Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting. She is a Professor of Journalism at WSU and executive director at FaVS News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news in the Pacific Northwest.
Rejection cuts straight to my bones. Perhaps because it's a demon I've been fighting for decades. So when a letter arrived in the mail a few days ago discouraging me from submitting a full grant proposal to a major funder in the religion news space — the
Many years ago, my aunt gave me a book called "The Art of Doing Nothing." I want to tell you it changed my life — that I read it on a porch with a cup of tea and rediscovered the art of stillness. I never opened it. It'
We wanted our son to understand, from the beginning, that he is not the center of the world — he is part of it. That he is a steward, not an owner. We took him to Kamiak Butte to say so out loud. My wife and I have hiked Kamiak often
Ask most people what they know about religion in the Pacific Northwest and you'll get a shrug. Or a knowing smile. "Isn't that the none zone?" I've heard some version of this for the 14 years I've been running FāVS
I was raised in a faith community that believed homosexuals are equivalent to murderers. Some years after I came out, my mother sent me a letter and two UPS boxes containing everything from my childhood — baby photos, a stamp collection, matchbox cars — and told me we could no longer be
