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Faith Feast guests learn about Sikhism while eating an entree at the Sikh Gudwara of Spokane.
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This has been a good year. In 2013 Spokane Faith & Values saw tremendous growth — more writers, traffic, dialogue, content, attention and a budding “community within a community,” as one reader put it.

About two years ago this site started with a handful of local bloggers, plus myself. Today we have nearly 50 writers of various faiths. We held Faith Feast: An Interfaith Progressive Dinner in April and we’ve had 12 amazing Coffee Talks. We also started having mixers this year, to keep the conversations moving.

We launched a series of interactive features where you can write in questions: Father Knows Best, Ask An Atheist, Ask a Mormon, Ask a Buddhist and Ask a Religious Scientist.

And, we were named one of the top online religion news sites in the country.

Not bad.

Below are our 20 most popular SpokaneFAVS articles from 2013:

    1. Devout Mormon suspended from college class for refusing to ‘stomp on Jesus’
    2. Hell on Wheels and its portrayals of Mormons
    3. Stop celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.
    4. Idaho-based company creates pork-infused bullets to defend against Islamic
    5. Mars Hill Church to open satellite campus in Spokane
    6. Miley Cyrus and America’s double standard
    7. How daddy lost his cool
    8. Father Knows Best: 8 thoughts after a suicide
    9. Best one-liners from a lunch with Bolz-Weber and Sara Miles
    10. An apology from a Christian
    11. Westboro Baptist Church announces plans to protest Foley’s memorial in Spokane
    12. Historic Church Project: Who cares about some dumb old church anyway
    13. It’s time to retire the “born this way” argument
    14. Local Episcopal priest steps into new role
    15. A lesson from a painful memory
    16. Ask A Mormon: What would you change about the Church?
    17. Bikini baristas and the legacy of shame behind the female body
    18. The hardest goodbye
    19. Orthodox community blesses Spokane River
    20. The failure of Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty and progressives in the debate on homosexuality

Thanks for your support, and Happy New Year!

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
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 FāVS.News, 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.

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