Frank Answers About Jesus’s Easter Clothes
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…
Frank Answers About the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross
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…
Frank Answers About Our Problem with Fasting
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…
Frank Answers About Lent and the Belly
I posted this aricle several years ago, but it goes with the article about "Our Problems with Fasting." It is also related to the Gospel for the First Sunday in…
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 the Spirit and Breath
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…
Frank Answers About the Ascension of Jesus
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…
Frank Answers About Embodied Aging and 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…
Frank Preaches on the Circumcision of 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,…
Frank Preaches About Holy Irregular Families
Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year A of the Lectionary Matthew 1:18-25 18 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah* took place in this way. When his mother Mary had…
