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…
Frank Answers About Human Sexuality and Religion
Question: Whether it is contraceptives, abortions, divorce, re-marriage, same-sex relationships, etc., the Catholic Church, and religions generally, seem obsessed about sex, and seek to exert control over believers in the…
Frank Answers About Life in the Holy Trinity
The Sunday after Pentecost in the Western liturgical calendar is the Festival of the Holy Trinity. Preachers often say that it’s the only Sunday of the year in which we…
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 Stations of the Cross
Praying the Stations of the Cross is popular on the Fridays of Lent and especially on Good Friday. The practice goes back to the Crusaders in the Middle Ages who…
Frank Answers About Motion and Human Bonding
Question: Why are processions with singing such powerful liturgical experiences? Answer: because of the physical principle of entrainment. Entrainment is two or more entities being attracted through vibrations. It requires…
