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 Naked Meditation
Question: I’ve been practicing meditation in the morning. I find it comfortable to sit in my underwear, but I’ve been thinking about meditating while naked. This is a new idea…
Frank Answers About Nudity and Pornography
This article was posted on the old blog during the pandemic (on 12/27/2020). I thought it was an interesting question and a topic that is worth retrieving with some amendment…
Frank Answers About Virtual Communion
During the COVID-19 pandemic gathering in churches for worship was discouraged. Congregations provided worship via Zoom or by live streaming. A big question was how to receive communion when the…
Frank Answers About Massage and Healing Touch
This question about getting a massage was asked in May 2021, when it seemed (prematurely) that we were emerging from the dark days of COVID-19: As a college guy, I…
Frank Answers About Accepting and Loving Your Body
Question: Dear Pastor Senn, I see you placing a lot of emphasis on embodiment, so I bring this question to you. I was raised in a conservative evangelical church in…
Martin Luther and the Body
This year (2017) we observe the 500th anniversary jubilee of the Reformation. I’m a cradle Lutheran who grew up in a church-going family, so I’ve had a long relationship with the reformer, Martin Luther. I don’t know when I first became…
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?…
