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

Shooting unarmed and non-threatening clergy in the head with pepper balls does not cross the line, he says.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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

I just wish everybody saying the era of church growth is over could see the joy and passion on the faces of young people in my parish. They know this world is not right and they long for news that something better is out there.

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

Yeah, that's not my context. If we gave up on our assessment (or even halved it) our diocese would see significant cuts. If every parish with good ideas did that, we'd probably have enough to pay for 2 full-time positions.

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

We could talk about it, yes, if we agreed that church growth was worth pursuing instead of giving up on it!

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

As one who believes these things, I care so passionately about the future of the church for decades to come. It is important. It is necessary. And I refuse to give up on it.

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

And it is worthwhile to build accountability structures to withdraw preachers who preach something other than that good news.

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

And they will only hear it if there are institutional structures supporting their hearing it. It is worthwhile to spend time building a floor on God's foundation on which preachers can stand to proclaim that good news.

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

The good news that you are infinitely precious and beloved of the Creator of the universe and invited into relationship with that Creator and all the beings of creation is a message people need to hear.

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

The good news that all injustices of our world do not get the final say, that there is more to life than work and consumerism, that God calls us to love our neighbour and it's *hard* but our neighbour is called to love us too, we should bear one another's burdens is a message people need to hear.

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

Here's what I think about church growth in Canada in a mainline context in 2025

The good news that God so loved the world that God Incarnated and participate in our material reality, physically die, defeat the power of death over our lives, and give us eternal life is a message people need to hear.

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

Weeeeelllll this guy definitely claims that racism ended mainline institutional power circa 1965, which was interesting but also, speaking from a parish that’s grown 25% and from 10% BIPOC to 35% in the last 8 years I want to say nondiscrimination helps more than it hurts.

The end of empathy why white Protestants stopped loving their neighbors with a photo of the author

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

I’m unclear what ethical corner-cutting would encourage folks to come to church in this low-trust era. I would argue a focus on ethics and integrity is driving our growth.

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

….. oh boy

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

…… for men

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

Like growth is impossible or

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

I find plenty to argue about in re: the Coates/Klein analogy but am totally on the same page re: growth

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

What’s fb saying?

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

Also: most of the later western canon is much more legible if you are familiar with the Christian Bible, and much of the English language stuff it helps to know the Book of Common Prayer as well.

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

Being sadder or about more miserable people does not make a book more serious or worthy of critical engagement

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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

One thing I would love for us to normalize is that. So many of us have experienced this and yet there's such a taboo against saying so out loud.

I am eternally grateful for the folks here in Edmonton who said, "You're new in town, want to hang out?"

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

I remember years ago posting some Fanny Crosby lyrics and folks said that was why I got put on the UMC-TEC full communion dialogue committee. Then somebody else said if I kept it up they’d nominate me to dialogue with the baptists lololol

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

I’d forgotten how hard the latter verses of Come Ye Thankful People Come go ⚓️

Lyrics to vv. 2-4 which read

fruit as praise to God we yield;
wheat and tares together sown
are to joy or sorrow grown;
first the blade and then the ear,
then the full corn shall appear;
Lord of harvest, grant that we
wholesome grain and pure may be.
3 For the Lord our God shall come,
and shall take the harvest home;
from the field shall in that day
all offenses purge away,
giving angels charge at last
in the fire the tares to cast;
but the fruitful ears to store
in the garner evermore.
4 Even so, Lord, quickly come,
bring thy final harvest home;
gather thou thy people in,
free from sorrow, free from sin,
there, forever purified,
in thy presence to abide;
come, with all thine angels, come,
raise the glorious harvest home.
United Methodist Hymnal, 1989

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

Advent 4’s December 24

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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

And listen to our podcast episode about her! open.spotify.com/episode/0i2f...

S4 Episode 13: Florence Li Tim-Oi

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