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Reading Time: < 1minuteMeet Anna Marie Martin, our wholeness and healing writer 1
Please welcome Anna Marie Martin to the Spokane Faith & Values team!
Anna Marie Martin holds Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary and has religious traditions, including: Wicca / WomanSpirit, Unitarian Universalist, Zen Buddhism, Presbyterianism, non-denominational Christian and the growing denomination of former Catholics.
Her main interest is in wholeness and healing, particularly traumas aided and abetted by religions.
You can read more about Martin on her author's page.
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.
Anna,
You sent me a request to join LINKEDIN.
Based on your background we have a common interest.
Let me know by email
Thanks,
Leon