Joshua J. McElwee is an NCR staff writer whose reporting and feature writing have earned several awards [1] from the Catholic Press Association and have been featured in The Huffington Post, The Irish Catholic, and other outlets.

He was also a finalist for the Religion Newswriters Association's award for Magazine News Religion Reporter of the Year in 2012 [2]. Among international assignments, he has reported for NCR from Kenya, Japan, and the Vatican.

A graduate of The Catholic University of America, he is also a member of the Holy Family Catholic Worker community in Kansas City, Mo.

His e-mail address is jmcelwee@ncronline.org. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/joshjmac [3].