Pandemic

Pastoring in a Pandemic QuickTake: Keeping our Polity Straight in a Pandemic

By Jonathan Leeman | 06.03.2020

Jonathan Leeman considers the challenges the coronavirus poses to church polity and how pastors can maintain biblical fidelity in the midst of the pandemic.

Some Reflections Growing Out Of The Recent Epidemic Of Influenza That Afflicted Our City

By Francis Grimke | 03.27.2020

Francis Grimke delivered this sermon on Sunday, November 3, 1918 at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D. C. after the outbreak of the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic.

How DC Churches Responded When the Government Banned Public Gatherings During the Spanish Flu of 1918

By Caleb Morell | 03.12.2020

The influenza of 1918 provides an example of how churches in Washington DC responded to a public health crisis and government orders to close churches