<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The Today's Issues group meets at 9:30 on Sunday mornings in person in the parlor of the Religious Education buildings next to the church and on Zoom at:  <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz0</span></a>  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">This Sunday, March 20, we will discuss two articles from the March 24 issue of 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">Page 12, Jerry Brown, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MifvpeghXV6sZEJqKwyYqlRFjICaZkgwsga4SiYI5y4/edit?usp=sharing">Washington's Crackpot Realism</a>.  "<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Framing the China threat as irredeemably antagonistic misses the reality that in order to survive, both countries must cooperate as well as compete."</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Page 41, Tim Flannery,<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yx6vYWVs0tzwPmc-_U7oXJzK1VkVGhztMI8CmQ7MYqg/edit?usp=sharing"> In Hot Water,</a> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">“The decline of coral reefs is accelerating so quickly that we may live to see the end of them.”</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Please do the readings, which are attached, and join our lively discussion in person on on Zoom.</span></div></div>