Joanna Brooks is a senior correspondent at the on-line magazine Religion Dispatches, where she writes two or three times each week about faith, culture and politics, as well as a frequent contributor to a variety of major newspapers and on-line publications.

Selected writing on contemporary faith and politics:

• “Hard Truths Matter: I’m Mormon and I’m Voting for Obama,” CNN.com (October 18, 2012).
• “This Week’s Presidential Debate:  Nothing Divine,” Huffington Post (October 4, 2012).
• “Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All.  One Last Time,” Religion Dispatches (September 10, 2012)
• “Does Mormonism Teach LDS People to Lie?,” Religion Dispatches (August 8, 2012).
• “A Mormon Girl Among Jews,” Tablet (August 8, 2012).
• “Anti-Mormon Prejudice vs. Racism: Can they be compared,” Religion Dispatches / Salon.com (July 29, 20120)
• “A Summer of LDS-LGBT Love?” Huffington Post (July 21, 2012).
• “Muslims and Mormons:  shared beliefs, shared struggles,” Common Ground News Service (reprints worldwide; July 10, 2012).
• “Mitt Romney, Mormon:  This I Know,” The Washington Post (June 14, 2012).
• “What Mormon Women Want,”  The Washington Post (May 30, 2012).
• “400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade” (June 4, 2012), Religion Dispatches.
• “From Murderous to ‘MORG’:  Mormonism Meets the Press” (May 22, 2012), Religion Dispatches.
• “Mormon Numbers Not Adding Up” (February 2, 2012), Religion Dispatches.
• “Time for Mormons to Come to Terms with Church History” (January 31, 2012), Religion Dispatches.
• “What 2012 Means to Mormons” (January 11, 2012), Washington Post “On Faith” blog.
• “Still Uncertain About Mormonism after 180 Years:  Why Voters Need Coverage of the Faith that Moves Beyond Sensationalism”  (December 5, 2011), The Huffington Post.
• “Five Myths About Mormonism” (August 5, 2011), The Washington Post; webchat (August 8, 2011)

• “How Mormon is Mitt Romney? Not Mormon Enough, says Florida pastor; plenty, say the rest of us” (September 13, 2011), Religion Dispatches
• “Openly Gay Mormon Appointed to Leadership Position,” (August 24, 2011) Religion Dispatches
• “Mormons, Romney Presidency ‘Dangerous,’ According to Evangelical Author” (May 27, 2011), Religion Dispatches
• “Mormon Leader:  ’I'm Sorry’ for Hurtful Legacy of Prop. 8″ (September 28, 2010), Religion Dispatches
• “Bringing the Hammer Down: Glenn Beck Doesn’t Speak for the Mormons I Know” (March 19, 2010), Huffington Post
• “When Mormons Mobilize: Anti-Gay Marriage Prop 8. Effort ‘Outed’?” (January 31, 2010), Religion Dispatches
• “Mormonism’s Black Issues” (October 25, 2009), Religion Dispatches
• “Mormonism and Glenn Beck’s Tears” (October 26, 2009), featured as “Idea of the Day,” New York Times
• “How Mormonism Built Glenn Beck” (October 7, 2009), Religion Dispatches; reprinted in Strange Brew, ed. Laura Flanders (O/R Books, 2010).
• Regular column / blog at Religiondispatches.org
• Regular column at Askmormongirl.com

On interfaith family life:

• “Praying Around: A Mormon-Jewish-Lutheran Mix,” (April 28, 2010), Patheos
• “Are Snowflakes Really Christian?” (December 4, 2009), Cheerio Road
• “There is No Such Thing as Half” (October 14, 2009), Killing the Buddha
• “Mormon Feminist on Yom Kippur” (September 28, 2009), Feminist Mormon Housewives