Frederick Diaz
Pastor, San Francisco, California
Articles by Frederick Diaz
Thoughts on Ministerial Internship
August 1964
Internship in the Christian ministry is that period of time when a beginning minister is placed under the tutelage of an older, more experienced ordained minister of the gospel. Like his counterpart in the medical…
Premarital Counseling
February 1966
AN AVERAGE of about 400,000 divorces have been granted annually in the United States alone during the past decade, roughly the equivalent of the population of a city as large as Louisville, Kentucky, or Newark, New Jersey.
Flow many…
The Positive Side of Ecumenicity
August 1966
WHILE we as a people cannot go along with the basic philosophy of ecumenicity, we certainly can take advantage of the dialog between Roman Catholicism and the separated brethren, or Protestants. It is to a certain extent unfortunate that…
Slapstick in the Sanctuary
November 1975
THEY GIGGLED, then chuckled, then roared with laughter. A few pulled out their hankies and wiped away the tears brought on by so much laughing. The performance was hilarious. The man up front was really funny. He had them constantly "rolling…
A Linguist Looks at Glossolalia
March 1974
GLOSSOLALIA, or speaking in tongues, is by now a familiar, if not a completely understood, phenomenon. Several years ago the average person would not have been aware of the meaning of the term glossolalia. Today, because of its widespread…