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Can Romney reconcile his wealth and his faith?

July 20, 2012 By Lisa Miller

As the calls for Mitt Romney to release his tax returns grow louder, and concerns about his undisclosed millions in offshore accounts increase, I wonder how the presumptive Republican nominee reconciles his great, secret stores of wealth with the principles of his Mormon faith. For Mormonism, as much as conventional Christianity, decries the hoarding of […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Lisa Miller, Mitt Romney, Mormonism, wealth

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

Is Romney nicer because he’s Mormon?

January 26, 2012 By Lisa Miller

Mitt Romney’s tax returns prompt this question. According to those documents, which he released recently, Romney gives at least 10 percent of his earnings of about $20 million a year to the Mormon Church. He tithes, in other words, in accordance with the expectations of his church’s leaders and the biblical command from Leviticus: “All tithes from […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: altruism, Lisa Miller, Mitt Romney, Mormonism, Religion

An open letter to Mitt Romney

October 13, 2011 By Lisa Miller

Dear Governor Romney, You haven’t asked, but I’d like to offer you some free, nonpartisan advice about how to talk about your Mormon faith in public. When a Texas megachurch pastor can rob you of a news cycle, as the Rev. Robert Jeffress did last weekend when he called the Church of Jesus Christ of […]

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

Not Too Mormon

September 25, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Conventional wisdom in the last election cycle held that Mitt Romney could never win the hearts of America’s conservative evangelicals—the Republican base—because he’s Mormon, and evangelicals don’t consider Mormons to be properly Christian. “I don’t believe conservative Christians will vote for a Mormon, but that remains to be seen,” James Dobson, then chairman of Focus […]

Filed Under: Newsweek Tagged With: christian, Glenn Beck, GOP, Lisa Miller, Mitt Romney, Mormonism, presidential race

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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