Courageous Conversations is a Unite KC podcast hosted by Ray Jarrett and Gary Kendall. The show creates space for honest dialogue about race, faith, and unity in Kansas City. Each episode features meaningful conversations with local leaders and community voices—conversations that are often left unheard but desperately needed. Through stories, humor, and trusted guests, Ray and Gary demonstrate how to build bridges, ask hard questions, and take the lid off topics that too often divide us.

Do You Want to Be Happy? Everyone wants to be happy. We spend our money, time, and energy chasing our version of the good life. And on the way, we run ourselves into physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion. But what if the happiness we’re all striving for isn’t the happiness we were created for? Pastor and author Dr. Derwin L. Gray believes there is a better road to happiness, and it is found in the Beatitudes of Jesus. In this section of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus revealed the shocki ...