<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span id="m_-8570888818300857000gmail-docs-internal-guid-2e2211eb-7fff-d883-5465-af55a22cea88"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For this Sunday, December 15, 2019, theToday’s Issues group will discuss two articles from the December 5 issue of the New York Review of Books</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Page 19, David Quammen, “Suckers,” a review of The Mosquito: A Human History of our Deadliest Predator</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Page 27 Lindsey Hilsum, “</span><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/05/muslim-women-syria-isis/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Women’s Business</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,” a review of several books about woman and children held in prison camps after their husbands/fathers were killed as ISIS members.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><div><img src="cid:ii_k437k1x31" alt="image.png" width="161" height="216" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The group meets in the parlor of the Religious Education Building next to the church at 9:30 on Sunday mornings.  Please take a look at the readings and join our lively discussion, all are welcome. Of special interest to anyone who has been stung by a mosquito </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Women’s Business can be read on the NYR site without a password, click on the title agove. A copy of “Sluckers” is attached</span></p></span><br></div></div>