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r St. John's Community,
I heard an epidemiologist speaking on a podcast recently, and he spoke about contagion, but not merely in terms of diseases. Ideas are contagious. Attitudes are contagious.
Interestingly, in order to protect ourselves from this contagious virus, we need contagious ideas and values that will lead to good practices being spread far and wide!
In the church, there is another kind of contagion, which is sometimes called evangelism. This is when we let the good news of Christ and the love of God spread from person to person until this world looks a little more like God's Kingdom.
While I am all for not being contagious when it comes to COVID-19, I want to remind us about good contagion. We need that right now. Think about what you can spread so that we can bring love, light and hope--in addition to good sense--as we make it through this together.
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Hand Washing.
If you are tired of singing "Happy Birthday" twice while washing your hands, you might instead try the Doxology, which also takes 20 seconds. Here's a fun little video showing how it's done:
