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 Feast That Is Never Satisfied

The Feast That Is Never Satisfied

Florence, 1474, and presentRinaldo was not an evil man in any simple sense. He was a man who had learned, within the institution that raised him, that certain things were his by right of his position: the deference of everyone below him in the hierarchy, the right to...
Twelve Tracks, Five Centuries

Twelve Tracks, Five Centuries

Present Day, June 18, 2026The full arc of Sanctified Hunger, as briefly as I can describe it:Well Trained is the precondition: the systematic surrender of judgment that institutions require before they can operate without resistance. I Was Never Yours is the refusal:...
Well Trained: The First Track

Well Trained: The First Track

Present Day, June 15, 2026The first track on Sanctified Hunger is called Well Trained. I chose it as the opening because it describes the precondition for everything that follows: the systematic training of human beings to surrender their own judgment in increments so...
Sanctified Hunger: What the Album Is

Sanctified Hunger: What the Album Is

Present Day, June 9, 2026Let me be precise about what Sanctified Hunger is and what it is not.It is not an atheist album. I am not arguing that God does not exist. I have had five hundred and sixty-eight years to gather evidence on that question and it remains...