Interfaith
History of Persecution Binds Black, Jewish Communities
Kansas City icon Alvin Brooks knows more about the Civil Rights Movement here than almost anyone alive. And Brooks, former Kansas City mayor pro tempore, insists that progress for Blacks here would have been much more difficult without the consistent and persistent help of Jewish residents and leaders. “Jews in this community and across the…
Diversity Defines Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council Event
After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people of faith flocked to take part in this year’s Table of Faiths event hosted by The Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council.
Kansas City’s Muslim Community Prepares for Ramadan
Kansas City’s Muslim community is preparing for the holy month of Ramadan, which is marked by spiritual introspection, ritual prayers and fasting from dawn to dusk.
KC Families Share How Ramadan Changed This Year
In this special project, three households in the Kansas City area share, in their own voices, what they have been doing to observe the month-long practice of prayer, fasting and community while at home.
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…
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…
Breaking Down Negative Portrayals of Muslim Women
Flatland sat down with four women to talk about the Muslim, women leaders they look up to.
Hospital Chaplains Deliver Spiritual Care
Right from birth, this baby was sick, in trouble. “Her mother immediately asked for prayer and was very optimistic,” Kathie Knehans, then a chaplain at Children’s Mercy Hospital told me. So Knehans prayed with the family. And even when no family members were present, Knehans, now retired, visited the child and prayed. When the still-hospitalized…
(Faith)fully Serving Listeners
Virtually every Sunday morning for more than two decades, the Rev. Robert Lee Hill has left his Brookside home before sunrise to make his way to the studios of KCMO radio. The live talk show he co-hosts with Rabbi Michael Zedek and Bill Scholl of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas has also become…
Righting 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…