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'''Richard Ostling''' is an American [[author]] and [[journalist]] living in [[Ridgewood, New Jersey]].<ref name="PBS">▼
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{{Cite web | title = Online News Hour: Richard Ostling | publisher = [[Public Broadcasting Service]] | url = https://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/background/ostling_bio.html | accessdate = 2008-02-20}}</ref> He and his wife, the late '''Joan K. Ostling''', are the co-authors of ''Mormon America: The Power and the Promise'' (1999; revised ed. 2007).<ref name="Swenson">{{cite journal | last1 = Swenson | first1 = Raymond Takashi | year = 2001 | title = Faith without Caricature? | journal = FARMS Review | volume = 13 | issue = 2 | pages = 65–77 | publisher = Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religions Scholarship | location = Provo, Utah | accessdate = June 1, 2012 | url = http://mi.byu.edu/publications/review/?vol=13&num=2&id=389 | postscript = , A review of "Mormon America: The Power and the Promise" by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling }}</ref>▼
 
▲'''Richard Ostling''' is an American [[author]] and [[journalist]] living in [[Ridgewood, New Jersey]].<ref name="PBS">
▲{{Cite web | title = Online News Hour: Richard Ostling | publisher = [[Public Broadcasting Service]] | url = https://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/background/ostling_bio.html | accessdateaccess-date = 2008-02-February 20, 2008}}</ref> He and his wife, the late '''Joan K. Ostling''', are the co-authors of ''Mormon America: The Power and the Promise'' (1999; revised ed. 2007).<ref name="Swenson">{{cite journal | last1 = Swenson | first1 = Raymond Takashi | year = 2001 | title = Faith without Caricature? | journal = FARMS Review | volume = 13 | issue = 2 | pages = 65–77 | publisher = Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religions Scholarship | location = Provo, Utah | accessdateaccess-date = June 1, 2012 | url = http://mi.byu.edu/publications/review/?vol=13&num=2&id=389 | postscript = , A review of "Mormon America: The Power and the Promise" by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling }}</ref>
 
==Richard Ostling==
'''Richard N. Ostling''' (born {{BirthJuly date14, and age|1940|07|14}}, in [[Endicott, NYNew York]].<ref name="PBS"/>) is a [[journalist]] who reports on [[religion|religious]] topics. He iswas a senior correspondent for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''<ref name="PBS"/> and the president of the [[Religion Newswriters Association]].<ref name="PBS"/> Once a senior editor of ''[[The Michigan Daily]]'', he graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa]] from the [[University of Michigan]] and holds master's degrees in journalism ([[Northwestern University]]) and religion ([[George Washington University]]) along with an honorary Litt.D.[[Doctor of Letters]] degree from [[Gordon College (Massachusetts)|Gordon College]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}} He is listed in Who's Who in America.
He has conducted religious interviews on at least four [[continents]].
 
Richard Ostling previously reported for the ''[[The News Journal|Morning News and Evening Journal]]'' and ''[[Christianity Today]]''<ref name="PBS"/> as well as once being the chief religion writer for the [[Associated Press]], where he spent eight years.<ref name="WJI">{{cite web |url=http://www.worldji.com/people/view/198 |title=Richard Ostling - Biography |work=World Journalism Institute |accessdateaccess-date=June 13, 2015}}</ref>
 
In over 27 years at ''Time,'' , he has written a number of cover stories. He has broadcast on [[CBS Radio]]. He has reported regularly for [[The NewsHour]] with [[Jim Lehrer]].<ref name="PBS"/> 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 [[Pope Benedict XVI|Joseph Ratzinger]] (later [[Pope Benedict XVI]]).<ref name="WJI"/> He authored many of the ''Time'' magazine stories on the rise of [[fundamentalist Christianity]], including cover stories on [[Jerry Falwell]], [[Pat Robertson]], [[Jim Bakker]], and [[Jimmy Swaggart]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,963918,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022220422/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,963918,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 22, 2010|title=A Letter From the Publisher: Apr. 6, 1987|date=6 April 6, 1987|work=TIME.com[[Time (magazine)|accessdateTime]]|access-date=13 June 13, 2015|first=Robert L.|last=Miller}}</ref> Ostling was the co-author, with Dr. [[Bernard Nathanson]], of ''Aborting America,: aA historyHistory of the abortionAbortion rightsRights movementMovement in the United States''.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zPWRAAAAIAAJ |title=Aborting America, Issue 275 |author1=Bernard N. Nathanson |author2=Richard N. Ostling |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |year=1979 |isbn=978-0385144612 }}</ref>
 
Richard Ostling and his wife had two children, Margaret and Elizabeth.<ref name="PBS"/>
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}} {{Dead link|date=May 2010}}</ref> A review in the ''[[The New York Times]]'' called ''Mormon America: The Power and the Promise'' "eminently fair, well researched and exhaustive."<ref name=Egan>{{cite journalnews|last=Egan|first=Timothy|title=Theocracy in the Desert|journal=The New York Times|date=January 9, 2000|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/09/reviews/000109.09egant.html|accessdateaccess-date=13 February 13, 2013}}</ref> "His distinctions include a [[Pulitzer Prize]] nomination; the American Academy of Religion, Supple and Templeton prizes; and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Religion Newswriters Association."<ref name="WJI"/>▼
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▲ }} {{Dead link|date=May 2010}}</ref> A review in the ''[[New York Times]]'' called ''Mormon America: The Power and the Promise'' "eminently fair, well researched and exhaustive."<ref name=Egan>{{cite journal|last=Egan|first=Timothy|title=Theocracy in the Desert|journal=New York Times|date=January 9, 2000|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/09/reviews/000109.09egant.html|accessdate=13 February 2013}}</ref> "His distinctions include a Pulitzer Prize nomination; the American Academy of Religion, Supple and Templeton prizes; and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Religion Newswriters Association."<ref name="WJI"/>
 
==Joan Ostling==
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| date = March 6, 2000 | publisher = Christianity Today: A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction
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}}</ref> She also co-authored a comprehensive bibliography of books by and about [[C. &nbsp;S. Lewis]]. Joan Ostling earned master's degrees in English and political science, and was a writer and editor for the [[U.S.US Information Agency]] in [[Washington, D.C.DC]].<ref name="Swenson"/><ref name="IRR">{{cite web | url = http://www.irr.org/mit/mormon-america-br.html | title = Graceful Disclosure: Pulling Back the Mormon PR Curtain, A Review of ''Mormon America: The Power and the Promise'' | last1 = Groat | first1 = Joel B. | publisher = Institute for Religious Research | accessdate access-date= June 1, 2012 | postscript year= , A Review of '' Mormon America: The Power and the Promise.'' Harper San Francisco, 1999, 454 pages, {{ISBN|0-06-066372-3}} (paperback). | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120520135009/http://irr.org/mit/mormon-america-br.html | archive-date = May 20, 2012 | deadurl-url status= yes | df = mdy-alldead }}</ref>▼
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▲}}</ref> She also co-authored a comprehensive bibliography of books by and about [[C. S. Lewis]]. Joan Ostling earned master's degrees in English and political science, and was a writer and editor for the [[U.S. Information Agency]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="Swenson"/><ref name="IRR">{{cite web | url = http://www.irr.org/mit/mormon-america-br.html | title = Graceful Disclosure: Pulling Back the Mormon PR Curtain | last1 = Groat | first1 = Joel B. | publisher = Institute for Religious Research | accessdate = June 1, 2012 | postscript = , A Review of '' Mormon America: The Power and the Promise.'' Harper San Francisco, 1999, 454 pages, {{ISBN|0-06-066372-3}} (paperback). | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120520135009/http://irr.org/mit/mormon-america-br.html | archive-date = May 20, 2012 | dead-url = yes | df = mdy-all }}</ref>
 
Joan Ostling died of [[breast cancer]] on January 11, 2009 at her home in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
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==External links==
* [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionqanda/ Religion Q & A], Richard Ostlings blog at [[Patheos]]
* {{imdb name|2764340|Richard Ostling}}
* [http://farms.byu.edu/publications/review/?vol=13&num=2&id=389 Faith without Caricature], a critique by a Mormon reviewer, Raymond Takashi Swenson
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