Frank Answers About Beltane Fire and Maypoles
What is Beltane? Do Christians observe it? Some churches are having a fire on the beach at dawn on May 1 Beltane is not a Christian festival. It is rooted…
What is Beltane? Do Christians observe it? Some churches are having a fire on the beach at dawn on May 1 Beltane is not a Christian festival. It is rooted…
Here’s a question I received on the old “Frank Answers” column at Immanuel Lutheran Church in 2013. I re-posted it as a timely issue for Earth Day on my blog…
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?…
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…
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…
What is the relationship between Palm Sunday and the Passion? I have heard pastors complain that the movement from “Hosanna!” to “Crucify him!” is too abrupt, that Jesus’s entry into…
Rev. Frank,I have two children, a boy (14) and a girl (11) who, while basically good, well behaved, and followers of all the rules of modern society, look upon religion…
Dear Pastor Frank: You have addressed some sexual issues regarding boys, but not sexual abuse. Our son is a 17-year- old high school senior who plays on a hockey team.…
So, Pastor Frank, I'm a single young adult and I try to be a good Christian. I know that I should be chaste in thoughts and deeds, but I also…
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…