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Posts Tagged ‘Faith’

Alvin L. Brooks Center for Faith-Justice Takes Shape on Troost

By | August 27, 2023 | 0
Rockhurst University’s new Alvin L. Brooks Center for Faith-Justice will occupy this building at 5401 Troost Ave.

Rockhurst University is creating the Alvin L. Brooks Center for Faith-Justice in the name of an iconic local public servant and civil rights leader.

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Witnessing the State-Sanctioned Killing of Michael Tisius

By | July 30, 2023 | 0
Michael Tisius shows his tattoos during an interview at Potosi Correctional Center.

A pastor shares her story of watching Missouri execute Michael Tisius in June. Tisius was convicted of killing two jailers in 2000.

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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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