On March 15th, Lisa appeared on America Magazine’s podcast hosted by Kerry Weber. You can play the podcast using the player below, or download the mp3 file. local mirror of this podcast
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekOn March 22nd, 2010, Sally Quinn interviewed Lisa for the The Washington Post in a video called “Divine Impulses: Newsweek religion editor Lisa Miller on the decline of hell.” Miller talks about the “paradox” of heaven and the myths and
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Appearances and Media, VideoMark 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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Reviews of HeavenI’m not sure I can take it anymore, my Catholic friend K. wrote to me in an e-mail. Maybe I should become an Episcopalian. Fury does not begin to describe her mood. More than 10,000 children in Europe smacked, tortured,
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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, NewsweekThey see themselves as crusaders for human rights—protectors of the innocent, the voiceless, and the powerless. After years of enduring the slings and arrows of opposition, these activists are finally in the power seat. They are among the most important
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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
Civility isn’t a panacea for our woeful political culture, but at least it could stop the trash talking.
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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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