Tomorrow (March 21) is the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Baha’i calendar, it’s celebrated annually as Naw-Ruz.

For the second time in three years, progressive Christian icon and best-selling author Diana Butler Bass is coming to the Palouse, this time to speak at a series of events for the 40th annual Roger Williams Symposium in Pullman.

Afterlife is one of the fundamental beliefs in the Abrahamic faiths and as well as in many other faiths.

In the last two weeks, I have seen the work of numerous Esthers carrying on her legacy.

There’s an analogous negative and positive revelation, the focus of the rest of this column: we are one with the wild.

As congregations shrink and close, church leaders must decide whether to give their buildings a second life.