The Full Testimony: All Twelve Tracks

The Full Testimony: All Twelve Tracks

Present Day, July 10, 2026Seven days. The complete shape of Sanctified Hunger:Well Trained opens the album because it describes the precondition: the systematic training of judgment out of the person who will eventually be asked to do something that requires the...
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...
Germany, 1636: Moving Through It

Germany, 1636: Moving Through It

The Rhineland, 1636The Thirty Years War had been running for eighteen years by the time I was moving through the Rhineland in the winter of 1636. A third of the German population was dead or had fled or was in the process of dying. I have seen other wars. This one had...
Why Holy War Cannot Be Metaphor

Why Holy War Cannot Be Metaphor

Present Day, July 4, 2026Some listeners will hear Holy War and experience it as a historical document, a meditation on something that happened in other centuries to other people. I understand why. History provides distance. Distance provides comfort.I am writing this...
The Day Both Songs Arrived

The Day Both Songs Arrived

Present Day, July 2, 2026I Am Crying and Holy War are in the world now. Two testimonies that belong together, that I kept together when the release schedule shifted rather than separate them, because they are the two sides of the same fact: what the thing witnessed...