The Big Deal You Don’t Know About City Hall

"One property owner we spoke to acknowledged that Tolbert and members of Council have toured their property. That owner has not heard back to learn if any site was cut from an initial list of about 15, including Red Bird Mall, a large warehouse in The Cedars, Cityplace, The Epic, Fair Park, Comerica Tower, Bryan Tower, Plaza of the Americas, and others."

https://www.dmagazine.com/micropost/aint-no-meeting-like-a-city-hall-meeting-because-a-city-hall-meeting-dont-stop/

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@Quasit

C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast in a Church of Ireland family and was baptized in that church.

As part of his commitment to Christianity in the early thirties, he reconnected to the Anglican Communion by taking up worship within the Church of England.

He never converted to Roman Catholicism. This disappointed Tolkien. Whether Lewis turning towards Canterbury rather than Rome was a decision made after intellectual reflection or was more a cultural consequence of his having grown up as a Protestant in Ireland I do not know. Lewis was never a vocal anti-RC sectarian, but his background might well have made "swimming the Tiber" unthinkable.

He thought of himself as Irish, not English; that ought to be borne in mind when describing him as British.

I am not a Christian and have always found his Christian apologetic writing not only unconvincing but tiresome to read.

On the other hand, I still find myself fascinated by his Narnia fiction, in spite of its suffusion by Christianity and cultural conservatism. A book that I helped me make sense of my fascination and would recommend to other nonreligious, nonconservative "friends of Narnia" is Laura Miller's "The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia".

I would agree that the convert's zeal of Evelyn Waugh was truly awful!

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@mariapopova
There is much to dislike about C.S. Lewis, especially the C.S.Lewis who is venerated in the USA by Christian conservatives. I find his Christian apologetics not so much interesting as irritating.

Yet when he is, as in the passage you quoted, putting forth ideas that have their roots in Platonic thought, I find him altogether more engaging. I also think he was a wonderful storyteller, in spite of passages in the Narnia books that now make us wince.

I found Laura Miller -- The Magician's Book of great value in helping me think about Lewis:

https://lauramiller.typepad.com/

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