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Will voters forgive Newt Gingrich?

December 1, 2011 By Lisa Miller

I once watched an apology rebuffed. A young child said something hurtful to a grown-up dinner guest. After prompting from her mother, the child apologized. “I’m sorry,” the 6-year-old said in a dutiful and not completely sincere tone. “Sorry,” replied the grown-up, “is not enough.” I think of this frequently when I watch the renewed […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: forgiveness, Lisa Miller, Newt Gingrich, penance

The Misinformants

August 28, 2010 By Lisa Miller

What ‘stealth jihad’ doesn’t mean. Here is the latest semantic assault from the party that brought you “Islamo-facism” (circa 2005) and “Axis of Evil” (2002). The term “stealth jihad” is suddenly voguish among politically ambitious right wingers who see President Obama’s approach to terrorism as insufficient. If it sounds like a phrase from a military-fantasy […]

Filed Under: Newsweek Tagged With: Ground Zero, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Lisa Miller, Newt Gingrich

War Over Ground Zero

August 8, 2010 By Lisa Miller

A proposed mosque tests the limits of American tolerance. They have almost everything in common, including the tragedy that defines their lives. Both women were born in the Bronx and educated in Catholic schools. They married and raised kids of their own in the boroughs that circle Manhattan; as parents, they—like most of us—fought too […]

Filed Under: Newsweek Tagged With: Ground Zero, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Lisa Miller, Michael Bloomberg, Newt Gingrich, U.S. News, World Trade Center

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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NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD

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