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House-ad_SPO_FKB_new_0429133Readers, The Rev. Martin Elfert, AKA Father Knows Best, has been giving you spiritual advice for months now. He’s answered your questions about dating, children, prayer, marriage, suicide and much, much more.

Today FKB is taking the day off. Instead, we’re using it as a time to drum up more questions, as his mailbox is looking a little empty.

Elfert, a local Episcopal priest, once described his column as a cross between one Ann Landers and Dan Savage would write. With that, he wants to know: What questions do you have about love, life and faith?

Submit your questions online or fill out the form below. You can also email Elfert directly at melfert@stjohns-cathedral.org.

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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