This week’s rnewsoundup includes Spokane’s proposed Urban Native Advisory Council, a major food donation in Pullman, Muckleshoot salmon traditions, and more.
His Holiness Moran Mar Baselios Marthoma Mathews III visited Spokane, leading Holy Qurbana at St. Gregorios Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
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In this episode of FāVS Forward, we talk with Rev. Walter Kendricks of Morning Star Baptist Church. Kendricks says it’s the best church in Spokane, though he admits he’s a little biased.
He considers himself an activist pastor and talks about his work in the African American community, both locally and statewide.
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 SpokaneFāVS.com, 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.
