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Faith Made Welcome! A New Podcast brought to you by Commonwealth Baptist Church and This Most Unbelievable Life will launch in August 2020. This podcast will explore topics related to spiritual formation from the lens of a progressive baptist church’s faith community.
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Monday Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Today’s episode of Faith Made Welcome is another episode focused on the intersections and relationship between faith and science. For today’s episode, we draw the focus in quite specifically and look at public health, vaccination, religious liberty, and faith communities.
In this episode of the podcast, Cheri, Marty, and Paul are joined by special guest Dr. Heidi Lawrence. Heidi’s research into the history and narratives associated with vaccination choice takes center stage in this episode. Join us as we look at how faith and religious liberty might shape how individuals approach vaccination. Together we ask whether vaccination is an individual choice, a community responsibility, or a complex issue that sits at the nexus between the individual and the community. We look at how common themes from our podcast, fear and doubt, surface in discussions about vaccination. And, while there’s no Bible drill in this one, Heidi does throw out an important question for us all to consider: what role does conversation about health play in a community of faith? We look forward to beginning and continuing this conversation with the members and friends of CBC and the Faith Made Welcome podcast!
About Our Guest Heidi Lawrence
Heidi Y. Lawrence is an Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. As a medical humanist, her research focuses on language use and controversies involving medicine and science. In her book Vaccine Rhetorics (Ohio State University Press, 2020), she uses qualitative methods to study the beliefs and arguments that different groups (including physicians, parents, and young adults) use to describe their positions both for and against vaccination. Her other work studies problems of importance to public health (including sexual assault) to provide better understanding of how arguments work to constrain as well as open up new possibilities for policy response.
Scripture Mentioned this Episode
Today’s episode features a lot of indirect references to scripture. Here’s where you can look to read further on the Biblical references we make:
- Mark 10: 17-31 - We return to the Rich Man story discussed in Episode 3.
- Luke 20:20-26 - The ole’ render unto Caesar topic comes up.
- Romans 13:1-7 - We mention Paul’s reminders to follow the law of governing society.
- Matthew 22:39 - We note that there are a few places in this fine collection wherein we’re called to love one another.
Additional Materials Mentioned this Episode
We’ve elected to list these references in the order they appear:
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Cheri references Mutagen Ooze as being the substance she thinks of when she sees vaccines portrayed with glowing liquid.
- H. P. Lovecraft’s Re-Animator - Following Cheri’s TMNT reference, Paul describes promotional materials for this film that portrayed Dr. Herbert West wielding a glowing green syringe
- HBO’s John Adams - Paul references this show as an account of early inoculation practices.
- Edward Jenner - Both Paul and Heidi make reference Jenner and the development of the smallpox vaccine
- Jacobson v Massachusetts - Heidi references this case as one that set precedent for how issues of personal liberty and constitutional law intersect.
- Tuskegee Experiment - Heidi references this case, as did Graham Walker in Episode 6, as a reminder of instances wherein the public learned that government agencies were not being truthful in matters of health treatment
- Pandemrix Issues in Sweden - Heidi discusses issues regarding the H1N1 vaccine in Sweden that caused narcolepsy in patients with specific genetic markers.
- Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccination - Cheri and Paul note that this year’s flu vaccination is quadrivalent and Cheri’s excited that she now knows what that means!
About This Podcast
This podcast was envisioned as means to foster spiritual growth and conversations about faith, both within and beyond the faith community at Commonwealth Baptist Church. At the open of this episode, we discuss what spiritual formation means to our CBC pastors and the role community plays in our concept of faith.
Got a question or want to reach out to the Faith Made Welcome team? You can reach us at faithmadewelcome@gmail.com.
Faith Made Welcome is produced by Cheri Spiegel, Paul Fitzgerald and This Most Unbelievable Life.
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Great podcast guys! Heidi’s comments were interesting and insightful — especially at the intersection of faith and science
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
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