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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

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Faith and Values: Faith communities don’t wait to show support for marginalized groups. They’re already doing it.

I have spent more than 20 years covering religion in the Inland Northwest, and recently I had the chance to share what I’ve learned as a guest preacher at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse in Moscow, Idaho. What I told that congregation is something the news cycle rarely makes room for: Faith communities are not waiting for permission to work for love and justice. They are already doing it. I see it every week from my desk at FāVS News.
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Faith and Values: Added family security a necessity with today’s political discourse

There is a Buddhist practice I used to struggle with: the instruction to look at every person as if they were once your mother – someone who, in another life, cared for you completely, asking nothing in return. I couldn’t get there. My own mother chose her religion over me. The idea of universal maternal love felt like a cruelty. Then Stanley arrived, and I finally understood it from the other side.