Mark Twain quipped that people assume heaven will be green fields and harp music — an eternity of activities no one would enjoy for five minutes while still alive. Here is a central dilemma of our preoccupation with heaven. Our […]
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekThere 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
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekLisa 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
What is heaven? Eighty percent of Americans say they believe in heaven, yet very few of them can articulate anything specific about their belief. Numerous questions surrounding the concept of heaven have existed for ages, and Americans continue to grapple
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekHis return to Buddhism could be one more scripted PR stunt. Or, it could be the path to redemption.
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek“Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife” by Lisa Miller (Harper-Collins ISBN 978-0-06-055475-0) “Heaven. The word evokes all kinds of images and feelings in the hearts of people virtually everywhere. In some corners, heaven is seen as a vague sense
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