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 […]
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Reviews of HeavenI’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,
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekIn 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
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Reviews of HeavenMiller (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
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Reviews of HeavenThere has been some bellyaching in recent months—including by me, and also especially in The Washington Post—over the relevance and influence of the task force of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships (a god-awful mouthful of an
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekThey see themselves as crusaders for human rights—protectors of the innocent, the voiceless, and the powerless. After years of enduring the slings and arrows of opposition, these activists are finally in the power seat. They are among the most important
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekJoin Lisa at the Park Slope Barnes and Noble on Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Tuesday April 06, 2010 7:30 PM Barnes and Noble 267 7th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215 718-832-9066
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