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Spokane’s Religion Wrap-up: Coffee Talk, Our Place, Bishop Cupich, Civil Disobedience and Hell

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Hopefully you marked your calendar for next weekend’s “Coffee Talk.” This is part of our monthly conversation and faith and theology. The discussion this time will be on “Violence and the Sacred.” It will be at 10 a.m. on Feb. 2 at Boots Bakery. Here are some details for you. See you there, yes?

The Spokane International Film Festival will be the same weekend as our “Coffee Talk.” At 11:30 a.m. on Feb. 3 “Hellbound?” will be shown at the Magic Lantern Theatre. Looks fascinating.

Then, later in February, Our Place will have a fundraiser at Gonzaga’s Magnuson Theatre where “The Force of Habit” comedy will be shown. This is to celebrate the organization’s 25th anniversary. Tickets are $25 and include a reception with a silent auction, wine and appetizers. For info call 326-7267.

On the first Friday of the month through June you can visit with Bishop Blase Cupich, of the Catholic Diocese of Spokane at Immaculate Heart Retreat Center. The monthly event starts with Mass at 11:15 a.m., then lunch. Tickets are $15.

This has been all stuff happening in February, but there’s still some interesting things happening this month, too. On Jan. 29 Envision Spokane will host, “Slaves, Suffragans and Civil Rights.” This will be a conversation in the Community Building lobby about civil disobedience. Here’s some info.

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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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