Tracy Simmons

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.

Priest to Lead Retreat on How to Pray

April 17, 2015 News 0

Immaculate Heart Retreat Center will host a Day of Prayer on Prayer entitled, “Prayer-How do you do it? Simple Strategies and Practical Solutions,” which will be lead by the Rev. Jeff Core on April 22.

Jay Sekulow and the mind of the Kulturkampf Tortucan ideologue

April 16, 2015 Commentary 0

Sekulow’s understandable and appropriate umbrage over the recent violent persecution of Christians (which would include the horrific targeting of Christian students recently in Kenya) has, however, never extended to even a mention of huge numbers of non-Christians being likewise assailed, including several atheists hacked to death by religious ideologues in Pakistan.