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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekThere’s always strange stuff for sale on eBay
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekOn paper, Mitt Romney was an excellent candidate for the Republican nomination for president. Handsome, professionally successful, personally wealthy, happily married and with a blemish-free past, Romney looked like a pretty good bet. He was pitching himself as a conservative’s
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekReincarnation, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is “rebirth in new bodies or forms of life; especially: a rebirth of a soul in a new human body.” This ancient belief, a core belief of more than 800 million Hindus, has been
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekIn the 20th Century no group was better at chronicling its own experience than the American Jews. You want self-loathing, assimilation and paranoia? Turn to Philip Roth. You want bright young women resisting and yet conforming to family expectations? Check
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekYou might think of 2007 as the year the atheists won. They didn’t succeed in converting the 86 percent of Americans who say they believe in God into nonbelievers
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekYou need only go back to the first chapter of Genesis to see how elemental water is to the observance of faith: “And the Spirit of God,” the Bible says, “moved upon the face of the waters.” In the Torah,
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekYou might think of this week as Kay Warren’s coming-out party. Her husband, Rick, who is perhaps the most celebrated evangelical pastor in the world under the age of 60, has long said that his commitment to solving the international
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekRick Warren, the influential pastor of the Saddleback megachurch in Orange County, Calif., invited eight presidential candidates to speak at his third annual “Global Summit on AIDS and the Church,” but only Hillary Clinton came. (Five other candidates made appearances
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ReligionRudy Giuliani has a Catholic problem and it’s not, strangely enough, that he was raised as a Roman Catholic, considered becoming a priest, then dumped his second of three wives on television and has been photographed in a dress. Rudy’s
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekOver the past three years, Sen. John Kerry has had a lot of time to think about his God, and at a meeting with journalists in Washington earlier this month he shared those thoughts. He grew up in a Roman
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