Career
He has written essays and opinion columns for United States of America Today, The New York Times Sunday Opinion Page, and the religion pages of The Washington Post and Cable News Network. In 2004, he joined The Scottsdale Times as a staff writer and later became features editors While at The Scottsdale Times, his reporting earned honors from the Arizona Press Club. The Arizona Newspaper Association named him non-daily "Journalist of the Year" in 2007.
He then took a staff writer position at the Phoenix New Times, an alternative weekly owned by Village Voice Media.
Three of his stories are printed in the book anthology Best AltWeekly Writing 2009 and 2010, published by Northwestern University Press. Dickerson eventually left Phoenix New Times to pastor Cornerstone Church in Prescott, Arizona.
Ken Auletta, media critic for The New Yorker, endorsed the book: “A first rate journalist and writer, Dickerson writes with empathy, preferring to explain rather than scold. He’s written an illustrious book”.
