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Episode 213: Amanda Held Opelt - The Honesty of Grief

The Bible For Normal People

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Do You Have a Keening for Paul?

The ancient irish would lament together, just death. And i think what was so beautiful to me about this ritual is just the affirmation, the permission to completely fall apart in your grief. To do that in a communal space together, just felt like a really, really powerful act to me. It's still practised in many other cultures around the world, even to this day. There's something very salmy about that,. of lamenting openly that, yes, that's right.

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