Steve Mencher is the creator of “Beyond Belief,” a KCPT project.
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Can Faith Communities Heal Racial Inequality? In Kansas City, a Resounding Yes
07-11-2016
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When I was a kid, my culturally Jewish parents distributed a mimeographed sheet in our Bronx, N.Y., neighborhood explaining why it was OK to be an atheist.
They would send me outside on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, in torn jeans and a dirty shirt to play ball on our stoop while our neighbors dressed up and went to synagogue.