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BRIEF: Bestselling author Bart D. Ehrman coming to Spokane

By: Tracy Simmons

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May 9, 2013

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Bart D. Ehrman, author of “Misquoting Jesus,” “Jesus Interrupted” and other New York Times bestsellers will be speaking in Spokane later this month.

His free lecture, sponsored by Eastern Washington University and the Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation, will be at 6:30 p.m., May 23, at the The Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. A book signing will follow.

Ehrman has authored more than 20 books and is a distinguished professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity.

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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