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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

Vienna’s Newest Boy Band

June 30, 2008 By Lisa Miller

The question comes off like an old “Monty Python” gag. What musical group in Britain is more popular than Paul Simon or the Ting Tings? The Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz. Several weeks ago, a group of Cistercian monks who live in a 12th-century monastery near Vienna, who wear cowls and wake at 5 each morning […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Lisa Miller, monks

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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