Tues, Sept 28 @ 7:30 PM (MT) via Zoom

Please join us to discuss Protozoa by Ella Martinsen Gorham.  

Find it on page 124 of The Best American Short Stories – 2019  

Read it on line at: https://www.nereview.com/protozoa/ 

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Tues, Sept 14 @ 7:30 PM (MT) via Zoom

Please join us to discuss The Case of Death and Honey by Neil Gaiman.

Find it on page 115 of Trigger Warning: Short Fictions & Disturbances – Neil Gaiman

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Tues, Aug 31 @ 7:30 PM (MT) via Zoom

Join us to discuss The Jewish State (excerpts) by Herzl.

Find it on page 215 of Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Vision – Great Books Foundation

Watch a short video about Herzl at https://unpacked.education/video/herzl-the-zionist-dream-of-a-jewish-state/

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Tues, Aug 17 @ 7:30 PM (MT) via Zoom

 Join us to discuss Bronze By Jeffrey Eugenides.

Find it on page 101 in The Best American Short Stories – 2019 

Read it or listen to the author read it at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/05/bronze.

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Tues Aus 3 @ 7:30 PM (MT) via Zoom

 Please join us to discuss selections from The City of God by St. Augustine.  
Find it on page 179 of Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Vision – Great Books Foundation.

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The selection from the early Christian philosopher Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430), taken from Books XIV and XIX of his magisterial work The City of God (413–427), investigates a fundamental problem that arises when a utopian vision is informed by teachings believed to carry divine authority. Since such a vision is generally intended to take hold and lead to the establishment of a political community in the world, the challenge for such proposals is to account for how the religious foundations of such a community can coexist with the harsh realities of governance and remain solid and stable. For Augustine, this was not merely a theoretical problem, but a living reality in the waning days of the Roman Empire as the Christian church struggled to maintain its central place in the political life of an increasingly fragmented world. Augustine asks us to consider the complex and often ambivalent relationship between what he terms the divine City of God and the secular City of Man and to think about what it means to simultaneously be a citizen of both.

Zoom, Tues, July 20 @ 7:30 PM (MT)

Join us to discuss A Calendar of Tales.

Find it on page  86 of Trigger Warning: Short Fictions & Disturbances – Neil Gaiman

Or read it via: http://margreetdeheer.com/eng/calendar.html

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Zoom: Tues, July 6 @ 7:30 OM (MT)

Join us to discuss Hellion by Julia Elliott.  Find it on page 83 of The Best American Short Stories - 2019

Zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89726732176?pwd=d2lsMHhTRU9VcjZNVHBzZXlRSkRRQT09#success

Meeting ID: 897 2673 2176
Password: books