Faith
Finding Sisterhood in a Season of Giving
Kansas City area Jews and Muslims are joining together to perform holiday season acts of goodwill to mark Sadaqah-Tzedakah Day.
Kansas City Religious Leaders Grapple With The Notion of Ghosts
Ghost stories do more than just frighten us. They also inspire more serious discussions of the soul and afterlife.
Kansas City-Area Muslims and Jews Pursue Partnerships
A national effort to create partnerships between Muslims and Jews has spread to Kansas City. It’s producing not just interfaith friends but a commitment to combat hatred that threatens both groups.
Keeping The Faith in Kansas City
In the best of all worlds, religion fosters a common cause for self improvement and good works. Yet, as we have seen, harmony disintegrates when some followers espouse views that seem to contradict the basic tenets of their faith. Such divides led to this question posed to curiousKC: “How do the religiously devout reconcile their…
Sikh Temple Will Highlight U.S Religious Pluralism At Lenexa Corner
On the southwest corner of 101st Street and Lone Elm Road in southwest Lenexa, not far from the Falcon Ridge Golf Course, is a large church. It’s a congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, usually called the Mormons. The path from the creation of Mormonism in the early 1800s to today…
Holding a Balance of Unity Within Diversity
Jo Shryrock likes living in Tonganoxie, Kansas. It’s a small town, with a population of little more than 5,000. The people are friendly, and it’s a great place to raise children. But she wishes there were more diversity, particularly religious diversity, in her town. She looks at Kansas City, Missouri, and sees how the varied…
What’s The Story Behind That Shiny Spire In Independence, Missouri?
Like many Metropolitan-area residents, Valorie Wells Fenton has driven by the silver spire that corkscrews skyward in Independence, Missouri. She heard it’s the place Mormons expect Jesus to return and wondered if the site may be to Mormons like the Vatican is to Catholics. After talking with family and friends about the church, she realized…
Breaking Down Negative Portrayals of Muslim Women
Flatland sat down with four women to talk about the Muslim, women leaders they look up to.
Angry Metro Clergy Await Homosexuality Decision from United Methodist Church
Right after a governing body of the United Methodist Church in February approved keeping the denomination’s ban on gay clergy and on any clergy officiating at same-sex weddings, the Rev. Tex Sample was indignant and defiant. He told worshippers at Trinity United Methodist Church in Midtown Kansas City that their historically gay-friendly congregation would follow…
The Innocent Victims of Hatred’s Blindness
A surviving spouse looks back at a neo-Nazi shooting in Johnson County that killed his wife in 2014.