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SpokaneFāVS, an online religion news publication, is opening the FāVS Center: A Faith and Non-Faith Community Space in June after being gifted a building and 3-acres on Spokane’s South Hill. The SpokaneFāVS board agreed that using the property to foster interfaith dialogue would enhance the organization’s mission to create community …

Join FāVS panelists for a discussion on “The Future of Interfaith.” They’ll discuss the importance of inter-religious, spiritual and secular work here in Spokane, what it looks like today and what it could like in the future. This is also a chance to see the future of Spokane’s new Interfaith …

We sit across from them, face-to-face, not to convert them to our denominational brand, but because one of the worst storms in human history is brewing, and each one is already (as per the Book of Jonah) crying out to their own gods.

And here, I arrive at the the reason I support what Spokane FāV’s has accomplished, and is doing. On Jan. 6, the congregation, known as Origin Church—known formerly, as Covenant Christian, and previous to that, as Central Christian--votes to make a gift of its property to the imaginative and prophetic genius of a religion journalist, Tracy Simmons, and to the Board of Spokane FāV’s.

I know what you are thinking, why invite someone from a different faith tradition to be a minister at your church for the day?

According to Mace, the goal of the picnic is to start a conversation on the issue, educate people on what is happening, “introduce people in Spokane, with the congregations, to Nimiipuu, to the Nez Perce,” and describe what is at stake to this group and what the salmon mean to them.