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Obama and Romney offer differing views of God

May 17, 2012 By Lisa Miller

People always ask, “What would Jesus do?,” but in America today, it’s impossible to know. And that’s because there are (at least) two prevailing views of God at work in our public and political conversation. It would not be an exaggeration to say that when you pull the lever this November, you will not just […]

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

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

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

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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