<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">The Today's Issues Group is resuming its weekly meetings after its summer break.  </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">The group meets at 9:30 on Sunday mornings in person in the parlor of the Religious </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">Education buildings next to the church and on Zoom  at:  </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://us0</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">    </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">We welcome new participants.  </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">Our custom is to decide each week what the next week's topics will be, so if you come to the first meeting you can </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">help to decide what we want to discuss in the following weeks.  We usually have two topics each week.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">We ask people to do the readings in advance if they </font><span style="font-size:large">can.  </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">Here are the suggested readings for this Sunday:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-fea145f0-7fff-7eaa-84c2-1f1b9ba46940"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/us-culture-moral-education-formation/674765/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Why Americans Are So Awful to One Another - The Atlantic</span></a><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">  If you don't subscribe to The Atlantic, click on this  </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U9_dLbQlpwloIjft4eYpBxjKKbo37ljGFba5lhZsVVw/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Google Docs File</span></a><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> which does not require a password.   If you have The Atlantic on paper, it is in the September issue. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/opinion/trump-indictment-cost-danger.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Opinion | The Prosecution of Donald Trump May Have Terrible Consequences - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</span></a></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div></div>