FāVS News News and Commentary about Religion and Ethics in Eastern Washington and North Idaho
In 2016 SpokaneFāVS published thousands of columns and news stories. Judging by traffic numbers, these ones were your favorites:
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I’d forgotten why I became a religion reporter, by Tracy Simmons
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Father Knows Best: Where is the Christian Left?, by Rev. Martin Elfert
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Why didn’t they come forward sooner? This is why, by Elizabeth Backstrom
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Spokane’s Sikh Temple vandalized, by Tracy Simmons
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Life Center’s Joe Wittwer to receive ministry leadership award from Whitworth
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Bethany’s Paul Rodkey retires; joins the Peace Corps, by Lindsey Treffry
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“LGBTQ people are vital members of every faith and system of life”, by Adrian Adams Pauw
We hope you’ll continue to be a loyal FāVS reader again this year!
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of SpokaneFāVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
