Community of Christ News

Yesterday on Daily RFT we had a couple bones to pick with a misleading headline in the local daily and the bible-thumping defenders of Burrell E. Mohler Sr .

A second police search of the Independence property of Burrell Mohler Sr., charged with an array of sexual offenses against some of his grandchildren, turned up child incest pamphlets.Also seized were more adult movies, including a pornographic DVD about having sex with Grandma & Grandpa, according to new documents released today.Other items listed ...

The church failed these children. The words went unwritten in yesterday's Kansas City Star .

A public prayer vigil has been scheduled for tonight by the Community of Christ church in response to arrests last week in the Lafayette County child abuse investigation.The vigil is from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Community of Christ Temple, 201 S. River Blvd., Independence.It has been prompted by the arrests of six members of the Mohler family, some of ...

Patrick Wilson, an exhibit specialist at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Mo., helped his colleague, Don Chaffee, , hang incandesent track lighting for the new exhibit, "Capture The Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs," a traveling exhibit collection of 139 winners of the most prestigious photojournalism award, opens Nov.

An early morning fire destroyed a West Monroe church. Curt Meachum, Ouachita Parish fire investigator, said nothing was left of the Community of Christ church building and no one was injured in the fire.

Police did not have enough to charge Darrel Mohler earlier, but after examining the victims' statements, obtained enough information to charge him, Alumbaugh said.

The employer of one of the suspects said, "Everybody is still in shock ... disbelief," as news of the arrests spread through communities where several of the suspects live in western Missouri.

Five of the Mohlers appear in court in Lafayette County, Missouri, after their arrests.

The employer of one of the suspects said, "Everybody is still in shock ... disbelief," as news of the arrests spread through communities where several of the suspects live in western Missouri.

The sickening allegations against Burrell Mohler Sr. and four of his sons have brought unwelcome attention to the Community of Christ , a church that's headquartered in Independence.

Just up the road from the search site where investigators are looking for clues in the case of a family caught up in a sex abuse ring is the little Bates City Community Church.

Three of the five men charged in western Missouri with sex crimes against children are lay ministers in the Community of Christ church.

On April 6, 1860, the prophet Joseph Smith Jr.a s widow and eldest son traveled from Nauvoo to Amboy, Illinois, to attend the general conference of a a new organizationa of Midwestern Latter Day Saints.

This weekend, a Kimball Township church plans to celebrate what many people only dream of: Getting out of debt.

Last night, on a lark, I took down my copy of the "Revised Authorized Version" of The Book of Mormon and did a little reading.

From left, Crossroads at Crabapple Antique and Art Festival volunteers and Community of Christ church representatives Tass Welch and Kat Walker, festival organizer Sally Rich-Kolb and Goddard School owner Debra Braun discuss the children's area for the Oct.

A big poster of Mount Kilimanjaro has hung in Johnny Stabno's Independence home for more than two decades, a constant reminder of a dream to fulfill.

The Community of Christ will return to its regular hours beginning Sunday, Sept.

Visitors to a tiny church in Independence notice three things in its sanctuary:The upright piano with hymn book.The three stained-glass crosses in the west wall.The black, plastic trash bag stretched across the north wall.