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BRIEF: Fig Tree concludes 30th anniversary celebration with dinner, keynote speaker

By: Tracy Simmons

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April 16, 2014

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The Fig Tree will conclude its 30th anniversary celebration on April 30 with a anniversary dinner featuring Michael Kinnamon, an educator, author about and leader in the ecumenical movement globally and nationally.

Kinnamon will deliver a presentation titled “Telling Stories of Belonging Together: Ecumenism as a Movement of Communication.” According to a press release, the dinner will also include, “an overview of stories with a liturgical dance, music and reflections on The Fig Tree story, its life today and future directions by Mary Stamp, editor, who co-founded the publication in 1984 with Holy Names Sister Bernadine Casey.”

Tickets are $30 and can be purchased by calling 535-1813 or emailing Fig Tree Editor Mary Stamp at mary@thefigtree.org.

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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