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Meet Amy C. Rice, our arts and entertainment writer

SpokaneFAVS is pleased to welcome Amy C. Rice to its growing team of writers!

Rice is a technical services and systems librarian at Whitworth University and has been attending Nazarene churches for most of her life.

How did Mormons grow so fast? They changed how they counted

If you suspected the newly released U.S. Religion Census overstated the Mormons' growth rate, you were right. That’s because, this time around, the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints changed the way it reported its membership to the researchers.

Spokane’s religion wrap-up: Bloomsday, Cinco de Mayo, meditation and improving West Central

It’s Bloomsday weekend, which for downtown churches pretty much means limited parking or canceled services. But some churches are building services around the big event.

Take action and help the mentally ill

What separates us as people? I mean really separates us?

With eye on Kenya, graduate hopes to build community

Scott Jones won’t be using his graduate degree in architecture to find a high-paying job. After graduating on Saturday, he will be starting his own nonprofit organization, and his first project is in Kenya.

Finding wonder in each other’s stories

Everyone had a story and we should learn and share with each other our story and hear others’ stories. The hope was that by providing a place of self-revelation bonds could formed and the Gospel shared.

Methodists uphold policy that calls homosexuality ‘incompatible with Christian teaching’

Despite emotional protests and fierce lobbying from gay rights groups, United Methodists voted on Thursday (May 2) to maintain their denomination’s stance that the practice of homosexuality is “incompatible with Christian teaching.”

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