DISCUSSION: Pandemic Scenarios: What Would be the Story of Pandemic Influenza in “Ourtown”?

COMMENT: Social Distancing and Faith Communities

Submitted by Charlotte Thompson on 12/4/07 9:30 AM

In times of crisis, people often turn (or re-turn) to their spiritual beliefs. In a pandemic with vast numbers of people ill, dying or dead, spiritual support will certainly be a great need. How might our communities prepare for meeting the spritiual, emotional, psychological needs of people under great duress yet avoid the group gatherings identified by social distancing?