Here is a taste of Katha Pollitt’s piece at The Nation: I can just barely see how someone could think that virtually every doctor on the planet is wrong—after all, the medical consensus has been wrong before. But where’s the […]
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Vaccines work
WellSpan Health is a health care system that covers South-Central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. The WellSpan hospitals released this statement yesterday: As of today, at WellSpan Health hospitals we are now treating over 200 patients for COVID-19 once again and […]
“…never forget that God is the giver of all good things”
Letter to the Editor, The Pittsburgh Press, April 22, 1955
“I wonder if these parents know or realize what a great gift they are refusing”
Source: Letter to the Editor, Wilkes Barre (PA) Times Leader, March 8, 1957
“A materialist would prefer the Salk polio vaccine to God’s creation, the polio virus”
An interesting take from a letter to the editor of the Dayton (OH) Daily News, August 12, 1956:
“We thank God for Dr. Salk and the new polio vaccine”
From The Times Herald of Port Huron, Michigan: April 22, 1955:
Why there should be no “religious exemptions” to vaccine mandates
We have posted about Curtis Chang before. He is the co-founder of Christians and the Vaccine and a faculty member at Duke Divinity School. Here is a taste of his recent op-ed at The New York Times: First, there is […]
What happens when an Illinois middle-school history teacher wears a pro-vaccine mask to a “meet and greet” with parents?
I have been working with and training K-12 teachers for nearly two decades and Matt Lakemacher is one of the best middle school history teachers I know. His passion for the study of the past is contagious and his creativity […]
In my adult life I have never met so many people “doing research.” Here is one example of where such “research” is leading people.
I tweeted about “research” last night: I am talking to more and more people who will not take the COVID-19 vaccine, but have no problem taking the horse-deworming drug Ivermectin. They are “doing their research” despite the fact that the […]
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Are COVID masks and vaccination mandates a form of Christian persecution?
Short answer: No. Yesterday Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf issued a mask requirement for schools. I spent my evening talking/e-mailing with three different evangelical Christian friends who were upset about this. Two of the three people I communicated with were also […]
COVID-19 at Christian colleges
With the Delta variant moving rapidly through the campus of Liberty University and Cedarville University, we thought we would check-in on some other Christian colleges and universities to see how things are going. (NOTE: Some of these campuses started classes […]
Digby asks, “How many talkers will die for MAGA?
The number of pro-Trump, anti-vaxxer/anti-mandate talk radio hosts who have died of COVID-19 is growing. Over at Hullaballo blog, Heather Parton makes a list: Marc Bernier, the host of the Marc Bernier Show, compared the government’s vaccine strategy to the […]
Senior vice president of National Religious Broadcasting is fired for refusing to recant pro-vaccine statements
Here is Dan Darling earlier this month on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”: Here is Bob Smietana’s reporting at Religion News Service: The spokesman for a major evangelical nonprofit was fired for promoting vaccines on the MSNBC “Morning Joe” cable news show, Religion News […]
Alabama crowd boos Trump for recommending the vaccine
Back in February I live-tweeted Trump’s speech at CPAC: Some of you may recall a post I wrote in March 2021 about pro-Trump evangelical Franklin Graham’s efforts to get his followers vaccinated. It did not go well. Here were some […]
“And then I asked if they decided the prep their sister was undergoing for a very invasive ventilator was worth their anti-vaccination position”
Opinion writer Mary Stanik‘s mother has advanced congestive heart failure. Mary and her brother recently decided to place their mother in hospice care, but since they had yet to receive the breathing equipment she needed, a visit to the emergency […]
Northwestern University posted the names of unvaccinated students…in 1902
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Megachurches with celebrity pastors like John MacArthur led the way in the evangelical resistance to COVID-19 mandates
We’ve written a lot on this subject. See, for example: “What is going on with John MacArthur and Romans 13?“ “Evangelical pastor John MacArthur suggests churches that remain closed during COVID-19 are not ‘true’ churches“ “The Falkirk Center on the […]
Is this what Ronald Reagan meant by a “shining city on a hill”?
Today as I read New York Times writer Jamelle Bouie’s recent column on vaccines, I was struck by these words. Is it any surprise that millions of Americans treat this fundamentally social problem — how do we vaccinate enough people […]
The United States of America: Are we reaping what we’ve sown?
Don’t mess with the rights of Americans. We are individuals. We are free. Mask and vaccine mandates are tyrannical. They are un-American. Don’t people know that the Bill of Rights is divinely inspired? I am not convinced that the kind […]