021: Relationships Over Efficiency

In this week's episode of The Social Leader, Fr. Justin Mathews talks with Fr. Alexii Altschul, Co-Founder of Reconciliation Services and Orthodox Christian priest-monk. 

They discuss the intimate history of Reconciliation Services and its humble beginnings as a personal mission of Thelma Altschul to serve her neighbors with what little she had; the difficulties of prioritizing relationships over efficiency in American culture and why we must de-politicize the healing of the human heart; why it's essential to acknowledge past societal trauma (including everything that's happened along Troost Avenue in the past 200 years) in order to build a new kind of community seeking racial and economic reconciliation in KC; and so much more.