Find below Frank's answers to some of our questions:

 

Name: Frank Cottrell Boyce

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Selfie in words (describe yourself): Children’s writer 

 

What’s your Faith background? Cradle Catholic

 

Unusual talent? I can sleep anywhere anytime at the drop of a hat.

 

Three things still on your Bucket list: All the Hebrides, inner and outer.

 

Any strange phobias? I think I may have Trumpophobia. I have an irrational fear that he will destroy the World.

 

From across all history which three people would you invite for dinner and why? Seriously if I could have anyone in the world I would invite my own children - but when they were all about ten years old.

 

What keeps you believing in God? The continued outpouring of His grace I suppose.  Also effort. Faith is like creativity - sometimes it feels like there’s nothing there but if you keep turning up to practise it comes back.

 

Who has inspired you most on your faith journey and why? I have always had a huge buzz from being named after St. Francis. I feel he has grown up with me. When I was small he was a kind of saintly Doctor DoLittle talking to animals.  In my teens and twenties he was this radical anti-establshment figure. Then an environmentalist. And now I tend to focus on his emphasis on happiness.  All his anti-materialism and faith seem full of joy.

 

What springs to mind when you think of Methodists? The mighty mighty Wesleys. I’m always trying to figure out a way to tell their amazing story. I’m sure there’s a movie there somewhere.

 

What's your advice for the church in 2018? I’m with Pope Francis on this one - the shepherd should smell of sheep.