<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;" data-setdir="false"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.32px;">O</span><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">ur book for April (to properly celebrate 'Easter') is </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><i>Heretic: <span>Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God – An Eye-Opening Account of Early Christian Divergence</span></i> by classicist Catherine Nixey (author of <i>The Darkening Age</i>, which we read in 2022). </span><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">The discussion will take place on Saturday, April 18 at 2:30 pm at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, located at 303 Washington Ave., New Haven.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><div style="text-align: center;" dir="" data-setdir="true"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:19dfd53c-9a2b-6a70-ceb2-1776ca1402fa@yahoo.com" class="yahoo-inline-image" draggable="false" style="letter-spacing: -0.32px; max-width: 400px; width: 50%;" data-id="<19dfd53c-9a2b-6a70-ceb2-1776ca1402fa@yahoo.com>"></div><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">From Amazon:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><div dir="ltr" style="letter-spacing: -0.32px; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> <div><div>Contrary to the teachings of the church today, in the first several centuries of Christianity’s existence, there was no consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered. Instead, there were many different Christs. One had a twin brother and traveled to India; another consorted with dragons. One particularly terrifying Christ scorned his parents and killed those who opposed him.</div><div><br></div><div><i>Heretic</i> unearths the different versions of Christ who existed in the minds of early Christians, and the process of evolution – and elimination – by which Jesus became the singular figure we know today.</div><div><br></div><div>“<i>Heretic</i> has the mother lode of tales too hot for Christendom. Nixey has carefully wrung out a number of apocryphal texts for scandal.” – <i>Harper's Magazine</i></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Hope to see you on the 18th,</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="letter-spacing: -0.32px; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;"><div dir="ltr">Kevin (& Paula)</div></span></div></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>