Pastor's Wife Advocates for Vaccines and Receives Death Threats: A Call to Courage That Glorifies Jesus
Emily Smith is an epidemiologist at Baylor University, the wife of a Baptist pastor, and a mother. She has been working hard to help her fellow evangelicals understand the urgency of getting vaccinated against COVID-19. Though she has received vociferous criticism and even death threats, she is committed to her calling: “I just feel such a sense of obligation, especially from a Christian perspective, to be the Good Samaritan, and hopefully get people to band together and still wear their mask and get a vaccine.” Jamie Aten is executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at...