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Today favs.news was featured on ProgressPlanet.com.

Tracy Simmons is the editor and community manager of favs.news, an online resource for non-sectarian coverage of religion and spirituality in the Spokane, WA area.

For the fourth time in five years, Whitworth University was named a top school in the country on CollegesofDistincton.com, an online guide that takes a fresh look at colleges and universities appealing to students’ unique and varied interests. Based on the opinions of guidance counselors, educators, and admissions professionals, Colleges of Distinction honors colleges excelling in key areas of educational quality, according to a news release.

Constitutional law should be supreme, but I think any judge worth their salt would consider all issues involved in a case but in the end this is America a country founded on a constitution.

Some of you are going to applaud us for bringing a Pagan writer onboard, and some of you are going to be less than pleased. But let me remind you of our mission to be "a gathering place for non-sectarian coverage of faith and values news from the Spokane area."

Ongoing violence in Nigeria has exacerbated tensions between the country's Muslims and Christians. Nigeria has equal numbers of Christians and Muslims, and 92 percent of the country's population says they pray every day, according to a 2010 poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

As someone who has done a great deal of moving, I consider myself to be a bit of an “inside outsider” when it comes to the church experience.

Each week our parent organization, The Religion News Service, produces the Godcast. This week four the five FAV editors were the guests.