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Immaculate Heart to host dinner discussion on the environment

By: Tracy Simmons

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September 22, 2016

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Immaculate Heart Retreat Center will host the first evening of a dinner series on Laudato Si:, “Practical Stewardship and Our Responsibility (Part 1)” led by Bishop Emeritus William Skylstad, and the Rev. Joseph Sullivan on Tuesday. The dinner will begin at 5:30 p.m. and the conferences end by 8:30 p.m. The cost for this dinner is $38 per person.

In response to Pope Francis’ Laudato Si, Skylstad Sullivan, a geologist, will open a discussion about the document explaining the principles of the biblical foundations and church teaching about the environment and humankind’s responsibility to care for it. Included will be presentations with slides of stories and events, events in the Northwest, according to a press release.

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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