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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

Meet the New LDS Face of Immigration Politics

Goodbye, Russell Pearce. Hello, Raul Labrador.
Joanna Brooks
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Religion Dispatches

Historic Prayer by Woman at LDS General Conference Signals Growing Concern with Gender Equality

“More progress in the last six months than in the last sixty years.”
Joanna Brooks
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Religion Dispatches

“Joseph Smith Himself Viewed Women as Priesthood Holders”

Mormon women organize for ordination.
Joanna Brooks
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