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Meet Jamie Brannock, our Pagan writer

By: Tracy Simmons

Date:

July 16, 2012

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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.” That means all religious voices are welcome here with the hope that our contributors' content will create a dialogue that might otherwise not happen.

Jamie Brannock is our newest contributor and will be writing about her Pagan beliefs. Counting her, we have 38 community writers as part of the SpokaneFAVS team, including Christians, Buddhists, Atheists, Muslims, Unitarians, etc.

A recent poll estimates there are 768,400 witches and Pagans in the U.S., according to the Pluralism Project. And now one of those voices is now writing for us, so please join me in welcoming Brannock. You can read more about her here.

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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