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HRC Ministries Lists Property for Sale to Help More Sex Trafficking Victims

HRC Ministries wants to sell a piece of property they know God provided for them. Purchased in 2019, the property provided a safe space in a renovated home for women coming out of trafficking.

Can Drug-Addicted Women Have Healthy Babies? This San Juan Island Woman Says Yes.

Underneath that capable exterior is a woman who was a drug addict by her late teens. By the time she was 21, she was facing prison — and pregnant. Pressured on all sides to end the pregnancy and told that drug-addicted women couldn’t have healthy babies, she aborted the child.

Presbyterian Capital Campaign for Nimiipuu Churches Is about Repairing Buildings and Relations

The Presbytery of the Inland Northwest’s (PIN) “Building Towards Reconciliation” campaign is more than just raising money to repair six churches on the Nez Perce Reservation in north-central Idaho — churches that are the oldest in the presbytery and among the oldest in the state.

EWU Professor Brings Iranian Women’s Rights to the Forefront in Upcoming Panel

Arezoo Davari wanted to show solidarity with the women in Iran and to speak out against their oppression.As an associate professor of marketing at Eastern Washington University and an Iranian, Davari believed a college panel event of Iranian women talking about life in their country would be one way she could “do something.”

Indigenous Nonprofit Art Auction in Spokane Gives Native Artists a Space to Sell Artwork

Elk Soup, a Native American-owned nonprofit, held a Native Art Auction on Saturday at Gonzaga University’s Cataldo Hall to support Indigenous artists while raising funds for the nonprofit.

Spokane’s Harmony Woods Retreat Center Provides Sacred Space for All

When one opens the door and steps into Harmony Woods Retreat Center these words greet guests: “Please remove your shoes for the place in which you stand is holy ground.” Christi Ortiz, and her husband, Fernando, who built this yurt on their own property during COVID restrictions, hope all who enter their now one-year-old retreat center feel this sense of sacred with them.

In North Idaho, Religious and Secular Activists Work to Fight Christian Nationalism

Last month, dozens of activists packed into a small room in the Post Falls library for a board meeting of the Community Library Network. Some came to defend the library, but video of the meeting suggests most were there to condemn administrators for allowing children access to what they insisted were “pornographic” books.

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