What Does It Mean to “Carry the Fire”? The Road and the Human Soul

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Dr. Michelle Loris and Host William Baker discuss The Road by Cormac McCarthy.Michelle Loris, Ph.D., Psy.D. Author of two books on fiction and several papers on post-traumatic stress, Dr. Loris is the founding director of Sacred Heart University’s first tutoring and writing center and founded and chairs the department of Catholic Studies, the University’s academic signature core seminars—the Human Journey Seminars: Great Books in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, the Human Journey Colloquia series, and the Center for Catholic Studies.

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