David Maillet

Trying to follow Jesus Christ | Husband & Dad | Casual, wandering researcher | Tea drinker | Author

[David Maillet @dmaillet]

After 10+ years of note collecting and organizing, I finally published my book on Public Speaking tips Amazon Kindle

This is a collection of notes from excellent speakers organized to help anyone, at any speaker level, improve their communication skills
https://t.co/YEmNNUyt8a

[David Maillet @dmaillet]

@SergioRocks Agreed! AI will help the software developer role shift into one focused on something much more creative.

Another example from recent years is the systems operation administrator, a role elevated by automation to become the SRE.

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

I am offended by Trump.
But I’m even more offended by the Christians who support him.

He just called an entire group of people garbage. And that is an insult to God.

Every person from Somalia is a precious child of God, made in the image of God.

God does not make trash.
No human being is garbage.

Rebuke it - in the name of Jesus.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

One cannot love God without extending one’s love to the poor. Love for our neighbor is tangible proof of the authenticity of our love for God. The Lord himself teaches us: “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me” (Mt 25:40). #DilexiTe

[David Maillet @dmaillet]

Jesus lived in a society whose survival depended on weather and growing seasons. Yet he said: Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Seek first God’s kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things (what you eat, drink, wear) will be given to you.

[David Maillet @dmaillet]

@jd_payne I found this helpful, from Mission Frontiers, The Impact of AI on Mission.

This covers both the possibilities/opportunities as well as the gotchas/risks

https://t.co/qt9RNCEuvw

[David Maillet @dmaillet]

@JennMGreenberg Wrestling with an actual kangaroo

[David Maillet @dmaillet]

@edstetzer Heard it was a good movie.

Can you confirm?! :-)

[David Maillet @dmaillet]

@maiab I had to bump up the rain threshold on mine to 1 inch because if we got just a little rain, it would skip.

[David Maillet @dmaillet]

@edstetzer I have not or heard a sermon on it.

Sometimes, I think of the positive side, that denominations are like human personalities. Each one expresses and emphasizes something a bit differently than the others. Together, we represent all that God has for us to be.

[David Maillet @dmaillet]

Just started “Intercultural Ministry” edited by @Gracejisunkim and Jann Aldredge-Clanton.
It’s going to be good!

“The more interracial and intercultural a congregation can become, the more possibility there is of building the reign of God here on earth.”

[David Maillet @dmaillet]

@mar15sa All are of interest it for now, thinking it through from the manager level

[David Maillet @dmaillet]

@mar15sa I wonder about psychological safety with remote work

In-person coworkers raise concerns anonymously via hallway conversations

Yet remote, comments posted via chat, even a direct message, has a long life, recorded & retained by the system

How to enable safety?

[David Maillet @dmaillet]

@daretomultiply For those of us in the West, rather than asking why (and linger on something or someone to blame), we could ask:

“what’s next?”
“what would Jesus do?”
“what DID Jesus do?”

Then do that.

[David Maillet @dmaillet]

@ShaneClaiborne A corollary approach would be to ask the question: “What did Jesus do?”

Then, go and do likewise

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

There’s an amazing contrast found between Genesis 11 (Tower of Babel) and Genesis 12 (The Call of Abraham).

In short, there are two ways of living:

1. Creating our own story and trying to build our own name.

2. Finding ourselves in God’s story and letting God name us.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Trump just lost on Birthright citizenship!

Federal District Judge Deborah Boardman has ruled that Trump can not withhold citizenship from children born to people in who are in America illegally or temporarily.

[David Maillet @dmaillet]

Hopefully this holds

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: A federal judge just stopped the expansion of the Trump administration's Alligator Alcatraz.

A big win for humanity.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

🚨Shackled migrants in Miami were forced to kneel and eat off the floor “like animals,” a harrowing scene advocates say exposes systemic cruelty in U.S. immigration jails — and a moral reckoning America can no longer ignore.
https://t.co/wzB2WQSfVZ

[Phil Vischer @philvischer]

More targeting of persecuted Christians by ICE.