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Reading Time: < 1minuteStephy Nobles-Beans sings during Gospel Explosion at Whitworth/Tracy Simmons – SpokaneFAVS
“How many of you are ready to praise the Lord?,” Stephy Nobles-Beans said to a chapel filled with Spokane church-goers and Whitworth University students.
She was answered with a few cheers and claps.
“I said, how many of you really want to praise the Lord?!,” she asked again, this time waking the audience, still thawing from the below-average temperatures they endured to come to the Gospel Explosion performance.
Eight Gospel choirs from across the area, including Whitworth’s Exceptional Praise Choir, gathered at Whitworth’s Seeley G. Mudd Chapel to celebrate both Black History Month and perform throwback Gospel songs.
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.
