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Thanks for a first successful Coffee Talk!

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Panelists discuss the Newtown shooting.
Panelists discuss the Newtown shooting.

Spokane Faith & Values readers packed the house this morning at Chairs Coffee where we held our first “Coffee Talk.”

More than 30 people came to the event to talk with six of our writers about faith, God and the Newtown shooting.

Panelists were Kyle Franklin, Dean Bill Ellis, Joe Newby, the Rev. Joe Niemiec Jr., Pastor Eric Blauer and Bruce Meyer. 

The conversation touched on gun control, violence in society, youth, education and much, much more. Perhaps the strongest message everyone walked away with was that we're all part of this community, and need help those on the fringes of this community.

We look forward to our next “Coffee Talk” in February. Stay tuned for details! And a big thanks to everyone who attended for making our first conversation a success!

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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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