The Priests of Plague

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

Footnotes:

1. Popular televangelist: 'We don't have a flu season'
2. Evangelical Trump adviser tells people to skip flu shots in favor of prayer
3. Liturgical Processions in the Black Death
4. THE BLACK DEATH AND ITS IMPACT ON THE CHURCH AND POPULAR RELIGION
5. The Black Death of Cats
6. Priests and the Black Death
7. When a Third of the World Died
8. Negative Shocks and Mass Persecutions
9. How a South Korean church helped fuel the spread of the coronavirus
10. Shadowy Church Is at Center of Coronavirus Outbreak in South Korea
11. Without guidance from the top, Americans have been left to figure out their own coronavirus solutions
12. One pastor was so outraged by church ban during Spanish flu that he went to jail
13. Resolution, addressed to City Council, Los Angeles, written by First Chuch of Christ, Scientist
14. In Italy and beyond, churches grapple with coronavirus
15. 'Superspreader' in South Korea infects nearly 40 people with coronavirus
16. The 1918 “Spanish Flu” in Spain

Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.