The Reverend Frances Margaret Young, OBE, FBA (born 1939[1]) is a British Christian theologian and Methodist minister.
In 1984, she was ordained as a Methodist minister, and has combined preaching in a local Circuit and pursuing her academic career.
In 1998, she was awarded an OBE for services to theology and in 2004, elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
She delivered her sermon at the Eucharist service at which the then-Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, presided.
She served as editor of volumes 39–43 of the Studia Patristica and wrote academic and more popular theological writings, drawing on her work on the New Testament and on Christianity in its formative centuries, but also on her experience as the mother of a son (Arthur) who was born with profound physical and mental disabilities.