The What Love Demands Series

The What Love Demands Series

Five Books. One Long Conversation About Love.


Pastoral theology, clinical psychology, and lived experience — for the work of being known and choosing to know.

Dr. Sean E. Franklin · D.Min., Ed.S., NCC, NBCC

The Books

Book 1

Walk With Me

Companion Workbook


The slow, ordinary work of being genuinely present to another human being — and letting them be genuinely present to you.

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Amos 3:3

Book 2

The Truth About Relationships

Couples Workbook


Not for the marriage you wish you had, but for the marriage you actually have — and the one you are willing to build.

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled.
Hebrews 13:4

Book 3

Raising Humans

Parent Workbook


For parents raising children alongside a co-parent, and for parents raising children alone. Your children do not need perfect parents. They need honest, reflective ones.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6

Book 4

Raising Humans — Companion

Fillable Reflection Workbook


A returnable companion to Raising Humans. Designed to be worked through repeatedly across seasons of parenting.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children.
Deuteronomy 6:6–7

Book 5

The Quiet Man

Men's Workbook


For men. Not the performance of being a man — the actual interior life. Questions you have probably never been asked out loud.

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13

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