From KUT News:
Standing at a pulpit on a Sunday morning in March, the Rev. Daryl Horton of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in East Austin prayed for a swift approval of building permits. An ask that, as anyone familiar with municipal bureaucracy knows, requires nothing short of a God-given miracle.
“Y’all keep praying for the city as those permits keep going through,” Horton told the hundred-some worshippers seated in pews at his feet. “We’re gonna get it taken care of so we can continue to build what God has called us to build.”…