When George W. Bush became president in 2000, he brought with him a kind of “hey, guy” Christianity that had been quietly booming in megachurches throughout the land. It was neither the formal Episcopal worship of his youth nor the […]
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Books, NewsweekIt was, perhaps, an ill-kept secret. as Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair was officially an Anglican. Unofficially, though, he was a practicing Roman Catholic. “My wife’s Catholic, my kids are brought up as Catholics, I’ve been going to mass
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekLet’s try for a minute to take the religious conservatives at their word and define marriage as the Bible does. Shall we look to Abraham, the great patriarch, who slept with his servant when he discovered his beloved wife Sarah
Before the election I wrote a piece for NEWSWEEK.com about white evangelicals and abortion. In that piece, I predicted that conservative Christians would not move in large numbers away from the Republican Party because of their fundamental theological and cultural
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekOn Nov. 5, Todd Strandberg was at his desk, fielding E-mails from around the world. As the editor and founder of RaptureReady.com, his job is to track current events and link them to biblical prophecy in hopes of maintaining his
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekVIDEO: Newsweek’s religion editor discusses how she got her start in the field
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VideoVIDEO: Reverend James Forbes is asked about “The Bible’s Buried Secrets” by Lisa Miller, the Religion Editor of Newsweek magazine. This clip took place on 11/13 in NYC at the event “Science and Faith : Complementary or Contradictory?” Reverend James
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Newsweek, VideoJust as “race” has a whole new meaning in America this week, so, too, does “faith.” For at least four decades, white evangelicals have been the religion-and-politics story in this country. Their power, their rhetoric, their numbers, their theology
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekIt’s abortion, stupid. For conservative Christians in this election the most important religious issue isn’t gay marriage, stem-cell research or Christmas trees on courthouse lawns. It is abortion (as it has been for at least the past 35 years, since
The video clip is from 2005, and Sarah Palin, who is running for governor, stands on the dais of a small church; three pastors surround her in a huddle. They are touching her shoulders, her forehead, her back. The would-be