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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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