Robert is joined by Miles Gray to discuss the history of priests and plagues.
Footnotes:

Popular televangelist: 'We don't have a flu season'

Evangelical Trump adviser tells people to skip flu shots in favor of prayer

Liturgical Processions in the Black Death

THE BLACK DEATH AND ITS IMPACT ON THE CHURCH AND POPULAR RELIGION

The Black Death of Cats

Priests and the Black Death

When a Third of the World Died

Negative Shocks and Mass Persecutions

How a South Korean church helped fuel the spread of the coronavirus

Shadowy Church Is at Center of Coronavirus Outbreak in South Korea

Without guidance from the top, Americans have been left to figure out their own coronavirus solutions

One pastor was so outraged by church ban during Spanish flu that he went to jail

Resolution, addressed to City Council, Los Angeles, written by First Chuch of Christ, Scientist

In Italy and beyond, churches grapple with coronavirus

'Superspreader' in South Korea infects nearly 40 people with coronavirus

The 1918 “Spanish Flu” in Spain


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