In this episode of Frankly, Canon John talks with Mother Kate Salisbury in the final weeks of her eight-year tenure as Associate Rector of St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church and Pro-Cathedral. Mo. Kate’s many responsibilities in the...

Canon John welcomes Anne Hamburger, the award-winning founder, artistic director, and creative producer of En Garde Arts in New York City to Frankly. Through En Garde Arts, Annie put herself on the map and made her mar...

Canon John speaks with the Right Rev. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis. Bp. Jennifer is the first Black woman elected bishop of a diocese and, to her knowledge, the first bishop with a degree in hist...

Canon John relaunches Frankly in 2021 discussing the role and meaning of historic houses of worship with Ann Friedman, director of the Sacred Sites program of the New York Landmarks Conservancy. Friedman helps assess the prospects for ...

Canon John welcomes Eli Smith, musician and co-founder of the Brooklyn Folk Festival, which St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church has hosted since 2014. They discuss the longstanding partnership between the church and festival, and the points o...

Canon John addresses the impact on systemic racism on communities of color, the Church and the nation with veteran civil rights activist, sociologist, and founding Executive Director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing in Atlanta, Dr...

Canon John's first out-of-town guest of Frankly is Austin-based Greg Garrett, a film historian and professor of English at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and the author of A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Unfinished Journey from Ra...

Canon John welcomes JoAnne Simon, Assemblymember for New York State District 52, which includes St. Ann's Brooklyn Heights neighborhood. First elected in 2013, Ms. Simon describes her evolution in politics that began with advocacy with the deaf...

Canon John speaks with Pastor Gilford Monrose, Director of the Office of Faith Based and Clergy Initiatives for Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams about striking a balance as liaison to diverse communities in the borough in the midst of what...

Canon John's guest, Cecilia Clarke, President and CEO of the Brooklyn Community Foundation, shares the experience of launching the COVID-19 Response Fund and raising more than $3 million virtually overnight to fund community organizations addre...

Bishop William Franklin, assisting bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, takes a broad view of the value of ritual practice and makes the case to Canon John for the pro-cathedral to be a bellwether and community resource across all tr...

Canon John engages the Rev. Marie Tatro, Vicar for Community Justice Ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, about the challenges of standing with and supporting vulnerable neighbors through a pandemic.

Bishop Lawrence Provenzano, leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, makes the case to Canon John for faith informing decisive action to address ambiguities and the crisis of need caused by Covid-19.

Canon John dishes with Fr. Craig Townsend about the role of food in scripture and how grocery deliveries while in Covid-19 quarantine provided connection and communion with people nearby and far away.