Council members and friends make themselves available to groups and institutions for prayers and presentations. Here is a photo from a panel that Penn Valley Community College students hosted.
GKCIC SPEAKERS BUREAU
The Speakers Bureau is dedicated to the Greater Kansas City Interfaith
Council’s mission of growing a sustainable, pervasive culture of
knowledge, respect, appreciation and trust amongst people of all faiths
and religious traditions in the greater
INTERFAITH BOOK CLUB
(GKCIC South Book Club)
Christian
Contact: Pam Peck, at 913-268-8212 or
pcpeck99@hotmail.com
The Interfaith Book Club meets quarterly on the first Monday of
February, May, August, and November at 7pm at the Christian Science
Center, Red Bridge Shopping Center, 111th and Holmes Rd. Books are
largely non-fiction and cover world faith traditions. Meetings are open
to the public, and those attending do not have to read the book.
Discussions are often led by someone of the faith in focus.
VITAL CONVERSATIONS
(GKCIC North Book Club)
Mid-Continent Library
david@humanagenda.com,
www.humanagenda.com
Vital Conversations meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 1:00 –
2:30 p.m. All are welcome to
join the group in conversations about books, movies, culture, and
spirituality. Vital Conversations is interested in attracting people
from a variety of religious and spiritual perspectives in order to
celebrate the gifts of pluralistic viewpoints. Participants aim to build
relationships that honor our differences and celebrate our spiritual
paths.
SPIRITUAL LITERACY:
Finding Our
All
Contact Caroline Baughman at 816-729-7112 or
carolineamy@yahoo.com
The Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council and All Souls
Unitarian Universalist Church are partnering an innovative series of
classes held the 3rd Thursday of the month from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Spiritual Literacy classes are organized around a new “alphabet” of
spiritual qualities of the mind and the heart for every day living.
Mary and Frederick Brussat first created the alphabet several
years ago to capture key spiritual themes they believed are markers of
spiritual living. These themes, recognized by all of the world’s major
religions and faith traditions, help us to “read” the world and spell
out the spiritual in our lives each day. They help us to connect with
our sense of the Divine in ourselves, our neighbors, and the entire web
of Creation. The project has produced exquisite, moving videos,
exploring each of these 26 alphabetical qualities. At the monthly
meetings, participants view about 30 minutes of video illustrating a
particular spiritual theme, followed by group sharing of personal
experience and discussion of the application of the theme in our daily
lives. All are welcome to join the group at any time.
The first six classes of the series convened January through June of 2007 featuring the themes of Attention, Beauty, Compassion, Devotion, Enthusiasm, and Forgiveness. Caroline Baughman, Co-Convener for the Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council, facilitates this group. For more information on the Spiritual Literacy Project and to preview the videos: www.spiritualpractice.com.
Watch our calendar for our 2008 schedule.
Institute for
Spirituality in Health
Shawnee Mission Medical Center Contact: Steve Jeffers, 913-676-8104 or
Steven.Jeffers@shawneemission.org
Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council members serve as board members
for Shawnee Mission Medical Center’s Institute for Spirituality in
Health and also serve on special panels and task forces, such as the
Physician/Clergy dialogue groups, peer groups and ethics panels. GKCIC
members have also contributed faith sections for a comprehensive
interfaith resource for physicians and other healthcare professionals
cataloguing over fifty faiths (from American Indian Spirituality to
Zoroastrianism), their history, basic teachings and practices,
principles for clinical care, and principles for spiritual care through
the cycles of life. The book is slated to be published and available
internationally in 2008.
Honorary Chaplains
Initiated by former Mayor Pro-Tem Alvin Brooks in 2006, the “Pastor of
the Month” offers a prayer before the