FāVS News News and Commentary about Religion and Ethics in Eastern Washington and North Idaho
“Profane Parables: Subverting the Religion of the American Dream” by Matthew Rindge
Film director George Miller (whose diverse credits include “Mad Max: Fury Road,” the original “Mad Max,” “Babe,” and “Happy Feet”) once remarked…(READ MORE)
“When Faith Meets Film” by Neal Schindler
Religious faith can be such a personal thing that film and TV rarely portray it in ways that mirror its complexity, pitfalls, and joys. (READ MORE)
“Faith and Film – Disconnecting” by Carrie Lockhert
Swipe left. And again. Faster! Someone is hovering behind me, clearly impatient at my inability to make up my mind. (READ MORE)
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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.
