Who Gets Damned and Why

Who Gets Damned and Why

by | Jul 8, 2026 | Journal

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

by | Jun 29, 2026 | Journal

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...
Well Trained: The First Track

Well Trained: The First Track

by | Jun 15, 2026 | Journal

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...
The Bishop Called Me Damned

The Bishop Called Me Damned

by | Jun 6, 2026 | Journal

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...