I urge you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment, who was once useless to you but is now useful to [both] you and me. I am sending him, that is, my own heart, ...

No image of Onesimus exists but his work helped pave the way for modern ideas of vaccination, as shown in this engraving of Dr. Edward Jenner performing a smallpox vaccination. When a smallpox ...

Three hundred years ago, Boston was in the midst of another deadly health crisis: the spread of smallpox. In the 1721 smallpox epidemic, the disease infected more than half of the city and led to the ...

Paul, in concluding his letter to the Colossians, mentions two persons who had been touched by the Master’s hand and whose experience with Jesus illustrates the difference the Lord makes in every life ...

In the 1700s, an enslaved man named Onesimus shared a novel way to stave off smallpox during the Boston epidemic. Here’s his little-told story, and how the Atlantic slave trade and Indigenous medicine ...