Frank Answers About the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross
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…
Frank Answers About the Disciplines of Lent
Question: Every year at the beginning of Lent we are invited to undertake Lenten disciplines which involve self-denial. It’s always hard to decide what to give up for Lent. I…
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 Yoga, Tantra, and Sex
Question: There seems to be a conservative Christian reaction to the practice of yoga. It is accused not only of being an alien spirituality but some forms of esoteric yoga…
Frank Answers About Halloween and Death
The popular folk holiday of Halloween comes at the end of harvest time in the northern hemisphere when Earth itself is shutting down for the winter. The pumpkins that are…
Frank Answers About Connecting with Earth’s Body
This is my second reflection on cosmology and yoga. The first was Frank Answers About Yoga Harnessing the Wind and Releasing the Spirit. This one is about the yoga body…
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 Yoga for Men
Question: I’ve been interested in doing yoga and have tried it a few times. How did you get into yoga? What attracted you to it? The classes seem to be…
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 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…
