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Podcast: The Lutheran Ladies' Lounge from KFUO Radio
Episode: #031: Rachel’s Trivia Challenge: Pandemics, Plagues, and the Church
Description: Theology meets epidemiology in the latest round of Rachel’s Trivia Challenge.
Drawing on two millennia of church and world history, Rachel quizzes the ladies on the long and complicated relationship between Christians and plagues. The resulting “grand tour of life in the midst of death” reveals clearly that in a grand, cosmic sense, there is nothing very “novel” about the coronavirus pandemic — and that when it comes to sharing Christ’s love and compassion with our neighbors in a time of contagion, this is #notourfirstrodeo.
Click to read Lyman Stone’s foreignpolicy.com article (which has been retitled since this episode was...