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Lone Jack High School Teacher Battles Antisemitism

By | June 25, 2023 | 0
Flowers in the foreground of the Lone Jack Civil War Museum.

Lone Jack High School teacher Angela Gottesburen has been recognized as Holocaust Educator of the Year by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education.

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Gay Priest Shepherds Nontraditional ‘Catholic’ Church

By | May 28, 2023 | 2
Fr. Taylor W. Tracy, pastor of Christ the King Independent Catholic Church of Kansas City.

Fr. Taylor W. Tracy is married. To a man. And he is leading a nontraditional “Catholic” church on Kansas City’s West Side that is exceptionally ecumenical.

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Center for Living Water Seeks New Path for Spiritualty

By | April 30, 2023 | 0
Daniel Harmon and his sister, Katie Harmon-McLaughlin, are the Community of Christ pastors now leading the Center for Living Water. The words behind them inspired the center’s name are from John 14:4 in the New Testament.

The Center for Living Water in Independence hopes to attract people who have become inactive in church life or who have never found a spiritual home.

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New William Jewell Center Embraces Spiritual Exploration

By | March 26, 2023 | 1
Exterior view of the John Gano Memorial Chapel at William Jewell College.

Historically Baptist William Jewell College has become more ecumenical and theologically open, allowing for the creation of The Center for Faith and Culture.

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Church of the Resurrection Confronts Uncertain Future

By | February 26, 2023 | 2
The historic stone Central United Methodist Church at 52nd and Oak in Kansas City became the sixth COR campus late in 2022.

The ground seems to be shifting under the strikingly successful United Methodist Church of the Resurrection (COR), which now has six campuses in the Kansas City area.

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