And that now won’t likely change until after the new year kicks in.
The council is weighing the sensitive topic of whether the Market House, where enslaved people were sold before the Civil War, should be torn down.
Some members of the community say it should not be demolished, as it is a historical building with architectural significance.
Others say it needs to be demolished to get rid of a painful period of history.
The City Council has said it wants to know what residents want, but its members have differences of opinion about how to get there.
The council was hoping to get more answers when it had scheduled a discussion at Monday night’s council meeting about a proposal from a Kansas firm to conduct a community survey.
Authentic religion does not call for churches reopening in a pandemic
Richard A.S. Hall
Churches, especially the fundamentalist and evangelical ones, are agitating for their physical reopening for services during the COVID-19 pandemic. A few have opened in defiance of state-mandated lockdown orders, with some of their members already suffering the consequences.
I believe this precipitous reopening results from their clergy and congregations having an inadequate understanding of religion. They identify religion with churches and church attendance. This is religiosity, not genuine religion.
But what is “religion”? It is notoriously difficult to define; any definition is typically either too narrow or too broad. The American philosopher and psychologist, William James, took a stab at a definition in his classic study of religion, “The Varieties of Religious Experience.” He admitted that his definition was only a provisional one to get his discussion started, but I think it i