Christ, Homer, And The Anointing Stone

Reflections on 'The Iliad' as a kind of liturgy for healing combat trauma

The Anointing Stone in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

For my family, today is a quiet day of sitting in silence, reading books, and waiting for the cold front to move through and drive these miserable 81-degree days out of our lives. I decided to take a short break from The Matter With Things and thumb through an equally big book that I orde…