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Each month SpokaneFAVS invites the community to come visit with its writers, board members and readers at an informal social mixer.

New Direction Ministries is road tripping across Canada and the west coast to discuss sexuality and religion. Their next stop: Spokane.

Each week more than 100 adults pour into a downtown Spokane church, unshaken by the knotty departure of their lead pastor, Mark Driscoll, and the recent news that their church wouldn’t be a Mars Hill Church satellite after all.

The Rev. Tom Altepeter of St. Clare Ecumenical Catholic Community, a church he once described as a "a homeless shelter for homeless Catholics," was selected as the first bishop-elect for the region on Sept. 28 and will be the sixth regional bishop in the ECC.

(RNS) In the West, the idea that religion is inherently violent is taken for granted by everyone from academics to cab drivers, says British...

Paine Hamblen LLP, the law firm of accused by the Catholic Diocese of Spokane of mismanaging a 2007 bankruptcy and settlement regarding clergy sex abuse victims filed a motion in federal bankruptcy court this week to dismiss the claims.

Efforts to reform Spokane's criminal justice system are under way. The Smart Justice Spokane Community Symposium will be held Saturday (Nov. 15) from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Gonzaga University School of Law.