The big 4-0 is hard for a lot of people. For me, it’s because I’ve set expectations for myself that I haven’t met and that increasingly feel unachievable.

Jim Alma always liked the look of the lava rock chapel, but its sounds were what stuck with him – specifically, the ringing of the Fairmount Memorial Rock Chapel bells.

In my mid-20s, I joined an uncharitable Christian sect and became a spiritually uncharitable person.

When we can’t deal with our own inner contradictions, it’s easier to direct our shameful feelings into blaming others. Our attempts to shame someone, even ourselves, seem fair game when they/we mess up.

September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. As I reflect on this month’s theme, I cannot help but think about my experience overcoming suicidal ideation and how those three simple but powerful words saved my life.

A letter of thanks and recognition to the Jewish teachers and organizers trying to make the best of the High Holidays as the COVID-19 pandemic roars on. 

Great stories free us. Great stories move us to imagine beyond our petty self-preoccupations, beyond our living circumstances, beyond our destructive biases.

I like conflict about as much as I like this heat wave. I’ll do anything to avoid it.

A Spokane Valley youth pastor’s social media post went viral after he apologized for setting a rule at the summer camps he supervised that girls could only wear one-piece bathing suits.

Salem police arrested two men during a Tuesday evening protest in front of Planned Parenthood at 3825 Wolverine St. N.E.

Taylor Hall, an artist, activist and public speaker who assisted youth-driven activism against police brutality in her hometown of Indianapolis, will make an appearance at Spokane’s Bethel AME Church on Friday.

“Brush your teeth and say your prayers,” my father used to always say at bedtime when I was a child. I often pondered this, wondering what I was supposed to be praying to the Lord about and why.

Turbulent fire seasons are the result of drought conditions. We’re warned to be careful. But those warnings don’t prevent human-made fires even this early in the fire season in our region. I believe we’re also wallowing in a cultural drought our country hasn’t seen in many decades.

On an August day nine years ago, Sayed A. Hussaini was riding in a car from Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, to the province of Ghazni, when the driver crashed into another car – one driven by a member of the Taliban.

Negativity seeps in and makes itself at home in my psyche. I don’t realize it’s happening until it becomes palpable, until I sense a sinking, dark feeling in my chest.

The university is buying their first Torah for the small community of Jewish students, faculty and staff members led by Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein. 

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Saudi Arabia announced Saturday this year’s hajj pilgrimage will be limited to no more than 60,000 people, all of them from within the kingdom, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

CHICAGO – An activist Roman Catholic priest cleared by an Archdiocese of Chicago investigation into claims that he sexually abused several boys decades ago returned to the pulpit of his longtime church on Sunday for the first time in five months.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his pain over the discovery in Canada of the remains of 215 Indigenous students of church-run residential schools and pressed religious and political authorities to shed light on “this sad affair.” But he didn’t offer the apology sought by the Canadian prime minister.