The woke clergy who have put Church in peril

What a load of rubbish the Archbishop of Canterbury,

Justin Welby, does spout. Social media hasn’t destroyed the Church, as reported in last week’s Mail on Sunday. He and the former Archbishop Rowan Williams have done that.

They have both interfered in politics, and Welby is far too interested in voicing his woke opinions than he is in encouraging his wayward flock back into the fold of Christianity.

Nora Kent, Windsor

Justin Welby says that people don’t know the stories or narratives of the Christian faith. It’s hardly surprising when he himself sets the example of using his Easter sermon to criticise the Government.

Welby should spend more time preaching about Christianity and less on promoting his political beliefs.

N. Wootton, Wallasey, Wirral

From what I have seen lately, it’s the woke population within the Church that are destroying Christianity, not the online platforms giving people with colliding opinions a ‘very loud voice’.

B. Scott, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire

I agree with Justin Welby – social media is destroying Christian

heritage. It’s so important to know the narratives and the stories of the Christian faith, from the Good Samaritan to the Lost Sheep, but these lessons get lost within the vast online world.

We need to push for Sunday schools to be the norm again, for our children’s sake.

Diana Cooper, Exmoor

Not only did Justin Welby accuse social media of destroying Christian heritage, but Reverend Dr Michael Banner accused Christianity of spreading colonialism and wants the Church of England to make reparations for its ‘corporate and ancestral guilt’.

Pews might start to refill

in the Church of England if it returns to theology, instead of sociology.

David Fleming, Downham Market, Norfolk

The Church of England has been on a downward spiral long before social media. Thirty years ago, very few people went to church, and now it’s even fewer. Times have changed and they’re stuck in the 1800s. No one is interested any more.

A. McCartney, Aberdeen

I grew up going to church every Sunday. It taught me good values at the time, but it’s not relevant in the 21st Century. Even my parents don’t go now.

Taylor Allen, Dundee