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Coffee Talk: The Challenges and Importance of Interfaith Work in Spokane

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In January SpokaneFAVS led a Coffee Talk discussion on the importance and challenges of interfaith work in Spokane. Below are related posts.

 

January Coffee Talk, 2014
January Coffee Talk, 2014

January Coffee Talk Reading List

At January’s Coffee Talk our panelists suggested several books people could read to start thinking more about interfaith work.

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Tracy Simmons
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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