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By Tracy Simmons

This has been a pivotal year for SpokaneFAVS. We broke away from our national partner, Religion News LLC, and began forming our own, local non-profit, with our own local board of trustees. We created a brand new website. You, the FAVS community, helped us raised the money we needed to do all this, and our 50-plus writers kept insightful content flowing on the site while this transition took place. Several of those posts not only appeared here, on SpokaneFAVS, but also in the Religion News Service, The Spokesman-Review, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Believe Out Loud, Red Letter Christian, Sojourners and other national publications.

These are the top 10 posts from 2014:

  1. Black is the New Black: White Privilege and White Fragility, by Matthew Rindge

  2. “Hell on Wheels” and its portrayal of Mormons, by Emily Geddes

  3. Op-ed warns conservative Christians to face persecution from pro-gay ‘homofascists’, by Joe Newby

  4. Ask A Buddhist: Can I be an agnostic/atheist Buddhist?, by Sarah Conover

  5. Why the Book of Mormon is worth seeing, and why I’m disappointed with local Mormon response, by Meredith Hutchison Hartley

  6. Stop celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., by Matthew Rindge

  7. Local group proselytizes using bullhorns and signs, by Tracy Simmons

  8. When Death Came Calling: a family’s encounter with Leukemia, by Julia Hayes

  9. A new way to be Catholic in Spokane, abroad, by Tracy Simmons

  10. The Real Problem With Downtown Spokane, by Blaine Stum

 



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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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Liv Larson Andrews
Liv Larson Andrews
11 years ago

Matt and Tracy make the list twice – wow! Well done.

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Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
11 years ago
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Thanks!

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