<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><div class="gmail_default">The <span class="gmail-il">Today</span>'s Issues group meets at 9:30 on Sunday Mornings in the parlor of the Religious Education building next to the church.  All participants are triple-vaccinated. We are now hybrid, to join us on Omicron free Zoom go to: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09" target="_blank" style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,51);font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">For this Sunday, January 2, 2022 we will discuss the following article: </div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-c41273a9-7fff-84d1-c9d3-52d833a77be0"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/us/first-they-fought-about-masks-then-over-the-soul-of-the-city.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Fight About Masks Reveals a Deep Schism in the Soul of a City</span></a></p><p style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">from the December 26 NY Times</p><p style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Click here for a<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/14JdFaiuLP1NQVwF254I8M38WGVAZa1F0F_jovZV6LnU/edit?usp=sharing"> printable Google Docs version</a> (without pictures or ads)</p><div><br></div></span><div class="gmail_default">For those of you who read it last week but missed the meeting we can also continue our discussion of:</div><div class="gmail_default">Barton Gellman, Trump's Next Coup has Already Begun, The Atlantic, December 6, 2921.  <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/january-6-insurrection-trump-coup-2024-election/620843/" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/january-6-insurrection-trump-coup-2024-election/620843/</a>   The entire issue is on the crisis in American democracy.  <br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,51);font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px">Please check out the reading and join our lively discussion.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>