Commentary

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.