<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The Today's Issues group is meeting in the parlor of the Religious Education building next to the church at 9:30 on Sunday mornings.  All are welcome.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">This Sunday, we will be 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">From the August 19 issue, page 22, Anne Enright, "<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16NrtUq6SWhYXCoNJISuq7ahHRMxcj6cfkBVbrKOCNtI/edit?usp=sharing">The Burden of Yes</a>," a review of <i>Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consen</i>t</div><div class="gmail-attribution gmail-text-xs gmail-mb-0" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;padding:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;line-height:20px;font-family:"Ivar Text";margin-bottom:0px">by Katherine Angel<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">.  Katherine Angel is part of a new generation of female writers who are revisiting ideas of female submission.</span></div><div class="gmail-attribution gmail-text-xs gmail-mb-0" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;padding:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;line-height:20px;font-family:"Ivar Text";margin-bottom:0px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-attribution gmail-text-xs gmail-mb-0" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;padding:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;line-height:20px;font-family:"Ivar Text";margin-bottom:0px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">From the September 23 issue, page 10, Anna Louise Sussman, "<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pBD8m95QOFnHkQoB2lxkKEC05524ir634rwPGVBihK4/edit?usp=sharing">Conceiving the Future</a>," a review of three books about population trends, warming and global sperm counts. She argues that the argument that reducing human populations will help curb climate change has obvious appeal, but it overlooks several inconvenient facts.</span></div><div class="gmail-attribution gmail-text-xs gmail-mb-0" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;padding:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;line-height:20px;font-family:"Ivar Text";margin-bottom:0px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-attribution gmail-text-xs gmail-mb-0" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;padding:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;line-height:20px;font-family:"Ivar Text";margin-bottom:0px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Both essays are linked from this email.  Please do the reading and join our lively discussion.  </span></div></div></div></div></div>