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Podcast: Slate Gender and Society
Episode: 8: Conversion | When We All Get to Heaven
Description: In 1995 Rev. Jim Mitulski became HIV positive -- what's known as seroconversion. It was 14 years into the epidemic and people knew what HIV/AIDS was, how you got it, and how you could prevent it. And when Jim got sick, he got very sick. What was it like to become ill so publicly? How would the church and the community respond? And what could Jim possibly preach about on his first Sunday back?
“My Soul Doth Magnify” is from Camille Saint-Saens’ Christmas Oratorio, Op. 12, 1858.
“The 23rd Psalm (Dedicated to My Mother)” is by Bobby McFerrin.
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