Bishop Alan on social media
Good stuff from Bishop Alan Wilson , who has a comment piece in today's Church Times on social media and blogging. There is a slightly comic feel to it as he gently introduces the CT's readers to the big new world - "Twitter: a site for comments and links in a tiny format of 140 characters, called Tweets" - but he does it well, and still has room for some more insightful comments. In particular he is very strong on the challenge that online media present to the Church's way of doing things. How about this: New media are inherently anti-hierarchical - some bishops may not take kindly to a world where nobody cares who any of them are, in which they are only as good as their last job. It's quotes like that which make Alan one of my favourite bishops, even if he is rude about evangelicals sometimes. Most of our episcopal leaders have not yet grasped that, increasingly, authority has to be earned rather than assumed. Alan has, and he doesn't mind poking a b...