[Though with the birth of my newest child I am making a few changes, I have not regularly updated this website in years. Hopefully more will follow…]

We hear in all things the reverberant Word of Love spoken by the Father. A Word of flesh and blood, of romance and solidarity. A singing Word, a bleeding Word. A Word of deep delight and universal intimacy. A Word infusing a New City into this world through hearts that will receive and in turn communicate the very eros of God. 

To serve this Word is the greatest joy. 

My name is David Franks. I am a poet, theologian, and activist, eager as you are for the breaking-through of divine love despite the granitic resistance the world and each of our hearts puts up.

Years ago, God led me into a dark night. From exilic agony came the writing of poetry and the beginning of a new life, one hopefully closer to the crucified Heart of Jesus.

"I'm from Pine Bluff Arkansas and I'm a fugitive from the ways of this world." (Cormac McCarthy, Child of God)