Church Times letter: People let off steam in social media in frustration over Bishops' parish re--organisation plans
An important letter in this week's Church Times (24 March 2023) from Rev Peter Bellenes on how much of 'aggression' in social media comment is triggered by a failure by managers to engage reasonably. "My observation of some areas of the Church of England is that, in plans for wholesale pastoral reorganisation, there is the same failure to engage'. Little wonder, then, that there is disappointment and anger. Click here to read the letter in full (it is the second on the Church Times letters page.) Nowhere is this more apparent than in Cornwall, where controversial On The Way plans have been micromanaged by the Episcopal College. Click here to read how the Bishop of St Germans, the Rt Rev Hugh Nelson, controlled the development of the On The Way plan in Carnmarth North deanery. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pbDdU3S3lrmE62d3UvJzW2cX3U8VXfHm/view?usp=sharing