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Jordan Haynie Ware

@godwelcomesall.bsky.social

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Texan by birth, Canadian by choice. Lover of word-based social media, Jesus, and dogs. Trans rights are human rights. She/her.

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · Nov 20

Jesus did not die for the sake of traditional gender roles

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 2h

It makes me weep with joy

Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 2h

I am a default collar person (partly due to my piety, partly because I am lazy about fashion and it gives me a bit of a uniform) and it always confuses people. I'm not uncomfortable with it though.

Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 2h

But the tab is so much more comfortable! I've switched to exclusively tab and I highly recommend to all pastors and priests of any churchpersonship.

I *do* identify as a priest, and I *do* find it hilarious how many people think the RCC started ordaining women w/o them noticing.

Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 3h

I log into Zoom meetings and they're already recording, they've already enabled their AI minute-taker, and nobody asked me how I feel about everything I say in this meeting being on the internet, in unsecured databases, forever.

Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 3h

And that's just in words! With people I actually know and whose permission I can seek before sharing their story! But somebody can film me running through an airport or in line in a store or sitting on a patio for literally any purpose and we've just normalized that.

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 3h

I am always mindful, in my own word-based social media use, that the people I meet and interact with are real people, some of whom might not prefer to have their stories shared on Bluesky. I anonymize where I can, and very often leave it in drafts because I can't anonymize it enough.

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 4h

In addition to the many problems he raises with a culture in which everything is television, I would add that our constant surveillance/filming culture is a problem. I did not consent to become content fodder for you! You aren't paying me to perform in your video!

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 5h

Essential reading www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

Everything Is Television

A theory of culture and attention

www.derekthompson.org

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 13h

At Pentecost someone responded to my open baptism call. I had a meeting today with my MLA who let her interns join. When I described a parish’s outreach ministry, an intern said she lived nearby, she’d volunteer. Time would fail me to tell of the signs of growth and hope and new life I am seeing.

Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 13h

A young person heard the story of Jesus and then decided to become a Christian. They googled churches w/in walking distance and found us. They haven’t missed a Sunday since. They’ve since brought their whole family. They’re all getting baptized at All Saints’. Won’t God do it!

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 13h

That’s why my message is get out of the way - it’s not that they are wrong or bad, it is that they are blocking good and effective ministry and shutting down as impossible things I am witnessing

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 13h

And I want to emphasize these people I am describing are feeling real and big feelings that deserve love and pastoral care. But letting those feelings drive leadership decision making is not the way.

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 13h

This grief is so powerful it overwhelms imagination - my grandchildren aren’t baptized, or were baptized but don’t attend in adulthood, I can’t imagine a future where children being baptized today will continue to want a church in adulthood.

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 13h

I more often encounter the grief of perceived failure - for priests, the decline of parishes served, for laity, the grief of children and grandchildren who do not attend.

This grief is understandable and worthy of care, but it cannot be the center of church strategy.

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 21h

My problem is that so few will say it to my face but they get published having said it elsewhere (*cough*) or behave as though decline is inevitable, probably deserved, possibly for the best

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23h

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A collage of four tweets from Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) discussing concerns about artificial intelligence.

Top left tweet: Walsh warns that within a year or two, people will be able to create indistinguishable fake videos for defamation, and that nothing is being done to prevent this.
Bottom left tweet: He says AI will destroy jobs, art, reality, and civilization, yet no action is being taken to stop it.
Top right tweet: He criticizes AI-generated films as soulless and meaningless, saying art requires human expression and that AI will be the “death of art.”
Bottom right tweet: Walsh argues that if a robot paints a picture, the robot is the artist, not the person prompting it, because the robot lacks consciousness and meaning.

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 23h

God is not done utilizing that witness and you don't have to agree but if you think it's impossible GET OUT OF THE WAY OF THOSE OF US WHO DO

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 23h

I am convinced that God wants a future where Bible truth about the deep deep love of Jesus and ethical commitments to the liberation of all with preferential option for the poor are central to the Church

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 23h

If you don't think the world still needs an orthodox gospel message that includes the LGBTQ+ community, get out of my way

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 23h

If you aren't committed to ensuring women and girls who crave a high sacramental tradition have a worshipping community that will ordain them, get out of my way

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 23h

If you don't feel the same responsibility that I do to make sure the children I am baptizing receive last rites when they are old, get out of my way

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 23h

I've gotten to the point of my ministry career where I just want to say: if you don't believe God wants us to exist in the future, that God will bring the Church into the future, then get out of my way ⚓

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 1d

This speech from Xander in Into the Woods suuuuuuuuucks

Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 1d

So I have previously said season 5 is one of the best seasons of Buffy, but I think it’s all in the second half.

Getting rid of Riley and the beginning of Joyce’s illness is a *bummer* y’all

#JordanWatchesBuffy

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