When the Episcopal Church’s Province III Youth Ministry Network earlier this month issued a set of guidelines for interacting with young people through social media, it was on the cutting edge of a growing effort to help guide ministers as they walk through the digital landscape.
Two or three years ago when Elizabeth Drescher was researching her book “Tweet if You ♥ Jesus,” she said, the “big conversation was about why do we need to do this at all — why does it matter?”
Now, she said, “that conversation is pretty much over ”¦ now they’re really starting to wrestle with what’s the best way to do that in light of our standards and practices for professional ministry. That’s just unfolding. There’s not really a clear standard for how that’s working.”