Below are the judges who are up for a retention vote according to the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan, a link to the bio of the judge up for retention, and the year ...
Read More »Musk suspends Iranian Ayatollah’s Hebrew account
Social media platform X on Sunday suspended an official account of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, one day after it was created. The suspension of the @Khamenei_Heb account came shortly after it ...
Read More »Kansas City fired up for opening of Museum of BBQ at Crown Center next spring
Barbecue helped put Kansas City on the map, and now the city is returning the favor (or flavor). The Museum of BBQ, the world’s first museum focused on all aspects of barbecue, will ...
Read More »Churches, synagogues receive $4 million in grants to support preservation projects
The National Fund for Sacred Spaces and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have awarded $4 million in grants to support critical preservation projects that will help maintain and extend the life of ...
Read More »Local nonprofit has provided safe water to 70 million people worldwide
Water.org, a nonprofit organization based in Kansas City, has reached a new milestone, changing 70 million lives with access to safe water or sanitation. This milestone highlights the efficacy of Water.org’s market-driven ...
Read More »Christian organizations team up to provide financial resources for homeschool families
Homeschool families have a new resource available to practice and teach biblical financial stewardship. AdelFi Credit Union and Teach Them Diligently are partnering to offer a wide range of banking services and ...
Read More »“Fierce urgency of now”: Vitae Foundation speakers encourage, challenge prolife Christians to get involved
Missourians will soon go to the polls and determine if the state will remain steadfastly prolife or enact one of the most radical pro-abortion constitutional amendments in the nation. “Missouri has been ...
Read More »Majority of Christian men struggle with porn, research finds
Three-fourths of Christian men and 40 percent of women view porn on some level, according to the Beyond the Porn Phenomenon report from Barna and Pure Desire Ministries. Even though practicing Christians ...
Read More »Ark of the Covenant recreated as talk of rebuilding Temple grows
A replica of the Ark of the Covenant, painstakingly constructed, its creators say, to the Torah specifications of the sacred vessel that was the First Temple’s central fixture, was displayed in Jerusalem ...
Read More »Influential pro-life film “The 1916 Project” streaming for free on X through November 13
The critical vote on Amendment 3 in Missouri is less than two weeks away. If passed, the amendment would enshrine in the state constitution abortion up to birth. Christians who want to ...
Read More »Meet the candidates, eat free BBQ Thursday night
A free BBQ will be held in conjunction with an election issues update on Thursday evening, Oct. 24 in Warrensburg. Sponsored by the Johnson County Republican Committee, the event begins at 5:30 ...
Read More »Championship high school coach places God first, then family and football
The successful high school football coach featured in a new Fox Nation documentary encourages his players to prioritize faith and family over football. “The message that we’re telling these young people every ...
Read More »Police recover $36,000 in goods stolen from local church
The Kansas City, Kan., Police Department announced this week that it has returned $36,000 in goods that were stolen from Forest Grove Baptist Church. The items taken from the church in a ...
Read More »Election workers are vital to election integrity
Soon, ‘VOTE HERE’ signs will line the roadway outside many church or school buildings. The election workers inside are an essential part of every election. They are present to provide faster service ...
Read More »Silver Dollar City announces $500 million in new developments over next decade
Silver Dollar City has announced plans to invest $500 million over the next decade on new family adventures, including the development of 1,200 acres adjacent to the Ozark Mountain theme park. The ...
Read More »Love Zambia Festival reaches hundreds of thousands with gospel message
The Luis Palau Association partnered with nearly 5,000 churches across many denominations to sponsor the recent Love Zambia Festival. This nationwide evangelistic campaign trained tens of thousands of Christians and reached hundreds ...
Read More »Full slate of Christmas movies now showing on Great American Media
One of the first signs of the holiday season is when networks begin airing Christmas movies. Great American Media, which is committed to productions about faith and family, already has started broadcasting ...
Read More »Pastor offers words of hope for Christians going through both literal and figurative storms
Many individual Christians and churches are among the hundreds of thousands of Americans affected by recent devastating storms, including hurricanes. Pastor Jesse Bradley of Auburn, Wash., offered them a message of hope. ...
Read More »32 million churchgoing Christians unlikely to vote in November, survey finds
More than 100 million people of faith, including 32 million churchgoing Christians, are unlikely to vote in the November election, according to new research from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian ...
Read More »Practicing Christians score higher on Human Flourishing Index, research finds
Practicing Christians flourish more than people who identify as non-religious, the State of the Bible USA 2024 report from the American Bible Society found. The Human Flourishing Index, created by Harvard University, ...
Read More »Actor Russell Brand responds to critics after performing baptism in his underwear
After his dramatic conversion, actor Russell Brand is learning that other Christians can be critical at times. Last month, he posted a photo on social media of him and a friend performing ...
Read More »Former NFL player Benjamin Watson will be keynote speaker at Vitae Foundation dinner
Former professional football player Benjamin Watson will be the keynote speaker at the Vitae Foundation’s annual Kansas City pro-life dinner. Missourians soon will be voting on Proposition 3, which would enshrine the ...
Read More »Member of Kansas City First Nazarene Church is victim of stabbing by homeless man before Sunday service
Jarod Hill is charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action after stabbing a member of Kansas City First Church of the Nazarene last Sunday morning. The homeless man had been camping ...
Read More »Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief bringing help, hope to hurricane victims
Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief members have been helping with hurricane recovery near Augusta, Ga., since late September. “I would describe it as one big debris field,” Toby Tucker, who led the first ...
Read More »Union Pacific Big Boy Steam Engine to make area stop
The famous Big Boy Steam Engine will be making a Topeka stop as part of its Heartland of America tour. The steam engine will stop in Topeka from 12:15-12:45 p.m. Oct. 17 ...
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