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Asking the Clergy: Morality and access to COVID-19 vaccines

This week's clergy discuss why getting the vaccine into as many arms as possible is imperative from a Jewish, Unitarian Universalist and medical ethics perspective.

God Squad: Are blessings fair?
Some people believe that the evil that befalls us is caused by our own sins and that our blessings are caused by our own virtues.
God Squad: RIP E.O. Wilson, the 'ant man'
The man who took up the evolutionary cudgel against religion was the brilliant heir to Darwin, the biologist E.O. Wilson, who died last month.
Asking the Clergy: Guarding against ministry burnout
This week's clergy discuss self-care and other ways they avoid thinking of joining the "great resignation."
Asking the Clergy: Marking the passage to adulthood
This week's clergy discuss life-cycle ceremonies observed by Long Islanders in Jewish, Hindu and Unitarian Universalist congregations.