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Boards on which I serve

I serve on several boards that relate in some way to matters of faith. Here's a rundown of them, just for your information:

KC-hospice-house-- Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care. This is the jewell of non-profit hospices in the Kansas City area. Our great staff offers both in-home care as well as a 32-bed hospice house. The photo here is of the front entrance of the Hospice House at 12000 Wornall Road in Kansas City, Mo.

-- Hermitage Spiritual Retreat Center, Pittsburg, Mo. This is a small, ecumenical retreat facility that offers Christian hospitality to people who need to find some alone time, some down time, some reflection time. Our on-site resident manager and spiritual director is W. Paul Jones, a Catholic priest and Trappist monk. As of Aug. 5, 2017, I'm an emeritus board member.

-- The Kansas City Interfaith Youth Alliance. This inter-religious organization for high school students and other young adults seeks to educate members about faith and provide opportunities to learn about the faith of others and to participate in interfaith service projects.

-- I serve on the Council of Advocates of the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education.

* The MAX (for Mutualaid eXchange) Insurance Company. This company, rooted in the Anabaptist tradition, provides not just property and casualty insurance for individuals and churches but it also tithes its profits (and commits 1 percent of its premiums) to be able to provide mutual aid ministry to people in need. Its home offices are in Overland Park, Kan., a Kansas City suburb, with a subsidiary in Canada. As a reciprocal insurance company, it provides homeowners, auto and other insurance to its members, who may join simply by signing an application stating one's agreement with the core moral values of the company. Prior to early 2010, people buying insurance had to be members of Anabaptist churches, such as Mennonite or Church of the Brethren. Now membership is open to a much wider group. I was on the MAX board for several years but left it in May 2014.

* In addition, I'm an elder at Second Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, Mo., a trustee for the burial site in Mount Washington Cemetery of William Rockhill Nelson, co-founder of The Kansas City Star, and a past president and former board member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.

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  • Who is Bill?
    I'm the former Faith columnist for The Kansas City Star. For a more detailed bio, look under the "Check this out" headline below. My Twitter handle is @BillTammeus. While you're here, I invite you to explore the archives, too.

My books

  • Love, Loss and Endurance: A 9/11 Story of Resilience and Hope in an Age of Anxieity
  • The Value of Doubt: Why Unanswered Questions, Not Unquestioned Answers, Build Faith
  • Jesus, Pope Francis and a Protestant Walk Into a Bar: Lessons for the Christian Church
  • Woodstock: A Story of Middle Americans
  • They Were Just People: Stories of Rescue in Poland During the Holocaust
  • My Visitation Parish book
  • A Gift of Meaning

Recent Posts

  • Preaching must be political -- just not partisan
  • Is religion slowly disappearing in the U.S.?
  • Can the Abrahamic faiths lead to Middle East peace?
  • The end of QAnon extremism isn't yet in sight
  • Again the ancient question: Who do you say Jesus is?
  • As the pandemic recedes, will faith communities adjust?
  • Are religion and secularism in a U.S. battle to the death?
  • Uncovering a German town's hidden Nazi story
  • How wealth is dividing American Catholicism
  • How do we explain 'moral' atheists?

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  • Anti-Judaism in Christian History
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  • The Bible and homosexuality
  • The Holocaust Book Project
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