Please welcome Cara Strickland to the SpokaneFAVS team of writers. Strickland, an avid blogger and a member of Salem Lutheran Church.

In the Dalai Lama’s latest book, “Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions,” co-authored by American Tibetan Buddhist nun, Venerable Thubten Chodron, various practices are explained and misconceptions are corrected.

The Spokane Alliance plans to pack the city council chambers at Monday's City Council meeting to ask Council President Ben Stuckart and members of the council to pass three Quality Job ordinances.

The Spokane Buddhist Temple will host a New Year's Eve Joya-E Service, or Bell of the Last Night, on Dec. 31 at 7 p.m.

A Die-In is set to take place at 12:05 p.m. today at the Crosby Student Center at Gonzaga University in response to the lack of grand jury indictments in the cases of Ferguson and Staten Island.

Please welcome John Hancock to the team of SpokaneFAVS writers. Hancock is the founder of Friends of Compassion, a group that met regularly throughout Spokane for numerous years, and he plans to write about compassion for SpokaneFAVS.