Jan Shannon

NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernik has refused to stand for the National Anthem during preseason football games as a way to raise awareness to issues surrounding race, discrimination and inequality. Fans have both supported and heckled the athlete for his decision.

My mom, God rest her soul, was my example for adulting, especially on issues like alcohol, but much of the behavior I see around me suggests that my mom’s example is not being followed by many in Christianity, because from what I can see, y’all drink too much.

Working with Jewish, New Thought, Buddhist, and other Christian clergy, we are attempting to put together a worship service so that Spokane's LGBTQ+ folk will feel celebrated and affirmed.

Living with depression is like riding a bicycle with flat tires. You try SO hard, pedal with all your might, but you just crawl along, never able to achieve that feeling of flying that riding a bike should give you.

Amazing — I use that word a lot. Amazing actually means — “causing great surprise or wonder; astonishing.”

Each month SpokaneFāVS hosts Pub Talk as a way to continue the topics brought up at the month's Coffee Talk.

Our attempts to understand death, the why of it, not the how, are fueled by grief and fear and loss.