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Today’s Coffee Talk to focus on Gender and Spirituality

By: Tracy Simmons

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February 13, 2013

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The idea for this morning's next “Coffee Talk” was spurred from guests of our previous discussions who wanted to know why we didn’t have more female panelists.

Spokane Faith & Values has 19 female contributors and 27 male contributors, a fair reflection of Spokane’s demographics.

However the comments got us thinking about gender and spirituality. How is gender equality handled in faith communities? How can or should it be improved? Though this isn’t necessarily a conversation about women’s rights, we’d like to provide a platform for the community to dialogue about how men and women can better work together.

Join us for an honest conversation about this issue at our next event, which will be at 10 a.m. March 2 at Indaba Coffee Bar.

More details are available on our Facebook page.

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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