Frank Answers About Christmas As a Solstice Festival
Question: Is December 25 really the date of Christ’s birthday? Wasn’t Christmas invented by Christians to counter the pagan Roman sun festival? And aren’t a lot of Christmas symbols hold…
Frank Answers About Embodied Theology
A few years ago I was contacted by a European Catholic priest who is a member of a religious order and a writer on spirituality. His email included questions to…
Frank Answers About Nude Art in Churches
My question to myself (and to any who might answer in a comment): Is it appropriate to display nude art in places of Christian worship? The above scene greeted me…
Frank Answers About Being Naked Before God
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…
Frank Answers About Nakedness and Modesty
I'm amazed that a pastor would tackle the kind of questions about sexuality that you do, and also include so many images of naked bodies. I wonder if you could…
Frank Preaches on Marriage and Divorce
June has been traditionally the month for weddings. I am posting here a sermon I preached in 2021 based on lectionary readings that came up later in the summer. Texts:…
Frank Answers About Corporal Punishment
Father’s Day is approaching. In the past fathers administered corporal punishment in the family. That’s being reconsidered, but some Christians think spanking should be used for disciplining children. Girls are…
Frank Answers About Gay Pride
June is Gay Pride month. June was chosen for what has now become a global observance because the Stonewall Inn riots occurred in New York City’s Greenwich Village on June…
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?…
