficult lesson to learn: was his allegiance to Jesus one and the same as his…
Politics and the Jesus-Follower
I've been reading The Faithful Spy to my son recently, the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Nazi Germany. Hindsight lends a lot of clarity on his moral decision-making. Bonhoeffer had a difficult lesson to learn: was his allegiance to Jesus one and the same as his allegiance to Germany? It seems so obvious in hindsight—but it is not obvious to a fish that they live in water, when it is all they have ever known.
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“Smart but foolish” is a really bad combo. Unfortunately, it’s also an all-too-apt description of a lot of people with significant influence in the world. Wisdom and intelligence are not the same, and one of them is more important than the other… and contemporary American culture has it inverted.
A Christian statement supporting refugee resettlement (that you can sign): worldrelief.org/christiansta...
Christian Statement on Refugee Resettlement
Sustain the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program Urge President Trump to uphold his commitment to protecting persecuted Christians and for his administration
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@vjbarnett.bsky.social out of curiosity, do you have a Bonhoeffer biography you’d recommend? I have Bethge’s.
@jimmyhmiller.bsky.social How do you end up finding all these interesting papers, anyhow? (just curious — my source is basically you, the FoC podcast, and the occasional link from someone else)
@garonnevik.bsky.social We ended up getting several copies of your Katie Luther book as gifts…and heard last night from an older lady in our Bible study that she absolutely *loved* it and learned a lot. Looking forward to both giving out more and (finally) reading it myself!