Frank Answers About Accepting and Loving Your Body
Question: Dear Pastor Senn, I see you placing a lot of emphasis on embodiment, so I bring this question to you. I was raised in a conservative evangelical church in…
Frank Answers About Sex During COVID-19
(Photo: Getty) The COVID-19 virus seems to be communicated through the breath. The coronavirus affects the lungs. Millions around the world who catch the virus are dying from it. Medical…
Frank Answers About Returning to Nature
It’s that time of the year when we yearn to be outdoors. Those of us who live in cities seek parks and other natural spaces. But we’re a long way…
Frank Answers About the Body–God’s and Ours
Question: The body figures prominently in your recent writings. What is important to you as a liturgical theologian about the body? Frank answers: The body is of utmost importance to…
Frank Answers About the Meaning of the Body
The body has been an important field of study in just about every discipline. The old dichotomy between mind and body is no longer accepted. Neuroscience has increasingly demonstrated that…
Martin Luther and the Body
This year (2017) we observe the 500th anniversary jubilee of the Reformation. I’m a cradle Lutheran who grew up in a church-going family, so I’ve had a long relationship with the reformer, Martin Luther. I don’t know when I first became…
Frank Answers About Masturbation and Prayer
This was a question I answered in the Frank Answers on the Immanuel Lutheran Church web site in 2013, the year I retired. I felt that the church needed to…
Frank Answers About the Resurrection Body and Tattoos
Question: I have often wondered what form of our bodies we will have in the resurrection. Will we come back as our best possible selves? Will I have my tattoos?…
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