The Keynote Speakers of the 2007 Festival of Faiths were Dr. Judea Pearl and Dr. Akbar Ahmed. They appeared November 13, 2007 at Village Presbyterian Church.

Our volunteer committee began a process in Fall 2005 to identify an appropriate program to further the successful practice of religious pluralism in our community, drawing on local, national and global resources. We engaged in approximately six months of relationship building and exploration, which included attending interfaith activities and events in Kansas City and meeting with community and religious leaders. In meeting with Dr. Diana Eck, Harvard professor of religious pluralism, we were urged to look at Louisville, Kentucky’s successful model of a Festival of Faiths and explore how we might bring that model to Kansas City. We then developed a plan to launch the first annual Festival of Faiths in Kansas City in November 2007 and seed funding was provided by the Village Presbyterian Church Endowment Trust.