Journalist Julia C. Duin will be speaking at Gonzaga University’s John J. Hemmingson Center Saturday at 2 p.m., where she will be discussing Pentecostal snake handlers and other subjects covered in her most recent book “In the House of the Serpent Handler: A Story of Faith and Fleeting Fame in the Age of Social Media.”

Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein, an associate professor in religious studies at Gonzaga University, and the Jewish Bulldogs hosted a Passover Seder Wednesday night at the Globe room in Cataldo Hall where attendees not only received a meal, but also a lesson on it, its traditions and what each food and practice symbolized as people engaged in discussion and song. 

The reason why Selzer gives time and money to the organization, she said, is because she has seen what it has accomplished and what it is looking to accomplish in the future.

This weekend, South Hill Seventh-Day Adventist Church at 5607 S Freya St, will be hosting its 11th annual Journey to Bethlehem event giving attendees a tour of the birth of Jesus Christ.

One Peace, Many Paths is inviting people to participate in its fourth year sponsoring the Global Unity Compassion Games that will take place in Spokane from Sept. 9 to 24 as a way to increase expressing compassion through “random acts of kindness, community events and group service projects.”

“I think, particularly, that we can invest millions and billions of dollars into education,” Riccelli said.  “But we know that kids won’t be successful if they’re trying to do their homework by the dome light of a car.”