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From modest attendance of 120 at its first service held in 1990 in the chapel of a local funeral home – the Rev. Adam Hamilton has...

Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman launched the year’s most anticipated literary magazine, the biannual Freeman’s, in S...

Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache...

At 83, SuEllen Fried’s social conscience has scarcely ebbed. The Prairie Village native – one of former President George H.W. Bush...

Kansas City novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with author Elizabeth Ga...

Bill Zahner made a tough call shortly after taking charge of the family business in the late 1970s, shifting the focus of the A. Z...

Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most...

In Gryphon, his career-spanning collection of short stories, author Charles Baxter offers yarns in which our acutely observe...

Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...

Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as 1973’s Roe v. Wade, which affirmed a woman’...