Coffee Talk: Angry at God

At Couer Coffee, in May 2013, SpokaneFAVS held a Coffee Talk titled “Angry at God.” Related posts are below.

“Reveling in the silence”

Namaste’ readers. After this weekend’s Coffee Talk I discovered I have something to say about silence. Read more. 

“Dark night of the soul and what I discover in the strangest places”

Picture this: an adolescent girl is visited by a series of people who claim to be God. Read more.

“When God becomes ‘too much'”

My anger with God comes from not being able to escape from God’s presence. Read more.

“Angry, but not with God”

Patriarchy. British Petroleum. Mel Gibson. Drones. I don’t think of myself as getting angry all that often. Read more.

“Who hurt her?”

I’ve had some great therapists over the years, and that’s almost reason enough to have endured the things that made me seek out therapy. Read more.

“Angry at God or alienated from God?”

Tragic events like the Boston Marathon bombing rip lives apart. An understandable reaction might be anger at God. Read more.

“Whose fault is the Boston Marathon bombing?”

Is it only the fault of the Tsarnaev brothers, or does the wider society share in the blame? Read more.

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Tracy Simmons is an award winning journalist specializing in religion reporting, digital entrepreneurship and social journalism. In her 15 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 and Connecticut. Currently she serves as the executive director of SpokaneFAVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Wash. She is also a Scholarly Assistant Professor at Washington State University.

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