Richard Ostling previously reported for the Morning News and Evening Journal and Christianity Today[1] as well as once being the chief religion writer for the Associated Press, where he spent eight years.
[1] Over the course of his career, he has interviewed several notable religious figures such as Billy Graham, the Dalai Lama, the late Mother Teresa and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI).
[1] The Center for Religious Inquiry has called Richard Ostling "one of the most distinguished and honored writers on religion in America.
"[6] A review in The New York Times called Mormon America: The Power and the Promise "eminently fair, well researched and exhaustive.
Joan Ostling earned master's degrees in English and political science and was a writer and editor for the US Information Agency in Washington, DC.