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BeliefWatch: Edutainment

June 4, 2007 By Lisa Miller

This summer, tourists who want attractions with a Christian flavor have at least two new options to choose from. The first, opening to the public June 5, is the Billy Graham Library, situated on 63 acres in Charlotte, N. C. For historians, the draw is the archives: the personal papers, drafts of sermons and correspondence […]

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BeliefWatch: Witness

May 28, 2007 By Lisa Miller

With a presidential candidate, a recent television special and 13 million adherents worldwide, the Mormons have gotten an extra dose of media attention lately. But there’s another indigenous American religion that is now making a bid for the spotlight. Formed in the 19th century, four decades after the Latter-day Saints, it, too, emphasizes a bizarre-seeming […]

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BeliefWatch: Entombed

May 21, 2007 By Lisa Miller

In interviews with NEWSWEEK in the days before the announcement of the “Jesus family tomb” (the suburban Jerusalem cave said to contain the bones of Jesus and his relatives, a claim that later turned out to be overblown), publishers and publicists worried aloud that the public might be suffering from what they called “ossuary fatigue.” […]

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A Portrait of Faith

May 21, 2007 By Lisa Miller

Who was Jesus, really? It has become acceptable, even fashionable, lately to speak of the Christian Lord in casual terms, as though he were an acquaintance with a mysterious past. Pope Benedict’s trip to Brazil last week revived an old retelling of the Christian story in which Jesus is cast as a social revolutionary determined […]

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BeliefWatch: Taxi!

May 14, 2007 By Lisa Miller

Who are you for? The cabbies or the airport commission? In Minneapolis, that most open-minded of American cities, the debate has gotten vicious. This week the airport will begin imposing strict sanctions on cabdrivers who refuse to pick up passengers carrying alcohol. After two offenses, a driver can have his license

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Chaplains: The Calm in the Chaos

May 7, 2007 By Lisa Miller

During his tour in Vietnam, Angelo Charles Liteky, a Roman Catholic chaplain, often traveled with the forward line because he thought it was important to know what the boys out front were feeling. That way, when they broke down, he would be better able to persuade them to soldier on. On Dec. 6, 1967, Liteky […]

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BeliefWatch: First Cut

May 7, 2007 By Lisa Miller

Poor “Misha.” Caught in a terrible custody war, this 12-year-old boy from Washington state has become a cause c

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BeliefWatch: God Is Green

April 30, 2007 By Lisa Miller

Have you ever stopped to consider how much it costs to heat

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BeliefWatch: Sweet Jesus

April 16, 2007 By Lisa Miller

Last Monday, as Christians around the globe prepared for Holy Week and Easter, the Italian-American artist Cosimo Cavallaro was leading a car chase through the streets of New York City. With reporters trailing close behind, Cavallaro drove a refrigerated truck through narrow, clogged streets until he finally lost his pursuers and came to rest at […]

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BeliefWatch: Marriage

April 9, 2007 By Lisa Miller

Unlike Judaism, Islam is passed down through the father. The Qur’an even grants a Muslim man permission to marry a Jewish or Christian woman, so long as she is chaste. “A believing maid is better than an idolatrous woman,” the holy text says. Thus it was for centuries: Muslim men married other women of the […]

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About Lisa Miller

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Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife."

In 2014, Lisa Miller was nominated for the National Magazine Award and featured in Best Magazine Writing of 2014.

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