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Does the BP Oil Spill Herald the Apocalypse?

June 4, 2010 By Lisa Miller

A growing conversation among Christian fundamentalists asks the question that may have been inevitable: is the oil spill in the gulf a sign of the coming apocalypse? About 60 million white evangelicals live in America, and about one third of them believe that the world will end in their lifetime, according to the Pew Research […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: apocalypse, Book of Revelation, BP oil spill, Christian fundamentalists, Christians, dispensationalism, evangelicals, heaven, Lisa Miller, millerites, Pew Research Center, theology, William Miller

The Catholic Church Attacks Nuns

May 27, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Earlier this month, in something of a surprise, a nun at a Catholic hospital in Phoenix was excommunicated for approving a first-trimester abortion last year at that hospital to save the life of a critically ill patient. “An unborn child is not a disease,” said Bishop Thomas Olmsted of the Phoenix diocese. “While medical professionals […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Abortion, Bishop Thomas Olmsted, first trimester abortion, Lisa Miller, orthodox theology, phoenix diocese, religious sisters, second Vatican council, theology, Vatican, Vatican II

Catholic Bishops Get It Right on Immigration

April 29, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Let’s hear it for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. I’m not even remotely joking. Catholic bishops, both in the U.S. and abroad, have taken a justified beating in the press of late (including in this magazine) over their defensive and self-serving efforts to explain the Vatican hierarchy’s role in the sex-abuse crisis that […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Arizona, Cardinal Rogers Mahony, Conference of Catholic Bishops, immigration, Jan Brewer, Lisa Miller, S.B. 1070, Vatican

The Vanishing Role of Women in Church Readings

April 28, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Response to my April 12 article “A Woman’s Place Is in the Church” was overwhelming. Maureen Dowd cited it in her New York Times column. Sister Mary Ann Walsh, director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, critiqued it in an op-ed. But one of the questions most often asked in e-mails […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Bible, Bible Stories, Conference of Catholic Bishops, lectionary, Lisa Miller, liturgy, Mary Ann Walsh, Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Ruth Fox, Sister Mary, U.S. Conference of Bishops

The Troubled Future of Catholic Celibacy

April 8, 2010 By Lisa Miller

In 1998 a Roman Catholic nun named Marie McDonald wrote a brief and painful summary of her concerns to her colleagues and superiors. It was labeled “strictly confidential.” She was worried, she said, about the sexual abuse of nuns by Roman Catholic priests in Africa. The memo—titled “The Problem of the Sexual Abuse of African […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Joaquin Navarro Valls, Lisa Miller, Marie McDonald, National Catholic Reporter, Roman Catholic priests, Vatican

A Women’s Place is in the Church

April 3, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Here they are, the members of history’s oldest and most elite all-male club, trying to manage what began as a domestic crisis. For decades, priests in America, Europe, Ireland, Brazil (and God knows where else) abused—raped or otherwise molested—children and teenagers not in the frescoed halls of the Vatican but in their own backyards: on […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Lisa Miller, Vatican

Can Science Explain Heaven?

March 26, 2010 By Lisa Miller

There are those who believe that science will eventually explain everything—including our enduring belief in heaven. The thesis here is very simple: heaven is not a real place, or even a process or a supernatural event. It’s something that happens in your brain as you die. I first encountered this idea as I was researching […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek, Religion Tagged With: heaven, Lisa Miller

Is Pope Benedict XVI a Bad Shepherd?

March 26, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Two years ago Pope Benedict XVI—once known as “God’s Rottweiler”—displayed his gentler side on a pilgrimage to America. Television pundits spoke of his soft white hair, his smile, “his great warmth and his sense of humor,” says Thomas Noble, head of the history department at Notre Dame. On the trip Benedict confronted head-on the American […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Bernie McDaid, Lisa Miller, Notre Dame, Pope Benedict XVI, Thomas Noble

Excerpt from “Heaven”

March 25, 2010 By Lisa Miller

It’s Easter—that most pleasant of springtime holidays—when children stuff themselves with marshmallows and stain their fingers with pastel dyes. In reality, of course, Easter is about something darker and more fantastic. It’s a celebration of the final act of the Passion, in which Jesus rose from his tomb in his body three days after his […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Christians, heaven, Lisa Miller, quran

America – National Catholic Weekly’s Interviews Lisa

March 22, 2010 By Lisa Miller

On March 15th, Lisa appeared on America Magazine’s podcast hosted by Kerry Weber. You can play the podcast using the player below, or download the mp3 file. local mirror of this podcast

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Lisa Miller

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About Lisa Miller

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Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife."

In 2014, Lisa Miller was nominated for the National Magazine Award and featured in Best Magazine Writing of 2014.

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