Mark your calendars for the 2024 Holiday SOCIAL Thursday, November 7th, 5-8pm. Participating Vintage Shops: Finders and Seekers Emporium Little Boho Valley Marigold Pittsboro Studio 17, New Karma for Old Threads Reclamation Screaming For Vintage Shimmer (on IG) Last year was awesome and we are excited to kick off the 2024 holiday season with our Pittsboro community. FREE admission, festive treats & beverages, holiday gift ideas, a million twinkle lights and YOU. Tag all your vintage loving friends.

A smart, irreverent, and accessible guide to thinking more deeply about how religion permeates and shapes the world around us –and why you need to understand the work it's doing. Flyleaf will offer seating for up to 70 in-person guests, with priority access given to folks who purchase the book. Please indicate in the comments if you’d like 1-2 seats held for you at the event. Signing line at 5:30pm, talk begins at 6:00pm. Megan Goodwin, PhD, is co-director and co-founder of the Bardo Institute for Religion and Public Policy, and media and technology consultant for the Crossroads Project. She is the author of Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions. Her research focuses on American religions, race, sexuality, and politics. Goodwin co-hosts Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion Podcast with Dr. Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst. Her next project is tentatively entitled Cults Incorporated: The Business of Bad Religion. Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, PhD, is associate professor of religion and director of the Humanities Center at the University of Vermont. She was a 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Birmingham. Her research centers on Islam and Muslims in South Asia; imperialism; and intersections of religion, race, and belonging. She is author of Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and Jihad and co-editor of Words of Experience: Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst.