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Frank Answers About Embodied Theology

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:August 22, 2022
  • Post category:naked before God/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…

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Frank Answers About Being Naked Before God

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:July 27, 2022
  • Post category:naked before God/prayer

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…

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Frank Answers About Masturbation and Prayer

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:July 18, 2022
  • Post category:fantasizing/masturbation/prayer/sex

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…

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Frank Answers About Naked Meditation

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:July 7, 2022
  • Post category:meditation/naked

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…

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Frank Answers About Nudity and Pornography

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:July 1, 2022
  • Post category:art/nude/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…

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Frank Answers About Virtual Communion

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:June 13, 2022
  • Post category:Body of Christ/Communion/Community

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…

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Frank Answers About Massage and Healing Touch

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:June 4, 2022
  • Post category:healing/human touch/massage

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…

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Frank Answers About Accepting and Loving Your Body

  • Post author:Frank Senn
  • Post published:June 1, 2022
  • Post category:male issue/masculinity

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…

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