Former youth pastor Derek Nelson, who was fired from the Renton-area church in 2020 over separate sexual misconduct allegations involving adults, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
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VIDEO! Pop up Coffee Talk: Roe v Wade & Scotus – How my Faith Tells me to Respond
When The Supreme Court overturned Roe V Wade in May, a flood of columns were submitted by FāVS columnists. Reactions were strong.
How should we, as a community, respond to the Supreme Court’s actions?
At this pop up Coffee Talk an interfaith panel discussed how their faith is guiding them on this issue.
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.
