A columnist reflects on Parkinson’s dance classes, the Raven creation story and how Trinity Sunday shows Christianity’s invitation to join the dance of life.
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.
Choice. In the end the market determines freedom in most cases. When a community devalues tradition, family and even faith, the underlying motivations for living a life or business that puts other people, employees or community above revenue crumbles. What is sacred other than self if you remove the sacred from day to day life and it’s practices?
Choice. In the end the market determines freedom in most cases. When a community devalues tradition, family and even faith, the underlying motivations for living a life or business that puts other people, employees or community above revenue crumbles. What is sacred other than self if you remove the sacred from day to day life and it’s practices?
Good point, Eric. If people flood the stores after they eat their turkey dinner, that’s sending a pretty strong consumer message.
I bet folks will if they run out of beer, wine or whipping cream for their pumpkin pies.