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Jesus at Occupy Wall Street: ‘I feel like I’ve been here before’

October 20, 2011 By Lisa Miller

“What would Jesus think of Occupy Wall Street?” I asked myself this week as I wandered the makeshift, blue-tarp village in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. Born with little means into a first-century world, the historical Jesus might feel right at home with the very aspects of the occupation that so many 21st-century observers consider gross: the tents, the damp sleeping […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Jesus, Lisa Miller, Occupy Wall Street

An open letter to Mitt Romney

October 13, 2011 By Lisa Miller

Dear Governor Romney, You haven’t asked, but I’d like to offer you some free, nonpartisan advice about how to talk about your Mormon faith in public. When a Texas megachurch pastor can rob you of a news cycle, as the Rev. Robert Jeffress did last weekend when he called the Church of Jesus Christ of […]

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

Faith vs. reason? That’s really dumb.

October 7, 2011 By Lisa Miller

A new study, published last month in the Journal of Experimental Psychology by a group of Harvard psychologists, got me thinking for the zillionth time about how much I have come to detest the “faith vs. reason” debate. In this most recent iteration, scientists set out to discover how people who believe in God think […]

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

Loving Judaism but questioning Israel

September 28, 2011 By Lisa Miller

  If politics are personal, then let me say this. I love almost everything about the Judaism I practice: Born into a Jewish family, but raised without any formal religious education, I have in recent years become a member of a Reform synagogue in Brooklyn. I love singing the ancient prayers. I love our rabbis […]

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

In GOP race, public prayers seem more political than personal

September 21, 2011 By Lisa Miller

  Among the Republican candidates running for president in 2012, there’s been a whole lot of praying in public. Months before his Christian revival meeting in Houston, Rick Perry prayed, presumably to Jesus, for rain — though when he established the Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas back in April, the proclamation was nonsectarian. He […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: GOP, Lisa Miller, Michele Bachmann, prayer, presidential race, Rick Perry

Separation of church and state in marriage?

September 15, 2011 By Lisa Miller

  It isn’t exactly a movement — more of a blogosphere hubbub. In solidarity with his gay and lesbian brothers and sisters, one well-known evangelical pastor in Minneapolis is taking a stand. As long as his state won’t confer upon homosexuals the legal right to marry, Tony Jones won’t sign a marriage license. He will officiate at […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: gay marriage, Lisa Miller, Tony Jones

Be not afraid of evangelicals

August 18, 2011 By Lisa Miller

  Here we go again. The Republican primaries are six months away, and already news stories are raising fears on the left about “crazy Christians.” One piece connects Texas Gov. Rick Perry with a previously unknown Christian group called “The New Apostolic Reformation,” whose main objective is to “infiltrate government.” Another highlights whacko-sounding Christian influences on Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota. A third cautions readers […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Dominionism, Lisa Miller, Michele Bachmann, Republican primaries, Rick Perry

Believers wonder: Where is the old Obama?

August 11, 2011 By Lisa Miller

  “We worship an awesome God in the blue states!” That was Barack Obama in 2004, not yet a U.S. senator, at the Democratic National Convention. And for the next four years, he did something extraordinary. He convincingly articulated a set of American values for the center-left. “Values” were not something God gave to Republicans […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Barack Obama, God, Lisa Miller

Christians on both sides of budget battle claim to fight for the poor

August 4, 2011 By Lisa Miller

  After this week’s debt-ceiling deal in Congress, trillions of dollars of spending cuts are on the table. New cuts will sink deep, laying bare the nation’s moral priorities. The tough choices will be left to a new Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. But let’s imagine for a minute that the Christian Lord could pore over the […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Barack Obama, Christianity, Congress, government spending, Lisa Miller

Evangelical women rise as new ‘feminists’

July 28, 2011 By Lisa Miller

  In evangelical Christian circles, “feminist” has traditionally been a dirty word. The three short syllables have done heavy work, telegraphing all the things the “Christian right” loves to hate about the “secular left.” A feminist, according to this definition, favors “abortion on demand, government-funded abortion, redistribution of wealth, same-sex marriage and is antiwar, anti-defense,” […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: christian, evangelicals, feminism, Lisa Miller, mothers

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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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