Who Gets Damned and Why

Who Gets Damned and Why

Various centuries, consolidatedI have been paying attention to who gets damned across five centuries of institutional religion and the pattern is not complicated once you see it.The questioners. The ones who read outside the approved texts and ask why the approved...
The Bishop Called Me Damned

The Bishop Called Me Damned

Florence, 1473His name was Rinaldo Orsini. A bishop. My cousin by blood, which made the verdict more precise in its particular cruelty.I was fifteen years old. I had been in his household since infancy, sent north from Umbria after the deaths of both my parents. He...