Entertainment Mogul Raises Questions About “many paths” to God By Steve Rabey | Metro Voice [ Editor’s Note: In recent years, Metro Voice (along with Christian publications around the nation) published ...
Read More »Being Faithful in the Age of Facebook
What can you do to protect your relationships By Joanne Brokaw | More than 35 years ago, when he was a teenager, Mike Parker met Mark Henderson while on an 800-mile road ...
Read More »Developing an Entrepreneurial Spirit
Does Your Work Matter? By Linda Fields | To develop your entrepreneurial spirit, your first priority is to understand if, and how, it matters. For decades there has been a schism ...
Read More »Tech Engineer and Former Humanist Launches Platform to Investigate Creationism
Mark Rose, Patent holder and CEO of a high-tech firm near Corvallis, Oregon has launched Genesis Alive, a new organization that is developing resources and sharing new evidence for those who desire ...
Read More »Homeless Ministry Celebrates 10 Years Serving Needy
Hope Faith Ministries (HFM), an equipping day center that serves the needs of the homeless and less fortunate in Kansas City, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary in 2014. Founded by a small ...
Read More »Thrivent for Lutherans Under Fire for Planned Parenthood Donations
With the revelation that Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has provided funding to at least four Planned Parenthood affiliates as well as to the NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota Foundation, The St. Louis-based Lutheran Church—Missouri ...
Read More »Missouri Right to Life Lobby Day March 11
“Show Me Life” Pro-Life Action Day Mark Your Calendars for the Show Me Life Pro-life Action Day. Join Us on March 11, 2014 in the Missouri State Capitol to lobby for important ...
Read More »Conference To Inspire Your Workplace and Private Life
Moving Forward: Personal Vision for Significant Impact By Dwight Widaman | The Joseph Company will hold a conference on expanding the influence of your faith personally and in the marketplace. Moving ...
Read More »Apple launches gay “meet-up” app Rated for Kids 12 and Older
Apple has approved a gay social networking app that claims to be safe for children as young as 12, and aims to lead adults, teens and tweens to places that are “clean, ...
Read More »Jailed American Pastor Moved to New Iranian Prison
Saeed Abedini’s Health Deteriorates, U.S. Government Silent By Tiffany Owens | Naghmeh Abedini, the wife of imprisoned American pastor Saeed Abedini has cancelled plans to pray in front of the White House ...
Read More »Advocacy Group Says New DOD Policy on Religious Freedom is More Than Beards and Turbans
Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2014, (CHRISTIAN NEWS SERVICE) –The new (DOD) directive ordering accommodation of religious apparel and beards is an important development in protecting religious liberty. The directive incorporates provisions of ...
Read More »Millions go online to see “Mitt” on Netflix
Millions tuned in Friday night to watch, on their TV, tablet, or computer, the most anticipated documentary of 2014. Netflix premiered the Sundance documentary winner “Mitt”, which follows Republican nominee Mitt Romney ...
Read More »Where are Christians most at risk?
Opens Doors releases its annual list of persecutors  By J.C. Derrick | (WNS)–A U.S.-based group tracking persecution around the globe has named North Korea the worst country in the world for Christians. ...
Read More »Kansas City’s connection to the Nazi’s stolen loot
Legislation Would Award Congressional Gold Medals Kansas City, Mo.– As excitement builds for the release of the Sony film The Monuments Men, Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is recognizing six real-life ...
Read More »Tax changes to hit families, businesses hard
by Alan R. Jones, C.P.A. |Â Well, Christmas has come and gone, and now the thoughts of many families and small businesses turn to their “favorite” time of year, tax filing season. ...
Read More »Veterans Advocacy Group Calls for Hearings on VA Religious Freedom
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 2014 (Christian News Service) In a letter to Congressman Jeff Miller (R-FL), Chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, Military-Veterans Advocacy Inc, requested hearings into religious liberty violations within ...
Read More »â€œWolf of Wall Street†banned or censored around world
Has Hollywood gone too far? By Dwight Widaman | Countries around the world are editing, or down right banning the movie, The Wolf of Wall Street. In the U.S. the movie’s director, ...
Read More »Merit vs. Depravity for Oscar
by Phil Boatwright | KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The 2014 Academy Award nominees should be very grateful that only the technical and artistic merits of their work will be judged. Whatever positive ...
Read More »Congress Strengthens Religious Freedom for the Military
By Michael Cochrane | (WNS)–The Senate passed a defense bill with strong bipartisan support last week that includes important language to strengthen and protect the religious freedom of military members and chaplains. The 2014 ...
Read More »Let the Dream Live
By Patricia Smith | In his immortal speech “I Have a Dream”, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. paints a disturbing scene of a nation that had compromised its fidelity to the Declaration ...
Read More »The New Year and Charitable Giving Strategies
By Connie Hougland | When the calendar rolls over to a new year, one of the last things we may want to think about is charitable giving. We are just coming off ...
Read More »ESPN Hires Tim Tebow
By Mickey McLean (WNS)–Tim Tebow is back in football—but he’ll be behind a mic instead of under center. The former pro and college quarterback will be an analyst for the SEC Network, a ...
Read More »A Good Name: Witness Protection or Authenticity
We believe everyone reading this article should engage in some self-examination and answer this question: In a world of broken relationships and trust deficits, when people hear or see your name, does ...
Read More »Arise Women’s Conference Set to Inspire!
Women from Kansas City and beyond are encouraged to imagine a “new you” at the Arise 2014 Women’s Conference, Jan. 30 — Feb. 2. “The conference will offer inspiration and positive life-coaching ...
Read More »Making big ripples
They have many tag names; Invisible People, Hidden Homeless or the Forgotten Many. But one truth rings clear — they are all homeless men, women and children. In the Kansas City Metro ...
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