SpokaneFāVS
Please join me in welcoming Rev. Thomas Altepeter to the SpokaneFAVS team.
Altepeter is the pastor of St. Clare Ecumenical Catholic Community, which “offers a different way to be Catholic.”
The church is not under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Church, yet shares a common theological and liturgical history.
Altepeter, who is also a licensed psychologist, has a special interest in spirituality, the integration of spirituality with emotional well being, and a contemporary approach to living within the Catholic Christian tradition.
You can read more about him on his author's page.
Tracy Simmons is an award winning journalist specializing in religion reporting, digital entrepreneurship and social journalism. In her 15 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 and Connecticut. Currently she serves as the executive director of SpokaneFAVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Wash. She is also a Scholarly Assistant Professor at Washington State University.
