DEALING WITH DISEASE NOT NEW IN BAPTIST LIFE
April 10, 2020
By Charles Jones Baptist historian Canceling services due to illness is not new to Baptist life. Pandemics, epidemics and weather have all been part of our collective experience. In musty old church minutes, it’s not uncommon to see statements like “services canceled due to cholera” — or typhus or smallpox. John Newton (1732-1790), an early […]