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Tracy Simmons

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Scholarly Associate Prof @murrowcollege. Longtime religion reporter. Currently editor of @spokanefavs & writer for @covidreligion. #cycling addict!

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I'm a religion reporter and a digital entrepreneur. I combined the two and run one of the only hyperlocal digital startups focused on covering issues surrounding faith.

I also teach journalism and communications courses from time to time.

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Faith and Values: Relearning the whimsy of play and stepping away from adult responsibilities

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By Tracy Simmons
| The Spokesman-Review Verified
I’d forgotten how to play. I didn’t notice it until I had a kid. It’s not like one day I just packed up my board games or locked my toys away. Play just slipped out of my life gradually, and I was too busy to miss it. Play used to be my whole world. I grew up as an only child. With no siblings to build Legos or play “house” with, I made my own fun. I played Monopoly alone. I was the dog and the horse, rolling for both and buying property for both. (The dog usually won.
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Sarah Stankorb News | RNS

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By Tracy Simmons, Jana Riess
| Religion News Service Verified
Skip to content Mastodon "Damned If She Does: Why Women Quit Church and What It Means for the Future of Religion" by Sarah Stankorb. (Photo by Helen McCormick Photography) Opinion Most Popular Stories 1
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Faith and Values: Rejection is an old wound, asking to be healed

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By Tracy Simmons
| The Spokesman-Review Verified
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 reason being that we fall into “a very competitive funding environment” – it landed harder than it should have. That reaction isn’t really about a foundation, or even about my nonprofit religion newsroom: FāVS News. It’s older than both.
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