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Frank Answers About Our Problem with Fasting

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:February 15, 2026
  • Post category:Body/fasting/Lent/spirituality
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In your Frank Answers dealing with the practices of Lent you stress the practice of fasting. Fasting is a problem for many people today. We don’t receive much guidance from…

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Frank Answers About Lent and the Belly

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  • Post published:February 15, 2026
  • Post category:fitness/Lent/spirituality/yoga
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Lent begins and ends with the belly. The Gospel reading on the First Sunday in Lent is the story of Jesus fasting in the wilderness and being tempted by the…

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Frank Answers About the Resurrection Body

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  • Post published:April 1, 2024
  • Post category:Body/resurrection

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…

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Frank Answers About the Spirit and Breath

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:May 29, 2023
  • Post category:Body/breath/Pentecost/Spirit/Wind

This article focuses on the relationship between the Holy Spirit and the breath, and the how the act of breathing helps us understand the role and work of the Holy…

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Frank Answers About the Ascension of Jesus

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:May 18, 2023
  • Post category:ascension of Jesus/resurrection

The Festival of the Ascension of our Lord is a major day in the Christian liturgical calendar. There's also some mystery about it. The homily here sorts out some of…

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Frank Answers About the Resurrection Body and Tattoos

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:April 15, 2023
  • Post category:Body/resurrection/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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Frank Answers About Jesus’s Easter Clothes

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:April 8, 2023
  • Post category:Body/clothes/Jesus/resurrection

Question: If Jesus was stripped for crucifixion, and  his clothes were divided and taken by the soldiers, and his body was wrapped in linens after his death for a quick…

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Frank Answers About the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:March 31, 2023
  • Post category:crucifixion/Jesus/passion

Meditations of the Seven Last Words of Christ have existed as a form of devotion since the Jesuits started it in the seventeen century. This is a three-hour series of…

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Read more about the article Frank Answers About Embodied Aging and Yoga

Frank Answers About Embodied Aging and Yoga

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  • Post published:January 10, 2023
  • Post category:aging/fitness/yoga

In a few months I will be eighty years old. Am I old yet? When people find out my age, they say I look younger than I am. I can’t…

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Frank Preaches on the Circumcision of Jesus

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:January 1, 2023
  • Post category:Baptism/Body/circumcision/Incarnation/Jesus

Sermon on the Circumcision and Name of Jesus. January 1, 2017 Texts: Galatians 4:4-7 4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman,…

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