J.H. Ellis

Captivated by Christ. Fantasy writer. Journalist. Tweets may not be endorsements.

[J.H. Ellis @JudyHowardEllis]

Nuance, subtext, and the Obama speeches https://t.co/gl9jXZL3oF

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.

[J.H. Ellis @JudyHowardEllis]

Former president Barack Obama is delivering a masterclass on how to say a thing without saying a thing, and doing it so precisely, and without nastiness, so that you can't miss its meaning. School us on the civic space, Mr. President. #obamapresidentialcenter

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This is Crazy!

Two young women, Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks and Chloe Saintilan, were taking the Amtrak train this weekend and guess who was also riding on public transportation with them?

JOE BIDEN!

The women say Biden was “just sitting in the carriage with us.”

While the Trump family brings in billions of dollars into their business through corruption, Joe Biden is sitting with everyday Americans on Amtrak.

I think America made a huge mistake in 2024. Let's fix it in 2026.

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

HR called a candidate to offer her a role, but she didn’t answer.
Tried again. No response.

Later, the candidate called back crying.
She told the HR, “I’m sorry, I was helping my mother at the hospital. Please tell me it’s not bad news.”

When the HR told her she got the job, she couldn’t speak for a few seconds.
Then HR heard her whisper to her mom, “Mummy, I got the job offer.”

Behind every job offer, there’s a story of patience, pain and prayer.

Let’s never forget the human side of hiring.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

The history books quietly bypassed is that Barack Obama, during the most pressure-saturated nights of his presidency, would retreat alone to the Treaty Room on the second floor of the White House residence — not to strategize, not to take calls, but to handwrite personal letters to ten ordinary American citizens every single night, a practice he maintained with almost monastic devotion across all eight years, selecting the letters himself from the 40,000 that arrived daily at the White House, and his longtime correspondence director Fiona Reese confirmed that Obama would often weep privately while reading certain letters, folding them carefully before writing responses so personally detailed and emotionally present that recipients frequently described the experience of receiving them as the most significant moment of their lives, with one Ohio steelworker writing back to say that Obama's letter had physically stopped him from making a decision that would have permanently altered his family's future. What makes this practice almost unbearably moving is the detail that surfaced later — Obama never used a computer for these letters, always a black felt-tip pen, always legal yellow paper first as a draft, always rewritten onto White House stationery by hand a second time, because he believed, as he told historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in a rare private conversation later recounted in her 2018 work, that the physical act of pressing pen to paper forced a quality of attention that typing simply could not replicate, a philosophy rooted in his years as a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 2004 where he developed the conviction that democracy only functions when its leaders remain genuinely, uncomfortably close to the specific gravity of individual human suffering rather than processing it from behind the insulating distance of institutions and screens."

[Chuck Park @chuckforqueens]

Rev. Jesse Jackson showed up for the family of Vincent Chin and Asian Americans when few others would.

His Rainbow Coalition showed us the way to solidarity.

May he rest in peace.

[Talk Church @churchtalkative]

If we treated our Bibles like our phones.

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

[Carlos A. Rodríguez @CarlosHappyNPO]

I live in Bad Bunny’s hometown.

We shop where he worked as a bagger.

We deliver lunches in the community he was raised.

Members of his family have been volunteers at our non-profit.

And from here, we can tell the world: he is generous, he is genuine, he is talented, he is us.

[Lauren Thompson Boyd @laurentboyd1981]

The most terrifying detail about Noah's Ark isn't the size of the flood. It is the design of the boat.

If you look closely at the blueprints God gave Noah in Genesis 6, He was extremely specific.

He gave the exact length, width, and height. He specified the type of wood and the pitch to seal it.

In my little years, I have never thought of this, but God intentionally left out one crucial component. There was no steering wheel, no sail, and worse still, there was no engine.

Think about how scary that is.

Noah was building a massive vessel to survive a global storm, but he had zero control over it, or over where it went. He couldn't steer it away from rocks. He couldn't turn it into the waves. He couldn't aim for dry land. He was completely at the mercy of the water.

The Ark was not designed for navigation; just for floating.

Noah’s job was to be the Passenger, not the Captain.

God was the Captain.

This is a picture of your life right now.

You are trying to put a steering wheel in a boat that God can control, if you let Him…

[J.H. Ellis @JudyHowardEllis]

This.

[sixfootcandy @sixfootcandy]

I was holding a bottle of Paul Newman salad dressing when my niece asked me who Paul Newman was. I told her he was an actor, basically the Brad Pitt of my mom’s generation. Then she hit me with, “Who’s Brad Pitt?”

If anyone needs me, I’ll be at the senior center eating applesauce.

[J.H. Ellis @JudyHowardEllis]

Don't miss the Daniel David Wallace Writer's Christmas Market. Doors close at midnight!
https://t.co/ttP827rfXD

[J.H. Ellis @JudyHowardEllis]

The Easiest Christmas Gift for Writers https://t.co/CxAtrTdoTj

[J.C. Ryle @JCRyle]

Wow, this clip by Washer is triggering many. What Washer says here is what Ryle has written about in the past.

Ryle wrote...

“Ministers have sought to build churches with intellectual preaching, polished sermons, and rhetorical displays; but they have forgotten that the heart is the road to the understanding. People must feel before they will believe.”

“We may preach with perfect correctness of doctrine, language, and exposition, and yet produce no feeling, no conviction, no result.” True preaching must aim at affection, conscience, and will—not merely the conveyance of information.

“Let us take heed that we preach the truth warmly, affectionately, and experimentally… Let us labor to preach so that people shall feel we are in earnest, and that we speak because we believe and feel the things we say. This, under the grace of God, is the great secret of reaching hearts.”

[J.H. Ellis @JudyHowardEllis]

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#novelnovember
#novelsprint
#writerslift

[J.H. Ellis @JudyHowardEllis]

@zimranjacob Hi there! I would love to see your teaching document. Thanks so much for sharing.😀

[CSPAN @cspan]

Taps is played and the American flag is folded at the grave site of President Jimmy Carter.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation’s capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returns to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting Tuesday. https://t.co/n4wC9H0f4Z

[Carl Bernstein @carlbernstein]

Statement on Washington Post’s refusal to endorse presidential candidate.