Author Archives: srholman

Webinar: Pandemics: Past, Present, Future

Posted on May 25, 2020

Fascinating new Webinar featuring experts from the Department of History at Ohio State University, who discuss past pandemics, from plague to influenza and HIV, to help better understand the current global health crisis. Panelists include Prof. John Brooke, Dr. Jim … Continue reading →

Posted in Educational resource, Online Lecture, Web resource

Being Neighborly in Berlin Prayers

Posted on May 24, 2020

Open for Worship: Outdoors Encouraged

Posted on May 19, 2020

Happy news from my favorite local public health department: More details online….. Details (pdf) (“…..ok, so how do we make this work?…….”)

Posted in News, Overheard, Web resource

Racial inequities in America: Glimpses from the Firehose

Posted on April 27, 2020

Below are true “jots”, tiny glimpses from the firehose of media on the current crisis; the two sources below may be important for classroom (and other) discussions of health ethics, religion, and racial disparities in the USA: “The African American … Continue reading →

Posted in Educational resource, Web resource

New! Infectious Historians (podcast)

Posted on April 24, 2020

Click on image above or here to learn more and listen!

Posted in Educational resource, Web resource

Tech-free worship across back gardens

Posted on April 22, 2020

“We are learning different ways of being Church…I read our Sunday Eucharist at noon with my elderly neighbour at a safe distance in my back garden..” -an Anglican priest in the U.K.

Posted in Overheard

It’s been said before

Posted on April 16, 2020

“Certainly that [person] were greedy of Life, who should desire to live when all the world were at an end…” -Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) “Religio Medici” [the Religion of a Physician] written about 1635