FāVS News News and Commentary about Religion and Ethics in Eastern Washington and North Idaho
As people of faith, is it OK to be mad at times? Anger seems to contradict our behavioral expectations. Does being nice equate being good?
Join us at Indaba Coffee at 10 a.m. today (Saturday) for our next Coffee Talk, where our panelists will discuss this issue.
Panelists this month will be Jewish writer Neal Schindler, Buddhist writer Sicco Rood, Methodist writer the Rev. Deb Conklin and Lutheran writer the Rev. Liv Larson Andrews.
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.
