I was listening to a podcast by Paul Zahl entitled “A Disease I Do Not Have the Courage to Name.”  The title comes from a now out-of-print book entitled  My Son Is a Splendid Driver, set during the Great Depression. In it, the protagonist’s mother is given a deadly STD by her husband, a traveling salesman. She feels ashamed—too ashamed to go to church.  “Mother had stopped going to church.