Beyond Belief
You’ll Find Clergy In All Sorts Of Places Around Kansas City
Keith Brown is a Protestant pastor who works in an elementary charter school, not a church. Jonathan Rudnick is a rabbi who doesn’t work in a synagogue but as a “community rabbi.” And Sulaiman Z. Salaam Jr. is an imam at a small mosque, but to earn a living, he operates a franchise restaurant at…
Read MoreMissouri Exoneree Using Ministry To Help Other Freed Prisoners
While he spent some 24 years in Missouri prisons, Darryl Burton — wrongfully convicted of capital murder — wrote letters to everyone he could think of. From presidents to governors to Hollywood stars. Eventually he wrote to Jesus but hid it from prison guards, he told me, believing that if they found it they’d think…
Read More‘Feminine Energy’ Infusing Faiths
Well before this #MeToo era of unmasked sexual misconduct — with its appalling revelation that an admitted sexual predator can be elected president — faith communities began to recognize that they have been complicit in the sin of misogyny. Today that recognition is turning into constructive action as people of faith across the nation, including…
Read MoreRighting A World Turned Upside Down
When Mindy Corporon turned 45 in August 2013, life was good. Really good. She was chief executive officer of Boyer Corporon Wealth Management, the business she co-founded in 2007. She was happily married with two great kids. Her parents lived nearby and were terrific grandparents. When she turned 50 a few weeks ago, almost nothing…
Read MoreCovenant Presbyterian Church Steps It Up In Kansas City’s Urban Core
One day last year Berta Washington wasn’t feeling well. So she went for a blood pressure check at Covenant Health and Wellness Center near 60th Street and Swope Parkway in Kansas City, Missouri. It was 86-over-69. “Me being a black female,” she told me, “that was heart attack time.” She quickly went to her doctor…
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