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A Derby resident said she filed her challenge to illustrate the consequences of censorship. The Bible is used as a textbook in Derby High School’s “Bible as Literature” course, a one-semester elective.
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About 3 in 10 U.S. adults identify as atheists, agnostics or having no particular religious affiliation. That number is nearly double the percentage of 2007 and is higher for millennials and Gen Z.
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Gov. Mike Parson’s comments on Don Kauerauf triggered civil rights complaints from at least one rabbi and several Muslims.
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With Kansas City hospitals caring for a record number of COVID patients, it's hard right now to address everyone's medical needs, let alone spiritual ones. Chaplains navigate health protocols and technological limitations, while still finding holiness "in places and circumstances most folks don't."
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"But what's very clear, when it comes to the Title VII mandates, is that the religious exemption is not a giant loophole you can just walk through."
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Before he opened Kansas City's Rime Buddhist Center, Lama Chuck Stanford owned a party planning business and performed as a magician named "Mr. Fabulous." He advocated peaceful harmony for all humanity.
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Hate crimes reported in Kansas and Missouri during 2020 increased significantly, but unreliable data collection and severe underreporting mean the real figures are likely even higher.
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In his new book, Sasha Issenberg argues that the LGBTQ community's focus was elsewhere when conservative Christians unleashed an attack against same-sex marriage.
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The founding pastor of Village Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Dr. Robert H. Meneilly, was "completely unafraid in the pulpit." He died on July 20 at age 96.
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The sisters at Heartland Farm mark just one of several religious communities in Kansas turning their attention to a modern crisis — climate change. Motivated by their religious beliefs, they make a faith-based case for environmentalism.
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As a Chaplain, he stayed behind to save wounded soldiers during the Korean War and the Vatican is looking into possible sainthood.
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For Eric Williams, virtual church has meant dressing down and being more real. It's also meant a new chapter in a decades-long ministry soothing pain in the here-and-now: relief from hunger.