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.
NOTE: The All Souls Forum is moving to Tuesday at 7 PM beginning January 23, 2024. Please join us at the new time!
Upcoming Episodes
April 2, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
How China derailed its peaceful rise to power
For decades, China's rise to power came with the reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Tragically, this direction has changed under the leadership of Xi Jinping, the current head of state of the People's Republic of China (PRC), according to the 2022 book on Overreach: How China Derailed its Peaceful Rise. The author of this book, Susan L. Shirk, discusses these concerns.
Read MoreMarch 26, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Deterrence, its failures, and relations between the US and China
Richard Ned Lebow speaks on deterrence, its failures, and relations between the US and China.
ListenMarch 19, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Critical Need for Connecting Access to Health and Education
The Executive Director of HealthEd Connect will share about the organization’s partnership with volunteer community health advocates to connect vulnerable populations with essential health and education.
ListenMarch 12, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
How you can more effectively advance multi-racial democracy
Dr. Maria Stephan, co-lead of the Horizons Project, discusses her work to strengthen multi-racial democracy in the US and globally. The Horizons Project is working to help disparate groups find common ground and build a movement of movements to advance racial justice and democracy at a time of rising political violence and authoritarianism.
ListenMarch 5, 2024 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.
ListenFebruary 27, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Wikipedia: The most democratic force on earth
Spencer Graves claims that Wikipedia is the most democratic force on earth. Almost anyone can change almost anything on Wikipedia. What stays tends to be written from a neutral point of view citing credible sources.
ListenFebruary 20, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Conversations that Count: Finding Power and Peace in Charting Your End-of-life Journey
Angela Schultz, MSW discusses end-of-life options and documenting your wishes, as well as having conversations with your loved ones and your healthcare provider.
ListenFebruary 13, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Intersection of Race and Disability
Rev. Letiah Fraser, disability rights advocate and hospital chaplain, shares her passion around the intersections of faith, race and disability.
ListenFebruary 6, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Living with Alzheimers
Kelly Loeb of the KU Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, will share resources for people living with Alzheimer’s Disease and the loved ones who care for them.
ListenJanuary 30, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Promoting Public Safety Through Collaboration and Innovation
Kansas City Director of Public Safety Melesa Johnson explains collaborative city efforts to reduce violent crime.
ListenJanuary 23, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Skills devoted to nuclear weapons are needed to combat climate change
Timmon Wallis, Director of NuclearBan.US, explains how the "Skills devoted to nuclear weapons are needed to combat climate change." His 2023 book on Warheads to Windmills documents how the life cycle cost of wind and solar energy per megawatt hour is less than for fossil fuels and nuclear. Timmon argues that we need the jobs currently devoted to making nuclear weapons instead to combat global warming. Under current policies we are paying those people to threaten the extinction of civilization.
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