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Christ, Homer, And The Anointing Stone

Christ, Homer, And The Anointing Stone

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

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Jan 01, 2022
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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…

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