<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-7be04526-7fff-ebd9-ffed-4c62b43706e3"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4"><span style="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">The Today's Issues group will meet at 9:30 <b style="">Eastern Standard Time </b>this Sunday in person in the parlor of the Religious Education buildings next to the church and on </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="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">Zoom </span></a><span style="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">    We will  discuss the following reading: </span></font></p><font size="4"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#0000ff" size="4">Beyond the Myth of Rural America or The Pitchfork of History</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4"><span style="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">Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts.        </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,serif">By Daniel Immerwahr  </span></font><span style="font-size:large;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"><i>The New Yorker</i>, October 20, 2023   </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:large;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">       Click here for a </span><span style="font-size:large;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><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EUbFv7GCNJl3Ou4g1xpP5Y5Z898mkKSJqeUPY62Q3NY/edit?usp=sharing" style="font-size:large;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="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">Printable Google Docs Copy</span></a></p><font size="4"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="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"><font size="4">And two short columns on the Israel/Gaza war:</font></span></p><font size="4"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4"><span style="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">David Brooks, “</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/12V-bOk-76uIp3gvBzrgbabMf4cS9z76lYZTjUfICDdc/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="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">Searching for Humanity in the Middle Eas</span></a><span style="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">t,”</span></font></p><font size="4"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-as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