Commentary

Each year the annual AIDS Walk, including this one in 2022, raises funds for agencies supported by the AIDS Service Foundation.

Honoring Those Taken by AIDS, and Those Who Stepped Forward to Help

A recent Kansas City PBS documentary, “AIDS in KC,” recalls how Kansas Citians handled the beginning of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

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"He Gets Us" campaign messaging at a public venue.

Jesus ‘Gets Us,’ We’re Told, As We Struggle to Get Him

An Overland Park group is backing the nationwide “He Gets Us” campaign to promote Jesus.

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Independence Boulevard Christian Church, which was constructed at its current site in 1905.

Small Congregations Rethink the Role of Big Historic Churches

Churches are seeking out new solutions to maintain historic older buildings.

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These books on religion, which fall in the 200s of the Dewey Decimal System, are on the shelves of the Kansas City Public Library’s central branch downtown.

KC Libraries Offer a Variety of Books on Spirituality

Librarians explain how and why libraries offer patrons books and other material about the eternal questions that religions raise and try to answer.

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This “land acknowledgment” sign at Second Presbyterian Church in Kansas City names the Indigenous tribes that consider the land on which the church sits as ancestral territory.

A Belated Lesson in the History of Indigenous People

People of faith are belatedly coming to grips with their troubled history with Indigenous People.

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