David Franks

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July 2019

July 23, 2019

Asylum Song

Half Taiwanese, half white, I heard from random strangers, both black and white, growing up...

July 04, 2019

We are Know-Somethings: On the American Declaration of the Equal Dignity of Every Human

Happy Independence Day to you all! Political self-determination is a human necessity because it gives...

February 2019

February 24, 2019

In the End is the Beginning

Jürgen Moltmann’s book on eschatology, The Coming of God, came to my hands again recently....

January 2019

January 03, 2019

The Eros of Holy Friendship

Yesterday’s matins reading from Saint Gregory Nazianzen for the feast of two of the Cappadocian...

November 2018

November 14, 2018

Hierarchy and Obedience: An American Bishop Who Would Listen

Who knows what to make of the Holy See’s move to forestall the American bishops’...

September 2018

September 08, 2018

“The Minutes of Tallow Light”: Resistances of Love in the Hypnotic System of Power

The upper hand of power would extinguish the victim. From the totalitarian night of occupied...