<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,255)">The Today's Issues group this morning discussed a very good article from <i>The Atlantic </i>by Michael Gerson on this topic ("How Evangelicals Lost Their Way - And Got Hooked by Donald Trump"). Let me know if you it forwarded to you.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,255)">Steve M<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 6:49 AM, Peg Clifford via Worship <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:worship@fuusm.org" target="_blank">worship@fuusm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>
<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">"There have been any number of books trying to explain to liberals the mindset of people who voted for President Trump. One of the very best of these is “</span><a href="http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=pMJKdIFVI6rKtFy4slVtDzAfwTk1NBGwJUs9WJHz1uW1fzJMVaaux9axLhemhsMmkWtB5JPJA8M=&campaign_id=45&instance_id=529&segment_id=615&user_id=ff496774bfcc98ca279cd3b383438eaa®i_id=54077773" style="font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(50,104,145);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Strangers in Their Own Land</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">,” by Arlie Hochschild; I recently read it and really recommend it. Hochschild is a Berkeley sociologist who writes respectfully, even warmly, of the Louisiana voters she hung out with, and I think they will feel they have been fairly treated as she captures their frustrations, concerns and resentments.</span>"</div><div><br></div><div>Nicholas Kristoff New York TImes. <br></div><div><br></div><div>So I looked up the book.<a href="https://thenewpress.com/books/strangers-their-own-land" target="_blank">https://thenewpress.com/<wbr>books/strangers-their-own-land</a></div><div><br></div><div>
<div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-name-title m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-type-ds m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-label-hidden" style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-items"><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-item m_4725424378319727901even"><h2 class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-title_lg" style="margin:0px;line-height:1;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(40,40,40);border:none"><font size="2">Strangers in Their Own Land</font></h2></div></div></div><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-bk_subtitle" style="line-height:1;margin:0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><i><b>Anger and Mourning on the American Right</b></i></div><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-author_multi_field" style="margin:20px 4px 20px 0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-view m_4725424378319727901gmail-view-books-author-names m_4725424378319727901gmail-view-id-books_author_names m_4725424378319727901gmail-view-display-id-block m_4725424378319727901gmail-view-dom-id-e064617d3b1de575da3de7ca484efb3d" style="font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;margin:20px 4px 20px 0px"><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-view-content" style="font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;display:inline"><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-author-list"><ul class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-author" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><li class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-views-row m_4725424378319727901gmail-views-row-1" style="display:inline"><a href="https://thenewpress.com/authors/arlie-russell-hochschild" style="color:rgb(40,40,40);text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;padding:0px;margin:0px 8px 0px 0px" target="_blank"><b>Arlie Russell Hochschild</b></a></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-name-field-extra-byline m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-type-text-long m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-label-hidden" style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-items"><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-item m_4725424378319727901even"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">With a new afterword by the author and a new reading group guide</p></div></div></div><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-name-field-keynote m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-type-text-long m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-label-hidden" style="font-family:"lucida grande",arial;line-height:1.2;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-items"><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-item m_4725424378319727901even"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em"><font color="#0000ff"><b>The National Book Award Finalist and <em>New York Times</em> bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump</b></font></p></div></div></div><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-name-field-lead-quote m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-type-text-long m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-label-hidden" style="font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-items"><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-item m_4725424378319727901even"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em"><font color="#0000ff"><b>“A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Pa</b></font><font style="font-size:16px;font-weight:400" color="#282828">rty. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book.” —Jason DeParle,</font><span style="font-size:16px;font-weight:400;color:rgb(40,40,40)"> </span><em style="font-size:16px;font-weight:400;color:rgb(40,40,40)">The New York Times Book Review</em></p></div></div></div><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-name-field-title-awards m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-type-text-long m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-label-hidden" style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-items"><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-item m_4725424378319727901even"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">Finalist, National Book Award 2016<br>One of “6 Books to Understand Trump’s Win” according to the<span> </span><em>New York Times</em><span> </span>the day after the election</p></div></div></div><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-name-body m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-type-text-with-summary m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-label-hidden" style="clear:both;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-items"><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-item m_4725424378319727901even"><p style="font-weight:400;margin:0px 0px 1.2em">When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned<br>to<span> </span><em>Strangers in Their Own Land</em><span> </span>to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the<span> </span><em>New Republic</em>, “Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild’s ‘strangers in their own land’ and a new elite.” Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called “humble and important” by David Brooks and “masterly” by Atul Gawande, Hochschild’s book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">The paperback edition will feature a new afterword by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, a<b>nd will also include a readers’ group guide at the back of the book.</b></p></div></div></div><div class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-field m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-name-field-categories m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-type-taxonomy-term-reference m_4725424378319727901gmail-field-label-inline m_4725424378319727901gmail-clearfix" style="margin:14px 0px 0px;font-family:georgia;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br class="m_4725424378319727901gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">
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