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This podcast tracks the audio archives for the “All Souls Forum” radio show. The All Souls Unitarian Universalist Forum, Kansas City’s longest ongoing conversation, has offered a platform for the discussion of significant issues since 1943.

Peace Crane Presentation at the Truman Library

Join the celebration of a gift of an original Sadako peace crane to the library. Guest speakers: Sadako’s brother, Masahiro Sasaki, and President Truman’s grandson Clifton Truman Daniels. You may recall that the young girl, Sadako, survived the US bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 but, years later, died from radiation...

12/02/2015

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“The Missouri Death Penalty” with Cynthia Short, J.D.

Cynthia Short, with Investigating Innocence, has spent years as a public defender with much effort devoted to death penalty cases. She will discuss the state of the death penalty in Missouri.

11/23/2015

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“Beyond Our Borders: Four Kansas City Partitions” with Ron Jones

Ron Jones is KCUR Director of Community Engagement. He will discuss how the partitions of Troost, State Line, the Wyandotte-Johnson County line and the Missouri River affect the KC experience.

11/16/2015

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“Crunch Time in Kansas Politics” with Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson is a lobbyist for the Kansas Rural Center and reports to the Kansas League of Women Voters. He will discuss state budget issues and problems of Agriculture, water and the environment

11/09/2015

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“Reforming the Criminal Justice System” with Jolie Justus

Newly elected to the KC City Council, former Missouri State Senator Jolie Justus, will discuss issues of criminal justice reforms for our nation which jails citizens at the highest rate in the world.

11/09/2015

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“Kansas City: Metropolis or Zoopolis” with Julie Urbanik, PhD

Since its fur trading and livestock days, animals have been central to KC’s identity and landscape. Formerly a professor of geosciences at UMKC, Dr. Urbanik will examine the past and present connections between KC’s human and non-human inhabitants.

10/26/2015

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“Changing American Families” with Deborah B. Smith

As American society changes, so do American families. So why does the image of the white picket fence with breadwinner father and homemaker mother persist? Prof. Smith, Dir. UMKC’s Family Studies, will provide a bit of history of the American family and offer TWO new definitions of “family” to ground...

10/26/2015

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Forum: “Homelessness Task Force” with Evelyn Craig

Evie Craig is president and CEO for reStart, an organization with which All Souls has been involved for over twenty years. Ms. Craig, having received contracts from the Veterans’ Administration & numerous awards, will discuss the extensive and growing program for impacting homelessness in Kansas City.

10/12/2015

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