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Ryan Downie
Ryan Downie

Epictetus said, “Content yourself with being a lover of wisdom, a seeker of the truth.” One could say this is the very purpose of Ryan Downie's life. What drives him, he said, is knowledge and understanding, an insatiable desire to learn.

“Truth has always been important to me. I was raised in the evangelical Christian tradition and became a Christian at a very young age,” he said. “By the time I graduated high school I believed the ministry was my calling, specifically theology and apologetics. But in my pursuit of truth, knowledge and understanding I began to harbor deep doubts and ironically Bible college became something of an incubator for those doubts.”

Instead Downie began to focus his studies on science, philosophy and logic and as a consequence of these studies said he fell in love with the beautiful and rigorous world of mathematics.

Read his full bio here.

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 Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
12 years ago

Welcome to the SpokaneFAVS team Ryan!

Ryan Downie
Ryan Downie
12 years ago

Thank you! I am very happy to be involved.

Bruce
Bruce
12 years ago

Welcome aboard!

Ryan Downie
Ryan Downie
12 years ago

I appreciate your inviting me Bruce! Now we can take our always lively debates to the next level 🙂

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