When the Soup Kitchen Closed on Sundays

For fifteen years, Grace Community Church in Wichita, Kansas ran a Thursday night soup kitchen that fed over two hundred people each week. Volunteers wore matching t-shirts. The worship team played during meals. The church's website featured a rotating banner of smiling faces ladling stew into styrofoam bowls. Then in 2019, a local journalist named David Ochoa published a story revealing that the same church had quietly lobbied the city council to block a proposed affordable housing development three blocks from their building.…