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Joanna Brooks

Joanna Brooks is an award-winning religion writer, co-editor of the just-released Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings (Oxford UP), and a senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches.

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Religion Dispatches

How Long Does It Take a Man of God to Admit Child Rape is Wrong?

Fifteen years, according to new evidence in Los Angeles Catholic abuse scandal.
Joanna Brooks
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Religion Dispatches

How Notre Dame Benefits from the Manti Te’o Girlfriend Hoax

It’s the perfect cover for Catholic institutional tolerance of sexual violence.
Joanna Brooks
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Religion Dispatches

Famous Mormon Fictionalizes Life Stories

This is not a story about Manti Te’o.
Joanna Brooks
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