Religion

As I look at the overwhelming number of political/religious issues in play during this 2022 election season, I hear some dog whistles and I hear some dog sirens. To my ears, they’re all disgusting and disturbing. They signal to me that our American democracy is in trouble.

A sad memory recently came to mind. Shortly after the interstate was built in the Silver Valley in the early 1960s, a well-known woman from Kellogg was killed in a head-on collision after she got onto the freeway going the wrong way.

The 86th annual Greek Food Festival returns courtesy of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. It's the first Greek food fest to include dine-in since 2019.

I’ve always been hypersensitive to people turning away from me and couldn’t bear the thought of her potential rejection. It seemed safer living in the unknown. If she didn’t know about my feelings, our friendship wouldn’t be compromised, and we could keep spending time together.

A 23-year-old man pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court to “maliciously damaging” the St. Charles Catholic School in Spokane last year by setting fire to the building.

A group of agitated citizens, many of them professing to be Christians, are determined to force the library to get rid of up to 400 pornographic books from their shelves. But none of those books are in that library!

Long before homelessness became an ever-present topic at City Council meetings, long before newer nonprofits began advocating for a solution, John Murinko walked among the broken and the hurting on the streets of Spokane.

Two Spokane men are suing a South Hill Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation claiming a leader of the church sexually abused the men while they were boys in the 1970s.

For most of my life I’ve misunderstood failure. I thought it was something negative and refused to accept it.

It is with some trepidation that I take on the ‘freedom of will” topic. I have little to no understanding of the philosophical ruminations on this old chestnut. I almost flunked my "Intro to Philosophy" course.

Generally, because I trust TSA has reasons for their security measures, I feel safe flying on a plane. I don’t feel safe, though, being in large crowds or anywhere else where an unhinged shooter can open fire with an assault rifle and kill or maim dozens of people.

The Oaks Classical Christian Academy hopes a new, 42,000-square-foot building will be open in September 2023 after breaking ground last month.

Kathy Lee is finally free, but she’s also sad.

In “Torn: Married to a White Supremacist,” Chris Eddy writes about how her husband moved their family from California to North Idaho and eventually became the spokesperson for Richard Butler’s neo-Nazi church. She writes about how her Catholic faith kept her loyal to her husband, and how she was able to separate the man she loved from his beliefs, which she despised.

"We weren't doing it to try to convert any players to Christianity," said Matt Miethe, who in 2013 was the head football coach at Rogers High School and now serves as the team's offensive coordinator. 

White Christian nationalism, in some form, is likely older than our country. Yet it's taken less obvious, but still dangerous, forms over our 245-year history.