Thanks everyone for a great Coffee Talk! About 40 people attended. Here’s a video of the panelists.
The discussion will continue tonight (April 2) at 6:30 p.m. at The Lantern, for “Courageous Conversations,” hosted by Rev. Deb Conklin.
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Join SpokaneFāVS at 10 a.m., today (April 1) for a Coffee Talk discussion on “The Nature of Truth.”
Panelists include SpokaneFāVS writers Neal Schindler, Elizabeth Backstrom, and Naghmana Ahmed-Sherazi, and guest panelist Dean Bill Ellis of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist.
On the topic, panelists wrote:
- Post-factual, pre-factual and truth, by Dean Bill Ellis
- On the Nature of Truth by Neal Schindler
- Can journalists truly be unbiased? by Elizabeth Backstrom
The event will be held at Liberty Park United Methodist Church, 1526 E 11th Ave. Limited coffee drinks will be available for a donation to LPUMC.
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Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of SpokaneFāVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.