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Some Catholics Say Benedict Needs to Do Penance Now

March 19, 2010 By Lisa Miller

I’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, and raped by priests who were supposed to protect them. Bishops and spokesmen denying or […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Lisa Miller

The White House Religion Panel Gets It Right

March 10, 2010 By Lisa Miller

There 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 administrative tag if ever there was one). This was a committee of about two dozen […]

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The Bishops, Abortion and Healthcare

March 4, 2010 By Lisa Miller

They 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 voices on a crucial political question: will abortion finally scuttle health-care reform? They are America’s […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Abortion, Healthcare, Lisa Miller, Roman Catholic bishops

Civility Won’t Fix Politics, but We Still Need It

February 24, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Civility isn’t a panacea for our woeful political culture, but at least it could stop the trash talking.

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

Analyzing Tiger Woods’ Return to Buddhism

February 20, 2010 By Lisa Miller

His return to Buddhism could be one more scripted PR stunt. Or, it could be the path to redemption.

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Facebook and Death: Virtual Grief

February 17, 2010 By Lisa Miller

The uses and abuses of virtual grief.

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Should Harvard Have A Religion Department?

February 11, 2010 By Lisa Miller

It doesn’t take a degree from Harvard to see that in today’s world, a person needs to know something about religion. The conflicts between the Israelis and the Palestinians; between Christians, Muslims, and animists in Africa; between religious conservatives and progressives at home over abortion and gay marriage—all these relate, if indirectly, to what rival […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek, Religion Tagged With: Abortion, Christians, Lisa Miller, Muslims

Stephanie Saldana’s Memoir Bread of Angels

February 9, 2010 By Lisa Miller

It is understandable to want to run screaming from a “spiritual memoir”—especially when you discover it’s been written by a 27-year-old. Memoirs are bad enough, with their cringe-making confessions, their sordid tale-telling, and their self-important self-examination. Why, the reader too often wonders, should we care about you? Spiritual memoirs frequently inhabit the lowest tier of […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Books, Newsweek, Religion Tagged With: Christians, Lisa Miller

The 2010 Super Bowl’s Pro-Life Ad

February 5, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Americans like values, but they don’t know which values they like best. The hype over Tim Tebow’s pro-life ad—sponsored by the conservative faith-and-values group Focus on the Family and scheduled to air during Sunday’s Super Bowl—is a case in point. When a corporation uses a television ad to sell us a product (car, gadget, hamburger) […]

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

Richard Cizik – an unrepentant former evangelical leader

January 28, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Redemption America’s evangelicals exiled their leader for insufficient orthodoxy. Now he’s back, and he’s unrepentant. Richard Cizik remembers it this way: he had just come home from a week in Australia and was about to jet off to Paris when he sat down on Dec. 2, 2008 for his post-election interview with NPR’s Terry Gross. […]

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