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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Lisa Miller is a senior editor at Newsweek. She oversees all of the magazine’s religion coverage and writes the weekly “Belief Watch column. She also helped launch the Washington Post’s “OnFaith,” an online global conversation about religion and faith moderated by Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham and Washington Post writer Sally Quinn. She edited Newsweek’s “Spirituality
What is heaven? Eighty percent of Americans say they believe in heaven, yet very few of them can articulate anything specific about their belief. Numerous questions surrounding the concept of heaven have existed for ages, and Americans continue to grapple with these ideas. In her new book, Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife (Harper;