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Frank Answers About Being Solitary

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:July 25, 2023
  • Post category:meditation/nature/prayer/solitude/spirituality

Hello Pastor Frank. I've enjoyed reading your articles, especially about having a low libido and return to nature. A lot of members of my millennial generation are lonely and they're…

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Frank Answers About Being Naked Before God

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:July 27, 2022
  • Post category:naked before God/prayer

Question: I was intrigued by your example of embodied prayer in your blog article “About Masturbation and Prayer.” Did you get this idea from someplace or did you make it up? There…

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Frank Answers About Masturbation and Prayer

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:July 18, 2022
  • Post category:fantasizing/masturbation/prayer/sex

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…

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