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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 FāVS.News, 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.

Retreat Center offers Holy Week Retreats

Immaculate Heart Retreat Center will offer two Holy Week retreats this month — one for women and one for me.

Upcoming lecture at Gonzaga to address Christian ethics and immigration

Kristin E. Heyer, professor of theological ethics at Boston College, will discuss “Cultivating Civic Kinship: A Christian Ethic of Immigration,” at Gonzaga University’s Flannery Lecture at 6 p.m., Monday, Feb. 26 in the Hemmingson Center Ballroom.

Gonzaga Lecture: Is this Global Warming?

The Spokane community is invited to a lecture on campus Monday titled, "Is This Global Warming?"

A First in America: Buddhist Master Teacher coming to Sravasti for historic trainining

Fifty Buddhist nuns from nine countries will converge at Sravasti Abbey north of Spokane for Living Vinaya in the West, an historic, 16-day training program.

Spokane Women’s March ready for second year

Despite cancelation notices on social media, "The 2018 Spokane Women’s Persistence March" is a go.

Retreat examines how to love people who bug you

This month Immaculate Heart Retreat Center will be hosting a Day of Reflection Titled “Loving People Who Bug You and the Art of Journaling.”

FāVS year in review: Hate groups, Women’s March, “Abortion isn’t Simple”

The news has taken us all over the place this year, from the Spokane Women's March, to vandalism throughout our town to new leadership in the ELCA Synod. And FāVS columnists have shared their thoughts along the way with reflections on pressing issues like abortion and Planned Parenthood, and the popular FāVS "Ask" columns.

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