To promote dialogue and debate between religion and science, the Kansas City Religion and Science Dialogue Project brings together members of the Kansas City community to discuss issues of common interest. The goal is to foster an atmosphere of respect and humility.

The Dialogue Project provides a public lecture series, featuring diverse perspectives and topics, informal discussion groups, workshops, conferences, and website. Lectures are free and cover such areas as human cloning, cosmology, and the Human Genome Project. The Dialogue Project is developing programs relevant to local interests. Because of the region’s agricultural context, future programming includes the issue of genetically modified crops. Similarly, the creation-evolution debate is featured in upcoming programming because of controversy generated by the Kansas Board of Education in reviewing science education standards.

The Dialogue Project plans workshops once or twice yearly to offer deeper approaches to key issues. Conferences are scheduled usually once a year at in collaboration with local universities in order to raise academic consciousness about research possibilities in science and religion scholarship. In addition, informal discussion groups are a part of the Dialogue Project that encourages reading and discussion of leading thinkers in science and religion.

The aim of the Kansas City Religion and Science Dialogue Project is to develop a network of religious leaders, scientists, scholars, and members from the larger Kansas City community who share a common interest in promoting dialogue between science and religion on important and timely issues.