Empathy and Truth: politics-and-poetry.thehjellejar.com/empathy-and-...

Thanks to @christianitytoday.bsky.social for inviting me to share my testimony. Jesus loves you so much! www.christianitytoday.com/2025/05/gosp...

American Gospel lyrics by Jon Guerra: politics-and-poetry.thehjellejar.com/american-gos...

Doubt is healthy: politics-and-poetry.thehjellejar.com/doubt-is-hea...

Calling [my representatives] about Canada: politics-and-poetry.thehjellejar.com/calling-abou...

A Christian Nation vs. Freedom of Conscience: politics-and-poetry.thehjellejar.com/a-christian-...

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...

Character Matters: politics-and-poetry.thehjellejar.com/character-ma...

The New Colossus: politics-and-poetry.thehjellejar.com/the-new-colo...

Faithfulness Despite Evil Governments: politics-and-poetry.thehjellejar.com/faithfulness...

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…

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…

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…

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…

An introduction: politics-and-poetry.thehjellejar.com/an-introduct...

“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...

@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!