<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-87aeb4e6-7fff-2144-3bc0-880f8643cc54"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Georgia;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 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:  </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:14pt;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><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Georgia;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><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This Sunday,  August 28, our discussion will focus on election denialism and anti-government activism, gerrymandering, and Liz Cheney’s political future.  For readings we suggest: </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">From page 42 of the August 21 New York Times Magazine: </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/magazine/arizona-republicans-democracy.html?campaign_id=52&emc=edit_ma_20220819&instance_id=69652&nl=the-new-york-times-magazine&regi_id=57969815&segment_id=101801&te=1&user_id=6bb6896b7988f482c570e605b634e27d" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Arizona Republican Party’s Anti-Democracy Experiment - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</span></a><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Georgia;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 anyone without a Times subscription, here is a </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kWMJRbMmSWUfOJcnDg-OE0M2dz2-_RwroLIxf7_sEAU/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Printable Copy</span></a><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Georgia;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><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">From page 65 of the August 22 New Yorker magazine, Lewis Menard, </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/121GoL22vVXyxqAU6yU3oRt20bUhW_V3X/view?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Drawing Lines: Our Undemocratic Democracy</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  On gerrymandering.  </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SnRDXJ9PEMUknBUwI3sxMmd_P6AiCbh1ld6FXzpw8Lo/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Liz Cheyney for President? </span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Two essays from the New Republic.</span></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span></div></div></div>