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America – National Catholic Weekly Interviews Lisa
On March 15th, Lisa appeared on America Magazine’s podcast hosted by Kerry Weber.
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The Washington Post’s Sally Quinn Interviews Lisa
On March 22nd, 2010, Sally Quinn interviewed Lisa for the The Washington Post in a video called “Divine Impulses: Newsweek religion editor Lisa Miller on the decline of hell.” Miller talks about the “paradox” of heaven and the myths and truths behind claims of “72 virgins” for Muslim holy warriors.
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Huffington Post’s Rabbi David Wolpe on “Heaven”
Mark Twain quipped that people assume heaven will be green fields and harp music — an eternity of activities no one would enjoy for five minutes while still alive. Here is a central dilemma of our preoccupation with heaven. Our imaginations are limited by our experience. When we read fantasy, or science fiction, it is
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Some Catholics Say Benedict Needs to Do Penance Now
I’m not sure I can take it anymore, my Catholic friend K. wrote to me in an e-mail. Maybe I should become an Episcopalian. Fury does not begin to describe her mood. More than 10,000 children in Europe smacked, tortured, and raped by priests who were supposed to protect them. Bishops and spokesmen denying or
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Entertainment Weekly’s Tina Jordan Gives “Heaven” an A-
In her brainy, engaging book Heaven — a sweeping historical and literary geography of heaven — she talks to priests, a Dominican monk, Muslim clerics, rabbis, and professors (and even visits a psychic, who channels a balding Ed Asner look-alike — no one she knows, though she racks her brain). She doesn’t ignore pop culture,
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Library Journal’s Eric Norton on “Heaven”
Miller (religion editor, Newsweek) offers a sample of the myriad views of heaven held by Americans today, as well as surveying the inspiration for those views, from both the Abrahamic traditions and contemporary culture. She casts a wide net for her interview subjects, including Mormons, Lubavitcher Jews, Swedenborgians, and a Catholic lay hermit, along with
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