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Mars Hill Church announced earlier this month that it would be closing three of its locations due to financial strains. The forthcoming Mars Hill Spokane is not one of them.

Uber-atheist Sam Harris is getting all spiritual. In his new book, “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion,” the usually outspoken critic of religion describes how spirituality can and must be divorced from religion if the human mind is to reach its full potential.

One Peace, Many Paths is bringing the Compassion Games to the Spokane area Sept. 11-21. This is an international effort to increase compassionate expressions and compassionate actions around the world.

The issue has come to be identified with the wealthy industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch, whose huge contributions to conservative political causes have raised concerns about the role of “dark money” on elections.

A well-established international Christian student group is being denied recognition at almost two dozen California college campuses because it requires leaders to adhere to Christian beliefs, effectively closing its leadership ranks to non-Christians and gays.

Coffee and Contemplation, a spiritual discussion and prayer event for people of all denominations at Immaculate Heart Retreat Center, continues this month with the Rev. Gretchen Rehberg, rector of the Nativity Episcopal Church in Lewiston, Idaho.

As thousands gathered Friday (Sept. 5) at Temple Beth Am in Miami to mourn journalist Steven Sotloff, they paid tribute to the one quality his family and friends tried hard to conceal from his Islamic State captors: his Jewishness.