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Columnist Bill Tammeus writes about matters of religion and ethics, while readers respond and start their own discussions.
At the NCR Café, find free conversation and virtual companionship in a community in dialogue with today's top issues and concerns.
KC Companies of Conscience
A 'small' green revolt: buying local
The Sustainable Sanctuary Coalition shares a sermon about what Wendell Berry called a "revolt of small local producers and local consumers against the global industrialism of the corporation." > Read
Border deaths and arrests in Kansas City
A recorded presentation by "No More Deaths"
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On loss and blessings of a child unborn
Even house spiders became almost sacred to me. Because she might be pregnant, I couldn't throw the spider outside. All life took on a new perspective. Now I see the grace in death. > Read
A reflection on "Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?"
"the real issue is not where bin Laden might be but why and how a bin Laden ever existed in the first place." > Read
Longtime activist Henry Stoever shares this letter to the Kansas City Star about deaths of migrants on the border and why he chose to be arrested for their cause. > Read