This week on Inland Journal:
Aaron Hedge from Range Media stops by to tell us more about Zeal Church, a branch of a megachurch from Texas that now has a presence in downtown Spokane. Zeal declined to extend a lease for a downtown ministry that caters to people who are hungry.
"I think there was some tension between the ministries. They all report that they respect and like each other as people, but they just were not compatible.
So Zeal Church came in, and it's a very different organization. Zeal Church is not a queer-affirming church. They're pretty conservative. They have a lot of the hallmarks of this movement of charismatic evangelical churches called the New Apostolic Reformation."
Americans have seen video footage of protests and violence in Paris and other European cities. We talk today with Ella Scholz Bertram, a Washington state woman teaching English in France, about the protests and the French education system in general.
"One of the first questions they had for me was, are you going to be participating in the protest on Saturday? And so I asked them, well, what is it really about? What are you guys protesting for in your own words? And that one specifically was for the gas prices. I think for students that age and older, it's especially important because that's when they're starting to drive. But I think it's a wide range of things, but just overall them being discontent."
And we’ll talk with Lunell Haught from the League of Women Voters about the organization’s long history in Washington promoting civic education and citizen advocacy.
"You'll see us in the schools helping students register to vote. We just registered and did civics classes for 900 students last May. So that's the kind of thing that we do in the education arm. We also show up at lots of local fairs and outdoor events, as well as indoor events, where we're helping people understand how to vote, because not everybody knows lots of little details like the signature changes throughout your life."
