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The All Souls Unitarian Universalist Forum, Kansas City's longest ongoing conversation, has offered a platform for the discussion of significant issues since 1943.
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Bill came to KKFI via Shots In The Night. After writing, recording, and producing that show for several years, he was finally convinced to step up and undertake production of the All Souls Forum, too.
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The All Souls Unitarian Universalist Forum, Kansas City’s longest ongoing conversation, has offered a platform for the discussion of significant issues since 1943. Guest speakers typically focus on issues of political, social justice, moral, educational and artistic significance. Each presentation is followed by questions and discussion.
Upcoming Episodes
April 6, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Stupidity of War and the Exaggeration of Threat
John Mueller, prolific author, Professor Emeritus of international relations at Ohio State University and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses his 2021 book, "The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency". He assess the historic decline of international war and the tendency nonetheless to exaggerate national security threats.
Read MoreMarch 30, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Updating Kansas City’s Local Food and Farming Scene
Kyra Gross and Alicia Ellingsworth will describe the opportunities to obtain locally and regionally produced food and talk about efforts to grow a community food system.
ListenMarch 23, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
For the Plaintiffs: The Legal Fight Against Missouri’s Abortion Ban
Attorney Denise Lieberman will talk about the state of the lawsuit challenging Missouri’s abortion ban.
ListenMarch 16, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Good and the Bad of Entertainment Media and LGBTQIA+ People
Richard Thompson will be exploring the entertainment media's role in the acceptance and rejection of LGBTQIA+ people.
Read MoreMarch 2, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
A Tale of Two Police Departments and 2-23-23
Lora McDonald, the Executive Director of MORE2, discusses problems with law enforcement in the Kansas City Metro Area and about MORE2's primary annual public meeting held on February 23, 2023.
ListenFebruary 23, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Poetry and Social Justice with Ron Faust and Joseph Davis
Kansas City poets Ron Faust and Joseph Davis will discuss their writings and how they use poetry to communicate visions of social justice.
ListenFebruary 16, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Our Environmental Health and the Arkansas River
University of Kansas Professor Hannes Zacharias and Heartland Conservation Alliance Executive Director Logan Heley explore the environmental health of our world as experienced by our waterways and the Arkansas River.
Read MoreFebruary 9, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Expertise and national security
Research has documented that expert intuition is acquired by learning from frequent, rapid, high quality feedback. Experts without that learning earn respect from their mastery of a particular body of knowledge. People without expert intuition can easily be beaten by simple rules of thumb developed by intelligent lay people. Military and political leaders have expert intuition but not about how to secure broadly shared peace and prosperity for the long term. In our nuclear age, this complete absence of expert intuition on national security threatens the extinction of civilization.
ListenFebruary 2, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Role of Radical Black Media and the Future of Information
Ryan Sorrell, the founder of The Kansas City Defender, talks about the role of Black media and his fast-growing news outlet.
ListenJanuary 26, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Road to Hope for Jackson County Children
Jackson County Children’s Services Fund board members Ann Mesle and Judy Morgan will talk about how the fund and its partners combine care, connections and creativity to provide hope against child poverty, abuse and neglect by promoting children’s mental health and social-emotional well being.
ListenJanuary 19, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Closing the Psychological Distance Through Reconciliation
Community Engagement Coordinator Mike Marcus of Reconciliation Services and Thelma's Kitchen will discuss how we can foster community healing.
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