FāVS News News and Commentary about Religion and Ethics in Eastern Washington and North Idaho
<p> Today about 20 faith leaders came together to show their support for Referendum 74. They spoke outside Double Tree Inn, where Rick Santorum was speaking against the referendum.</p> <p> View photos on our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/SpokaneFAVS">Facebook page</a>, and read the <a href="http://spokanefavs.com/culture/gender-and-sexuality/clergy-lay-people-counter-santorum-visit-with-rally-for-love-demonstration">full story here.</a></p>
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.
