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VIDEO: Coffee Talk “The Role of Holidays in Different Faith Traditions”

By: Tracy Simmons

Date:

April 5, 2021

VIDEO: Coffee Talk On “The Role of Holidays in Different Faith Traditions”

On April 3 SpokaneFāVS held a virtual Coffee Talk, “The Role of Holidays in Different Faith Traditions.”

This was a timely topic with it falling on Easter weekend, on the Western Christian calendar.

Panelists were:

Rev. Katy Shedlock of Creators Table and Audubon Park United Methodist Church
Himani Agrawal of the Spokane Hindu Temple and Cultural Center, and a SpokaneFāVS board member
Prof. Brian Siebeking of Gonzaga’s Religious Studies Department. Brian is an Orthodox Christian and scholar of Islam and will be able to speak to both.

The panel was moderated by Katie Blair, who is finishing up a fellowship with FāVS.

The next Coffee Talk will be in June. Check back for details.

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 Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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