FāVS News

Brothers Phillip and Stephen Blanchett will bring their original Inuit music group — PAMYUA — to Spokane this Friday at Gonzaga’s Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, 211 E. DeSmet Ave.

YWCA Spokane recently announced its Equity For All annual event will take place on April 25. This gathering will include performances from local artists and a panel of community experts who will discuss maternal health in our communities of color.

While a Spokane nonprofit promotes sustainable practices for the Expo '74 anniversary and YWCA Spokane receives a $12.1M grant, CAIR-WA is surveying the state's Muslim community. Meanwhile, the Christian band MercyMe performs in Spokane this weekend.

FāVS News will present a community dialogue titled "Faith Shifts: Keeping or Losing It" on Saturday, April 13 at 5 p.m. at The Hive, 2904 E Sprague Ave. This roundtable event will feature a discussion led by Sarah Henn Hayward, author of "Giving Up God" and Rev. Scott Kinder-Pyle, interim pastor of Salem Lutheran Church.

Diverse topics such as environmental justice tied to Spokane's 50th anniversary of Expo '74, a Journey to the Cross, Islamophobia on University of Washington's campus and how adoption got easier for religious parents in Idaho but may be harder for LGBTQ adoptees are just some of the themes we explore in this week's Roundup.

Here is a list of the variety of services happening this Holy Week. This list is only a sample. If you don’t see your church and would like to have it added, please send your service times to Cassy Benefield at [email protected]. 

A one-time viewing of “God & Country” will take place on Saturday, April 13, at 2 p.m., at the Kenworthy Theater in Moscow, Idaho. the film looks at the implications of Christian nationalism and how it distorts the constitutional republic, but Christianity itself.