Julia Duin is a Seattle-based journalist who was Newsweek’s contributing editor for religion for the past 18 months. She was an assistant national editor and religion editor for the Washington Times for more than 14 years and also worked stints at the Houston Chronicle and several other newspapers. During the 2014-2015 academic year, she occupied the Snedden Chair as a journalism professor at the University of Alaska/Fairbanks, after which she joined the Washington Post Talent Network as contributing writer for travel, religion and general features. She specializes in interesting women in religion.