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Please welcome Katie Cunningham to SpokaneFAVS!

Although it hasn't swept the nation like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, the #FAVSChallenge is still slowly making its way through the Spokane area.

Temple Beth Shalom, Spokane’s Conservative Jewish congregation, didn’t have to look far to find its new rabbi. Rabbi Tamar Malino has been serving Spokane’s Jewish community for the past few years, working part-time as the executive director of Spokane Area Jewish Family Services and part-time as the rabbi at Congregation Emanu-El, the local reform Jewish congregation.

As more states affirm same-sex marriage, U.S. evangelicals continue to wrestle with homosexuality, setting boundaries for what’s acceptable and what’s not, and setting the stage for a heated fall election season.

After he said “Christians have no greater ally than Israel,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was heckled off the stage at a Wednesday night (Sept. 10) gala to raise awareness of beleaguered Mideast Christians.

In observance of the “National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims”, the Spokane County Victim-Witness Unit in the Prosecutor’s Office is organizing a vigil for Sept. 25 and a memorial display on Sept. 26.

U.S. religious congregations are marching to their own drums now more than ever. The National Congregations Study‘s latest look at the country’s churches, synagogues and mosques — the third wave of studies that began in 1998 — finds more congregations: