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Each week our parent organization, The Religion News Service, produces the Godcast. This week four the five FAV editors were the guests. Listen to us talk about our sites, our contributors and our towns here (or here, if you don’t have iTunes). And don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast.
Big news this week was the Episcopal Church’s decision to approve same-sex union rites. Local leaders at the triennial convention, being held in Indianapolis, are happy with this move, but Episcopalians from South Carolina — not so much. Though this news is what made headlines, other important issues were discussed at the convention as well. The Episcopal News Service provides this handy wrap-up here.
And let’s not forget our Methodist friends have also been in legislative sessions. The 2012 Pacific Northwest Annual Conference for the Pacific Northwest UMC wrapped up yesterday. Jesse Love, print and publications manager, blogs about it here. The Western Jurisdictional Conference begins July 18.
If you haven’t already, check out the video above. Two of my students from the Arab Journalism Project produced it about a young WSU student who converted from Christianity to Islam. My students, who have now left Pullman and are touring Seattle and will soon be returning to their home countries, made some amazing videos that I’ll be sharing with you periodically. Hope you don’t mind.
Finally, have you heard of SpokaneCares yet? It’s a local website that highlights area service opportunities. The Latter-day Sentinel published a feature on the site recently that’s worth reading.
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.
