Kellie Kotraba is the editor of ColumbiaFAVS.com. Prior to joining the FAVS team in June 2012, she covered Columbia for the Columbia Missourian and KBIA 91.3 FM, the local NPR affiliate. She was also an assistant editor at the Missourian. She holds an M.A. from the University of Missouri School of Journalism; she wrote her thesis on how religion is covered in community newspapers, specifically online. She holds a B.A. in English from Concordia University Irvine.
(RNS) Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America.” A lot’s changed since then, fueled by the church’s role in Prop 8 and its efforts to build bridges to gays and lesbians.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (RNS) Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson has apologized for comments he made about Wiccans, saying he “should have left them alone.”
COLUMBIA, Mo. (RNS) Evangelical theologian David Lamb tackles some of the Bible’s most troubling passages in his book, “God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?” His answer: yes and no.
AVA, Mo. (RNS) Some monasteries make jelly, creamed honey, even world-class beer. For the last 25 years, the Trappist monks of Assumption Abbey here in the foothills of the Ozarks have made fruitcake. By Kellie Kotraba.
