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
Lent begins and ends with the belly. The Gospel reading on the First Sunday in Lent is the story of Jesus fasting in the wilderness and being tempted by 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 Preaches on Water, Wind, Fire and Baptism
Sermon for The Baptism of Our Lord. Based on readings in the Three-year Revised Common Lectionary. Year A: Isaiah 42:1-7; Psalm 29; Acts 10:34-38; Matthew 3:13-17 Year B: Genesis 1:1-5;…
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…
Frank Answers About Jesus and Male Intimacy
Question: What do you make of the “beloved disciple” in the New Testament? Is it possible that Jesus and John had a, let us say, very “intimate" relationship? Or, to…
