Heartland Farms near Great Bend, Kansas is operated by the Dominican Sisters of Peace.
The sisters at Heartland Farms mark just one of several religious communities in Kansas turning their attention to a modern crisis climate change. Motivated by their religious beliefs, they make a faith-based case for environmentalism.
GREAT BEND, Kansas The Dominican Sisters of Peace have been farming with their faith in mind for more than three decades.
In the middle of a state where large-scale commodity and livestock farming has transformed the landscape, the order of nuns aim for a lighter touch on the land.
“If you don’t have a life-sustaining planet, you don’t have life,” said Sister Jane Belanger, who’s lived on the farm for about 13 years. “And if I could quote scripture, ‘I came to bring life and bring it more abundantly.’”
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A member of Kansas City s New Reform Temple lights the outdoor menorah in a recent Hanukkah celebration.
Like everything else, winter holidays won t look like normal in 2020. Area faith groups face their challenges head on.
Pastor Ronald Lindsay’s voice brightens as he talks about his church’s past Christmas celebrations.
“We do a variety of songs of faith and secular songs that are endearing to us in the moment of Christmas, have a few testimonies, maybe a story, a narrative that is moving that invites us to visit why the birth of Christ is important,” he explains about his services at Concord Fortress of Hope in Kansas City, Missouri, where he’s been the pastor for 30 years.