Frank Answers About Violence and Scapegoating
Question: There’s a lot of violence in the world today. In recent months we have seen violence erupt in American cities in response to ICE brutality against undocumented immigrants, documented…
Frank Answers About (Black) Body Image
I posted this before. I repost it here. Before COVID-19 I met a Black man who was originally from the Caribbean in a yoga class. Like me he was a…
Frank Answers About Male-on-Male Sex as an “Abomination”
Pastor Frank, in "Human Sexuality and Religion," you stated that God created men and women, and that same sex intermingling is common in nature. Why did God make men and women…
Frank Preaches About the Body and Blood of Christ
I have argued that the Feast of Corpus Christi, now called the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Roman Catholic Church, should be celebrated in Lutheran…
Frank Answers About Yoga Harnessing the Wind and Releasing the Spirit
There is a relationship between wind and spirit. In the Genesis 1 creation story they are one and the same. Wind shapes the world. Spirit brings life. Here wind propels…
This undated image provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences shows the Artist's impression of the Milky Way. Scientists in China and Australia released an updated 3D map of the Milky Way on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. They used 1,339 pulsating stars, young, newly catalogued stars bigger and brighter than our sun, to map the galaxys shape. (Xiaodian Chen/Chinese Academy of Sciences via AP) ORG XMIT: NY120
Frank Answers About the Element of Space
I have written articles on this blog about the four elements of the classical cosmology: (in order of appearance) air/wind, earth, fire, and water. I related each of these elements…
Frank Answers About the Green Man and His Friends
I originally posted this on Earth Day in 2020 during the pandemic when so many people around the world were quaranteening and the Earth's atmosphere seemed cleaner because there was…
Frank Answers About the Resurrection Body
This was a question I received and answered in the first “Frank Answers” posts while I was still Pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church. The affirmation of the resurrection of the…
Frank Answers About Chastity and Pornography
So, Pastor Frank, I'm a single young adult and I try to be a good Christian. I know that I should be chaste in thoughts and deeds, but I also…
Frank Answers About the Use of Incense
As a Lutheran I wonder why we might use incense during worship? I suspect that the pushback is largely anti-Catholicism, but sometimes more information is helpful. I’d be interested in…
