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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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Boy Scout “Perversion Files” Raise Questions about Abuse in Mormon Contexts

34% of BSA troops nationwide are LDS-sponsored.
Joanna Brooks
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The Mormon Girl’s Guide to Equal Opportunity in the Workplace

Ladies, start your binders.
Joanna Brooks
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Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By tracking the way Jesus Christ has been rendered through the American racial imagination—actually lining up all the evidence, from Puritan witch trial transcripts through stained glass windows through contemporary movies—Paul and Ed give us a new place to start a national discussion about who owns the image of God. That discussion has been going on, as The Color of Christ demonstrates, in communities of color since the early nineteenth century, if not before.
Joanna Brooks
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