This has been a good year. In 2013 Spokane Faith & Values saw tremendous growth — more writers, traffic, dialogue, content, attention and a budding “community within a community,” as one reader put it.
About two years ago this site started with a handful of local bloggers, plus myself. Today we have nearly 50 writers of various faiths. We held Faith Feast: An Interfaith Progressive Dinner in April and we’ve had 12 amazing Coffee Talks. We also started having mixers this year, to keep the conversations moving.
We launched a series of interactive features where you can write in questions: Father Knows Best, Ask An Atheist, Ask a Mormon, Ask a Buddhist and Ask a Religious Scientist.
And, we were named one of the top online religion news sites in the country.
Not bad.
Below are our 20 most popular SpokaneFAVS articles from 2013:
- Devout Mormon suspended from college class for refusing to ‘stomp on Jesus’
- Hell on Wheels and its portrayals of Mormons
- Stop celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.
- Idaho-based company creates pork-infused bullets to defend against Islamic
- Mars Hill Church to open satellite campus in Spokane
- Miley Cyrus and America’s double standard
- How daddy lost his cool
- Father Knows Best: 8 thoughts after a suicide
- Best one-liners from a lunch with Bolz-Weber and Sara Miles
- An apology from a Christian
- Westboro Baptist Church announces plans to protest Foley’s memorial in Spokane
- Historic Church Project: Who cares about some dumb old church anyway
- It’s time to retire the “born this way” argument
- Local Episcopal priest steps into new role
- A lesson from a painful memory
- Ask A Mormon: What would you change about the Church?
- Bikini baristas and the legacy of shame behind the female body
- The hardest goodbye
- Orthodox community blesses Spokane River
- The failure of Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty and progressives in the debate on homosexuality
Thanks for your support, and Happy New Year!
