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Rick Santorum’s religious time machine

March 15, 2012 By Lisa Miller

It’s impossible for some of us to understand why and how former senator Rick Santorum, who has zero qualifications to be president of the United States and whose positions on family and social issues are prehistoric, continues to survive and even thrive this Republican primary season. His victories in Alabama and Mississippi this week only further our astonishment. […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Lisa Miller, Rick Santorum, traditionalism

Feminism’s final frontier? Religion.

March 8, 2012 By Lisa Miller

The battle of the sexes, waged this election season with fulsome fury in the public space, is being fought in a much more painful, private sphere as well. In churches (and synagogues and mosques) across the land, women are still treated as second-class citizens. And because women of faith are increasingly breadwinners, single moms and […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Christianity, church, feminism, Lisa Miller, Religion

Romney, Santorum and archaic ideas on fertility

March 2, 2012 By Lisa Miller

Between them, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have as many children — 12 — as there were tribes of Israel. Ron Paul has five of his own, and in an early debate, perhaps unwilling to be outdone by Michele Bachmann’s fostering of dozens, Paul boasted that when he worked as a physician he delivered “4,000 […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: family planning, fertility, Lisa Miller, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum

The religion and politics of division

February 23, 2012 By Lisa Miller

Last week, the Christianity police, in the persons of Rick Santorum and Franklin Graham, came forward to discredit the president’s religious beliefs. First, Santorum called President Obama’s theology “phony”; then, on “Morning Joe,” Graham refused to accept Obama into his Christian band of brothers: “He has said he’s a Christian, so I just have to assume that he […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Barack Obama, division, Lisa Miller, politics, Religion, Rick Santorum

How Obama should fight the ‘war on religion’

February 16, 2012 By Lisa Miller

A very wise Trappist monk once told me that unless everyone gets to heaven, no one will. It’s this sense of mutual responsibility — fundamental to the Judeo-Christian tradition — that President Obama needs to emphasize now. It seems far-fetched, from my perspective, to think that God should have any opinion at all about contraceptive […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Barack Obama, Conference of Catholic Bishops, Lisa Miller, war on religion

In the contraception furor, the loud voices of a few threaten revolutionary gains of all U.S. women

February 9, 2012 By Lisa Miller

The Obama administration may have wriggled out of a tight spot when it announced it would require insurers – and not some religiously based employers, as it previously indicated – to provide no-cost birth control to employees. But the furor hasn’t died down yet, and amid all the election-year politicking and claims of trampled religious freedoms, the revolutionary gains […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: birth control, contraception, Lisa Miller, Obama administration

Rethinking the soul as the ’Net becomes more lifelike

February 2, 2012 By Lisa Miller

The question occurred to me as I spent an hour browsing the Web, and on inspection, it seemed to me not entirely nutty. Technology is changing the way we think about all kinds of theological concepts, such as community, prayer, ritual and worship. Why should it not expand our definition of “soul”? What a soul […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: internet, Lisa Miller, souls

Is Romney nicer because he’s Mormon?

January 26, 2012 By Lisa Miller

Mitt Romney’s tax returns prompt this question. According to those documents, which he released recently, Romney gives at least 10 percent of his earnings of about $20 million a year to the Mormon Church. He tithes, in other words, in accordance with the expectations of his church’s leaders and the biblical command from Leviticus: “All tithes from […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: altruism, Lisa Miller, Mitt Romney, Mormonism, Religion

For Santorums, personal tragedy turned political

January 20, 2012 By Lisa Miller

Haunting the political landscape is the ghost (or soul or spirit or memory or image, depending on how you see these things) of Gabriel Michael Santorum. Born at 19 gestational weeks, too young to live outside the uterus, Gabriel died within two hours. The story is well known. In October 1996, Karen Santorum underwent surgery […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Abortion, Lisa Miller, Rick Santorum

Who owns yoga?

January 11, 2012 By Lisa Miller

The video, three minutes long and posted just a week ago, is tearing up the Internet, causing appreciative reactions among heterosexual men and some yoga fans and disapproval among yoga purists. Shot in the penthouse of the Mondrian SoHo hotel in New York, it shows a gorgeous young woman performing expert yoga moves wearing only a […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Lisa Miller, yoga

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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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