BBC Radio Shropshire
BBCPippa White is 29 years old. Like many women of his age, he enjoys the music of Taylor Swift, touches the rugby and makes Tiktok videos in his free time.
The only difference? She is a vicar in the city of Whitchurb Shropshire, who shares glimpse on the scene or her unusual life to her thousands of followers in the application to share videos.
“It has been very, very positive,” White said about his audience’s response, either his congregation or his tens of thousands of followers on social networks.
She hopes that her Tiktok goes to modernization of the way her church communicates with the world in general.
Speaking to the BBC Radio Shropshire, Mrs. White said she had not raised in a religious house when she grew up in Norfolk, but that “she always felt comfortable” in the church of her people.
He recalled that while he argued careers with a university friend, he had joked about becoming a vicar.
“I have this moment of ray of ‘Oh, maybe I should look real [that]”She said.” He is only a child or snow from there. “
In addition to being a young vicar, Mrs. White is also breaking the publication of the mold in Tiktok, where she has accumulated millions of views.
His account, @Not_a_piegesss, is widely cheerful, whether he is making fun of awkward banks or buying the audience one day in his life.
Mrs. White, who says she does not earn money from social networks, believes it is important that young people are reflected in the Church of England.
“Trying to find the representation of young women in the church is quite complicated,” he said. “I simply had a time to think that if I was enough not to see anyone like me, why not just do it myself?”
His congregation, St Alkmund, has reacted well to its success in social networks, said White.
“You walk down the main street and someone will say” Oh, I saw your tik tok, “he said.
“[The parish] He loves energy because they see a young person in the church that is mostly approaching other young people, “added Mrs. White, noting that many of her major congregation” find hope in that. “
“It is something new, and keeps the church of England in the public eye in a new and refreshing way.
“Sometimes I think the Church of England is not very good to say what we are doing well,” he said, pointing out churches such as food banks and English lessons.
He added that “the representation of young Christians is one of the most conservative circles.”
“I am very liberal, I am very inclusive in my theology … So it’s about maintaining that perspective in the public sphere.”
