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...
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...
The General’s Words and the Five Centuries Behind Them

The General’s Words and the Five Centuries Behind Them

Present Day, June 26, 2026A United States military commander recently described the current conflict in the Persian Gulf as a holy war intended to bring about the second coming of Christ. He said this to the people he commands: the people who will carry out the...
What the Grief Actually Is

What the Grief Actually Is

Present Day, June 23, 2026I Am Crying requires some explanation because grief is a word that gets used loosely and what I mean by it is specific.Ordinary grief has a trajectory. It is sharpest at the moment of loss and then, for most people, it softens over time into...
Two Songs, One Day: July 1

Two Songs, One Day: July 1

Present Day, June 20, 2026I Am Crying and Holy War arrive together on July 1. I want to explain why these two, and why together.They are the two poles of what witness costs. Holy War is the external: what I have watched across five centuries of religiously sanctioned...