<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The Today's Issues group is meeting at 9:30 on Sunday mornings in the Parlor of the Religious Education building next to the church, following social distancing guidelines.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">For this Sunday, February 14, we are discussing two essays from the New York Review of Books</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Feb 11 issue,  Elizabeth Kolbert, T<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u8htGlZdWKjmyC1B3i1mXuyW7PWpmxut2o_nmb_Tc8c/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">he Chemical Age</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Feb 25 issue, page 4, Fintan O'Toole, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jJCMAqFufXnuSs8_TM35_vOm0_Opke9BQoofTgZtRuI/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">The Trump Inheritance</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">An essay that may be of interest "<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">T<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/07/joe-manchin-senate-congress-466132" target="_blank">he Democratic version of John McCain'</a></span></div>As the critical swing vote in a 50-50 Senate, Joe Manchin has emerged as the most powerful man in Washington.<br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"> </div></div>