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Tracy Simmons

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.

FāVS Religion News Roundup: Aug. 31, 2023

This week's FāVS Religion News Roundup includes hurricane Idalia's aftermath, Gray and Oregon wildfire survivors still needing help, the Mayor Woodward and Matt Shea story making it to Rolling Stone magazine, HRC Ministries promoting human trafficking awareness and more.

FāVS Religion News Roundup: Aug. 24, 2023

This week's post includes helping Gray Fire victims, Mayor Nadine Woodward's appearance on stage with Christian nationalists, a Whitworth professor named a 2023 Young Scholar in American Religion and a Jehovah's Witness Regional Convention to be held in Russian.

With this Ring, I Felt Chosen

My partner’s family was going all in to help us plan the big day. More importantly, they gave us their support. I wasn’t sure if my mom even knew I was getting married. Had anyone told her?

FāVS Religion News Roundup: Aug. 17, 2023

This week's post highlights locals helping Maui, a Spokane Buddhist Temple being robbed, St. Mary's historic home to be demolished on the Sacred Heart campus, St. John's Cathedral and a successful Backpacks for Kids drive.

Fostering Community Through Food: Inside the Only Halal Store in Southeastern Washington

Until June, PNW Halal Meats, LLC, had been hidden away on the northeast side of town in Pullman, Washington, close to the Washington State University campus. The store was cramped with a confined parking lot, easy to miss if one wasn’t looking for it.

FāVS Religion News Roundup: A Pastor, a Hispanic Festival and a New Climate Change Law

This FāVS Religion News Roundup covers the Rev. Liv Larson transitioning from her pastor role at Salem Lutheran Church, the Salvation Army Food Bank receiving a 40,000 pound donation of food from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the third annual Tacos y Tequila Festival and new statewide climate change legislation for local governments.

FāVS Religion News Roundup: Pro-Abortion Health Plans in Churches, a Mosque Burglary, Stained Glass Windows & More

This FāVS Religion News Roundup covers abortion rights in church health plans, a story of a burglarized mosque in Federal Way, The Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes in Spokane getting their stained glass windows cleaned to the tune of $400,000, a new thrift store in Spokane Valley and a new pastor at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Moscow, Idaho.

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