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Joanna Brooks

Joanna Brooks
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Joanna Brooks

Joanna Brooks is a national voice on Mormon life and politics, an award-winning scholar of religion and American culture, and the author or editor of five books. She has been featured on American Public Media’s On Being; NPR’s All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation; BBC’s Americana, Interfaith Voices, and Radio West; and in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the CNN Belief Blog, and the Huffington Post. She is senior correspondent for the online magazine ReligionDispatches.org and offers answers to seekers of all stripes at her own site AskMormonGirl.com. Follow @askmormongirl on Twitter, or visit her at JoannaBrooks.org.

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The Book of Mormon Girl will be released on August 07, 2012 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Aug 07, 2012
The Book of Mormon Girl is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
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Mother Jones, December 22, 2012
...press, or at least loves to hate on the press. —Kate Sheppard, reporter Book of Mormon Girl, by Joanna Brooks. Brooks, who was brought up in a strict Mormon household in California, tells of how she left the faith and then eventually found her way...
Mother Jones, December 22, 2012
...press, or at least loves to hate on the press. —Kate Sheppard, reporter Book of Mormon Girl, by Joanna Brooks. Brooks, who was brought up in a strict Mormon household in California, tells of how she left the faith and then eventually found her way...
Salt Lake Tribune, November 13, 2012
...DESERET NEWS OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES Published on Nov 13, 2012 10:38AM Author Joanna Brooks, aka "Mormon Girl," does not mince words about her assessment of thwarted Republican congressional candidate Mia Love. "Did America Just Dodge...
Fox13now, November 6, 2012
...on the Family,” which is often framed and displayed in homes — though rarely in upper-class households, said Joanna Brooks, author of “The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith.” The proclamation features words set forth by LDS...
CNN, November 3, 2012
...on the Family ,” which is often framed and displayed in homes – though rarely in upper-class households, said Joanna Brooks , author of  “The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith.” The proclamation features words set forth by...
Christian Century, October 25, 2012
...the same letter of the alphabet and being inscrutable to outsiders, the groups are quite different. After reading Joanna Brooks’s memoir The Book of Mormon Girl, I will no longer answer with such alacrity. It is true that few threads connect Joseph...
Plymouth Evening Herald, May 23, 2013
...is someone else waiting in the car outside ready to nip in and offer the vendor more money." Joanna Brooks of the Luscombe Maye Yealmpton office agreed. "If there is a ripple effect with price increases rolling out from London it has yet to hit the...
This is Devon, May 23, 2013
...is someone else waiting in the car outside ready to nip in and offer the vendor more money." Joanna Brooks of the Luscombe Maye Yealmpton office agreed. "If there is a ripple effect with price increases rolling out from London it has yet to hit the...
Delaware Online, May 18, 2013
...more because the church saw room for expansion. More than a third of the new missionaries are women. Joanna Brooks, Mormon blogger and author of "The Book of Mormon Girl," said that will change the brand of their church. "For more than 50 years, the...
Stevens Point Journal, May 18, 2013
...more because the church saw room for expansion. More than a third of the new missionaries are women. Joanna Brooks, Mormon blogger and author of "The Book of Mormon Girl," said that will change the brand of their church. "For more than 50 years, the...
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, May 18, 2013
...more because the church saw room for expansion. More than a third of the new missionaries are women. Joanna Brooks, Mormon blogger and author of "The Book of Mormon Girl," said that will change the brand of their church. "For more than 50 years, the...
Mansfield News Journal, May 18, 2013
...more because the church saw room for expansion. More than a third of the new missionaries are women. Joanna Brooks, Mormon blogger and author of "The Book of Mormon Girl," said that will change the brand of their church. "For more than 50 years, the...
Reporter, May 18, 2013
...more because the church saw room for expansion. More than a third of the new missionaries are women. Joanna Brooks, Mormon blogger and author of "The Book of Mormon Girl," said that will change the brand of their church. "For more than 50 years, the...