Faith is a fool's errand, and yet the fool marches boldly into the fray...over and over again, for the story will be told until the lesson is learned. This story is not unique; countless souls have lost and found faith more than once though most never died for it - nor did they kill unless, of course, they found themselves in the midst of war. That is where a naïve priest lost his faith, where a young soldier fired his last bullet, and where a questioning student became a terrorist. The theater of war - where strings are pulled and fortunes are made. Why? The dusty ones hiding behind pedestal and podium do not care who lives or dies, who sits on a nation's throne, or who makes our myriad laws. The puppet masters care that we jump when our strings are pulled, that we fill the theater and bloody the stage. War is a sell-out show, a timeless tale. And the story will be told until the lesson is learned. Let us learn and move on. It is time.
A Ph.D. shelved in lieu of research inverted and traditional values abandoned, the work of Rachel Summers is what some have called a journey into antinomian mysteriosophy where socially sanctioned morality is turned on its head in order to shake out just a few drops of enlightenment. Summers holds degrees in History, Comparative religions, English Literature, and Philosophy, all centered on the late medieval era. Her first novel, CondAmnation, is a retelling of that era’s favored heroine Joan of Arc. Summers’ Joan, however, is not a holy virgin, not a Christian, and certainly nobody’s good girl. Neither, for that matter, is Summers.