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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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Read more about the article Frank Answers About Jesus’s Easter Clothes

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

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  • 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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Frank Answers About Embodied Aging and Yoga

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • 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 Answers About Dancing in Worship

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:January 7, 2023
  • Post category:dance/liturgy/worship

Question: It seems that liturgical dance is becoming more common in liturgies at church assemblies. Dancers are part of the procession or they enact Scripture readings. I feel that dance…

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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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Frank Answers About Sleeping Naked

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  • Post published:December 30, 2022
  • Post category:health/naked/sleeping

Question: You mention in your article about a low libido that sleeping naked might help because it's sensuous. I’ve read that there are health benefits to sleeping naked and would like…

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Frank Answers About Christmas As a Solstice Festival

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:December 1, 2022
  • Post category:Christmas/festival/Incarnation/winter

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…

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Frank Answers About Anointing the Sick and Massage

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  • Post published:October 18, 2022
  • Post category:human touch/liturgy

Question: Anointing the sick has gained in popularity. In my church it is offered in the Sunday Worship service and many people come forward for the laying on of hands…

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Frank Answers About Naked Freedom at Home

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  • Post published:September 12, 2022
  • Post category:home/naked

Question: Our son, a recent college graduate, is living and working at home---naked much of the time. He works on his computer in his bedroom, designing computer programs for customers,…

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