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Obama’s embrace of gay marriage makes for a spiritual Mother’s Day

May 1, 2012 By Lisa Miller

When President Obama threw his support behind same-sex marriage, he did something much more than please the members of the LGBT community and the people who love them. He gave hope and encouragement to millions of Americans struggling to do right by their children in unconventional or nontraditional families by implicitly asserting “as a practicing Christian” […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Barack Obama, Bible, gay marriage, Lisa Miller, marriage, Mother's Day

What the Bible Really Says About Sex

February 6, 2011 By Lisa Miller

New scholarship on the Good Book’s naughty bits and how it deals with adultery, divorce, and same-sex love. The poem describes two young lovers aching with desire. The obsession is mutual, carnal, complete. The man lingers over his lover’s eyes and hair, on her teeth, lips, temples, neck, and breasts, until he arrives at “the […]

Filed Under: Newsweek Tagged With: Bible, Catholic Church, Christians, God, LGBT, New Testament, Old Testament, sex

The O’Reilly Factor’s Bill O’Reilly Interviews Lisa On Sarah Palin

June 15, 2010 By Lisa Miller

On June 15, 2010, Bill O’Reilly, host of the “O’Reilly Factor,” interviewed Lisa about her Newsweek cover story on Sarah Palin. Watch the video below from YouTube, Fox News, or view on the FoxNews.com website. Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Here’s the transcript (courtesy of FoxNews.com): Interview Is Newsweek’s ‘Saint Sarah’ Cover Story Mocking […]

Filed Under: Appearances and Media, Newsweek, Video Tagged With: Bible, Bill O'Reilly, feminism, feminists, Lisa Miller, Newsweek, religious right, Roe v. Wade, Sarah Palin

Coast To Coast AM’s Ian Punnett Interviews Lisa

June 6, 2010 By Lisa Miller

On June 6, 2010, Coast-to-Coast AM’s Ian Punnett interviewed Lisa about Heaven and the Bible from 2am to 5am. Three hours of early morning radio. Welcome to all the night owls who tuned in. We’ll try to get a local mirror of the podcast for those who missed it. Coast-To-Coast AM

Filed Under: Appearances and Media, Audio Tagged With: Bible, heaven, Lisa Miller

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 Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan Reviews “Heaven”

April 7, 2010 By Lisa Miller

On April 7, 2010, Andrew Sullivan cited the Slate.com review of heaven on The Atlantic’s Daily Dish: Johann Hari reviews Lisa Miller’s new book: The heaven you think you’re headed to–a reunion with your lost relatives in the light–is a very recent invention, only a little older than Goldman Sachs. Most of the believers in […]

Filed Under: Reviews of Heaven Tagged With: Andrew Sullivan, Bible, Daily Dish, Goldman Sachs, heaven, Johann Hari, Lisa Miller, quran

Time Magazine’s Kayla Webley on “Heaven”

March 29, 2010 By Lisa Miller

As far as heaven goes, there are many more questions than answers: Will we all get our own mansions? Will we see our loved ones? Will our bodies look the way they did when we were 25? Will we even have bodies? The Bible, Koran and Torah leave much about the afterlife up in the […]

Filed Under: Reviews of Heaven Tagged With: Bible, heaven, Kayla Webley, Koran, Lisa Miller, monks, Time Magazine, Torah

ReligionDispatches.org Ten Questions for Lisa Miller

March 23, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Where contemporary culture has come to think of heaven as a place to chat, catch up with friends, and eat ice cream, conservative believers are concerned that God has been left out of the picture. A new book by Newsweek’s religion editor, Lisa Miller, covers this and other top stories on the celestial beat. Ten […]

Filed Under: Appearances and Media Tagged With: Bible, Book of Revelation, heaven, Lisa Miller

About Lisa Miller

March 1, 2010 By Lisa Miller

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 […]

Filed Under: New York Magazine Tagged With: Bible, Lisa Miller

Eli’s Coming – Denzel Takes on the Good Book

January 7, 2010 By Lisa Miller

In the post-apocalyptic world of The Book of Eli, the most precious things on earth are a trial-size bottle of shampoo; a cache of hand wipes, individually wrapped; and the last existing copy of the King James Bible. Denzel Washington, cast as the cowboy-monk Eli, is on a mission from God. He has to carry […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek, Religion Tagged With: Bible, 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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NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD

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