On contemporary Mormonism:

  • “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:

Media appearances:

  • “The Book of Mormon Girl,” Radio West with Doug Fabrizio (March 27, 2012).
  • “Mormonism in the 2012 Elections,” The Daily Circuit, Minnesota Public Radio (February 22, 2012).
  • “Joanna Brooks, Mormon Politico,” Nine to Noon, Radio New Zealand (February 21, 2012)
  • PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly (January 27, 2012).
  • “The Bob Wright Show:  Ask Mormon Girl,”  Blogginheads.tv (January 30, 2012)
  • “‘Ask Mormon Girl’ Discusses Mitt Romney’s Candidacy,” NPR All Things Considered (December 2, 2011).
  • “Mormon Demystified,” American Public Media’s On Being with Krista Tippet (October 20, 2011).
  • “Five Myths About Mormonism,” The Dave Glover Show, KFTK–St. Louis, Missouri (October 13, 2011).
  • “Five Myths About Mormonism,” WTVN–Columbus, Ohio (October 11, 2011)
  • “The Oft-Misunderstood Faith of Modern Mormons,” NPR Talk of the Nation (August 24, 2011).
  • “Five Myths About Mormonism,” BBC Americana (August 14, 2011).
  • “Mormons and the Republican party,” KNPR State of Nevada (June 15, 2011).
  • “The Year of the Mormon?:  Romney and the Book of Mormon Musical,” The Mitch Albom Show (June 13, 2011)
  • “Romney, Huntsman, and 2012,” on NPR-station KUER’s nationally syndicated Radio West (May 24, 2011)
  • “The Year of the Mormon?,” on nationally-syndicated public radio program Interfaith Voices (April 27, 2011)
  • “Sex and the Single Mormon,” on KNPR State of Nevada (February 25, 2011)
  • “Mormon Feminism Today,” on NPR-station KUER’s nationally syndicated Radio West (September 23, 2010)
  • “Glenn Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor,’” on NPR-station KUER’s nationally syndicated Radio West (August 31, 2010)
  • Coverage of the Our Voices, Our Visions tour on NPR’s KUER news (March 30, 2010)
  • Mormon Stories podcast panel discussion on Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God (March 6, 2010)
  • “How Mormonism Built Glenn Beck,” on nationally syndicated public-radio program Interfaith Voices (February 24, 2010)
  • “Who is Glenn Beck,” on NPR’s Radio West (February 8, 2010)
  • Profiled on the Mormon Stories podcast (January 20, 2010)

Lectures and Talks

  • “On the Underground:  What the Mormon Yes on 8 campaign reveals about the future of Mormons in American political life,” Mormonism and American Politics, Columbia University, February 2012.
  • God and Politics: Examining Religion in the 2012 Elections” Panel, Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C., January 2012.
  • “Visions of an Inclusive Mormonism,” Affirmation Conference, Kirtland, Ohio, September 2011.
  • “Mormon Identity in the 21st Century:  Claiming and Belonging,” Mormon Stories Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2011.
  • “Making Space for Compassion in a Conservative Religious Tradition:  Mormonism, LGBT Equality, and Digital Media,” Clark University “Difficult Dialogues” Series, April 2011.
  • “Mormon Dispatches:  New Media and Twenty-first Century Mormon Politics,” Claremont University Mormon Studies Association, April 2011.
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