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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Corbin Croy
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Please welcome Corbin Croy to our team of writers.
Croy, of Coeur d’Alene, considers himself a progressive Christian and leans on the writings of GK Chesterton, Paul Tillich, Martin Buber, Edward Schillebeeckx and John Shelby Spong.
He says his faith journey has been “choppy.” He grew up in a secular home, then became a born-again Christian, then an atheist, and has now found his way back to Christianity.
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.
