Let’s hear it for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. I’m not even remotely joking. Catholic bishops, both in the U.S. and abroad, have taken a justified beating in the press of late (including in this magazine) over their defensive and self-serving efforts to explain the Vatican hierarchy’s role in the sex-abuse crisis that […]
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Response to my April 12 article “A Woman’s Place Is in the Church” was overwhelming. Maureen Dowd cited it in her New York Times column. Sister Mary Ann Walsh, director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, critiqued it in an op-ed. But one of the questions most often asked in e-mails
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On April 22nd, 2010, Lisa appeared on “Interfaith Voices” with host Maureen Fiedler . You can hear the podcast on InterFaithRadio.org.
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On April 19th, 2010, This essay by Lisa, “In Search of Heaven,” appeared in the Huffington Post: Of course I believed in heaven as a child. Every weekend, driving up to our country house in Vermont, I’d gaze out the window from the backseat of the family car and see the shape of God
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On April 18, 2010, Lisa was interviewed for iVillage.com on the topic of “How Faith Affects Your Emotional Health.”
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On April 15th, 2010, Michael Orbach of the Jewish Star conducted a Q/A with Lisa: Michael Orbach: Do Americans believe in heaven? Lisa Miller: Emphatically yes. Eighty percent of Americans say they believe in heaven, up 10 percentage points from 1997. This is much different from Europe, where in some countries — France, Belgium, the
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On April 15nd, Lisa appeared on NPR station WETA’s “BookStudio,” a digital book program to discuss “Heaven.” http://www.thebookstudio.com/video
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Lisa visited the Simon and Schuster studios to discuss “Heaven” on the “Author’s Point of View” digital video series.
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On April 11th, 2010, Scott Russell Sanders reviewed “Heaven” in The Washington Post: “Everybody talking about heaven ain’t going there.” So runs the refrain of an African American spiritual, one source that Lisa Miller happens not to cite in her thorough survey of notions about the afterlife. The material she does reference covers a wide
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Maureen Dowd cited Lisa’s cover story in The New York Times: “To circumscribe women, Saudi Arabia took Islam’s moral codes and orthodoxy to extremes not outlined by Muhammad; the Catholic Church took its moral codes and orthodoxy to extremes not outlined by Jesus. In the New Testament, Jesus is surrounded by strong women and never
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