New series beginning Sunday, February 8!

PRISM

Sunday mornings, 9:00 AM, in the church library

or virtually on RingCentral: https://v.ringcentral.com/join/574555072

New series beginning Sunday, February 8

Do You Recognize Your Hometown Anymore?Author Beth Macy was born and raised in Ohio five decades ago and struggled with that question. She has a deep-seated love for the community of her youth despite being from a family that dealt with alcoholism and poverty. Yet after beating the odds and becoming an acclaimed journalist and writer in Virginia, she has witnessed a "fracturing" of her hometown. Her recent book, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America, examines this decades-long decline through multiple lenses, including changes in education, media, federal and state funding and policies, urban and rural competition, race and gender issues, political acrimony, the opioid epidemic, among others.

The PRISM class will be embarking on a 14-week discussion of Paper Girl which will hit close to home, because the issues of Beth Macy's hometown are the issues of practically every hometown. Joining the discussion will be a handful of individuals with lived and professional experience with the topics raised in Paper Girl. Based on the premise that understanding and insight can be fostered through respectful social discourse and candor, this series will be timely and important.

—John Weigand