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  • Lax financial oversight riles some church followers

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    Kansas City Star: Lax financial oversight riles some church followers The Kansas City Star did a lengthy article yesterday about Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Jerry Johnston here in the Kansas City area. Johnston sees himself as the next Jerry Falwell. Here are some excerpts. As hundreds of new worshipers flock into his First Family Church,…

  • The Truth About Torture … Past and Present

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    Village Presbyterian Church in Prarie Village, KS, will host "The Truth About Torture … Past and Present: A Conversation with Gerald Gray" as part of their Village University program. Here is how they describe the program. What is “soft” torture? What are the consequences for countries/people that torture? How should we define torture? Is torture…

  • First Step gets entrepreneurs started on the road to success

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    Kansas City Star: First Step gets entrepreneurs started on the road to success. Last week the Star did a piece on the First Step program. I volunteered as a coach and a teacher in the program's early years in the 1990s. I still return twice a year to do a segment on competitive analysis and…

  • KC Emergent Cohort Conversation

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    For those of you in the Kansas City area, the Kansas City Emergent Cohort is getting together tonight at the Wesport Flea Market in Westport (Home of the best-tasting and most artery-clogging hamburgers in the metro.) I have been invited to offer some reflections about economics in the Emerging conversation. I have given my little…

  • Kansas City Paints Over Pink Jail Cells

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    From Red Orbit: Kansas City Paints Over Pink Jail Cells KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The experiment to see if the color pink calms jail inmates has been declared a failure in Kansas City. Scientific research has suggested that the pink jails make inmates less aggressive, and jails across the country have experimented with the idea.…

  • Bob Needs a Light

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    Yesterday, Melissa and I headed over to Lawrence, KS, for a little used bookstore browsing and fall foliage viewing. As we were returning to Kansas City, I saw one of my favorite Kansas City, MO, landmarks: Bob the Hereford Bull. I decided I needed to let you know about my friend Bob. Here is a…

  • Obama Drops by the Neighborhood

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    Barack Obama is in my neighborhood today campaigning for the Democrat candidate for the US Senate from Missouri, Claire McCaskill. She used to live about three blocks from where I live until she became the state auditor and moved to Jefferson City. I had the opportunity to speak with her a couple of times when…

  • Emerging model: A visit to Jacob’s Well

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    From Christian Century: Emerging model: A visit to Jacob's Well. In 1998, a close friend told me that a small core group wanted to start a church in the neighborhood where I lived and worshiped. Melissa and I were attending a Presbyterian Church (USA) congregation (Roanoke Presbyterian Church) at the time and working to create…

  • Kansas City Emergent Cohort

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    Kansas City's fledgling Emergent Cohort is gearing up again. Here is the info on the next event from the new KC Emergent Cohort blog. We will be meeting on Thursday, September 21.Time: 9:00pm till wheneverWhere: Keystone Coffeehouse located in the Broadway Methodist Church at 74th and Wornall. You can enter at the door under the…

  • Religious Peculiarity in Kansas City

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    One of the things I like about living in Kansas City is some of our religious quirkiness. I took these pictures while out and around recently to show what I mean. This prayer booth is just outside the front door at Rivercity Community Church and right on the street, not far from where I live.…