The furta sacra (or holy theft) of a saint’s bones in the Middle Ages was often viewed as a heroic act of rescuing a saint from people that possess his relics wrongfully. They were gleefully written about…
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Wæs ðu hal [1] fellow pilgrims all! This is a quick blog post to apologize for not posting anything for a long time and let the world know that I have not been assassinated by a shadowy…
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Fundamentalism in the cross and crescent. My most recent novel is “Crescent Tides,” an upcoming alternate history time travel story. As is indicated by its title, the book deals with the Muslim and Christian religions,…
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