[Rowan] Williams outlined several challenges churches will encounter this century and urged them to use new means of communication and social media to spread the gospel more effectively.

"There is virtually nowhere you can go in the world where you won't see a mobile telephone. The church needs to learn how use these new means of communications more effectively for the sake of the gospel. If we have social media, they can also be media for communion," he said.

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1. Fradgan wrote: I would urge greater church involvement in Christianity. June 27, 2:37 am | [comment link]

2. J. Champlin wrote: I still cherish my small collection of writings by Rowan Williams and always will.  Anglican Identities, in particular, is a truly wonderful book.  The patient and reasoned response to Spong’s “Theses” some ten years or so ago was to the point—and frankly better than his absurdity deserved. But now one comes across a headline urging involvement in the environment and social media.  The conjunction of the two says it all. June 27, 11:39 am | [comment link]

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