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Does the BP Oil Spill Herald the Apocalypse?

June 4, 2010 By Lisa Miller

A growing conversation among Christian fundamentalists asks the question that may have been inevitable: is the oil spill in the gulf a sign of the coming apocalypse? About 60 million white evangelicals live in America, and about one third of them believe that the world will end in their lifetime, according to the Pew Research […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: apocalypse, Book of Revelation, BP oil spill, Christian fundamentalists, Christians, dispensationalism, evangelicals, heaven, Lisa Miller, millerites, Pew Research Center, theology, William Miller

The Catholic Church Attacks Nuns

May 27, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Earlier this month, in something of a surprise, a nun at a Catholic hospital in Phoenix was excommunicated for approving a first-trimester abortion last year at that hospital to save the life of a critically ill patient. “An unborn child is not a disease,” said Bishop Thomas Olmsted of the Phoenix diocese. “While medical professionals […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Abortion, Bishop Thomas Olmsted, first trimester abortion, Lisa Miller, orthodox theology, phoenix diocese, religious sisters, second Vatican council, theology, Vatican, Vatican II

New York Times’ Mark Oppenheimer Reviews “Heaven”

May 1, 2010 By Lisa Miller

On May 1st, 2010, Mark Oppenheimer reviewed “Heaven” in The New York Times: About a year ago, our neighbor’s beloved mutt, Bruno, went to dog heaven, followed six months later by Bear, the sweet brown Newfoundland down the block. I am not speaking metaphorically but repeating the wisdom of my 3-year-old daughter, who learned her […]

Filed Under: Reviews of Heaven Tagged With: heaven, Lisa Miller, Mark Oppenheimer, New York Times, theology

The Washington Post’s Scott Russell Sanders on “Heaven”

April 11, 2010 By Lisa Miller

On April 11th, 2010, Scott Russell Sanders reviewed “Heaven” in The Washington Post: “Everybody talking about heaven ain’t going there.” So runs the refrain of an African American spiritual, one source that Lisa Miller happens not to cite in her thorough survey of notions about the afterlife. The material she does reference covers a wide […]

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St James Church Secedes from the Episcopal Church

January 14, 2010 By Lisa Miller

In 2004 the members of St. James Church in tony Newport Beach, Calif., voted to secede from the Episcopal Church of the United States. Like dozens of other conservative Episcopal churches at the time, St. James found the theology of its denomination insufficiently orthodox (and the consecration of a gay Episcopal prelate unbiblical). So it, […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek, Religion Tagged With: Lisa Miller, theology

Public Relations for the Pope

May 14, 2009 By Lisa Miller

I say this with respect: Pope Benedict XVI has a public-relations problem. You need only remember the 2000 visit of John Paul II to Jerusalem—which earned wall-to-wall cable coverage and produced the unforgettable image of the frail pope praying by the Western Wall—to know it’s true. Pope Benedict, by contrast, visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust […]

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A Post-Evangelical America

November 6, 2008 By Lisa Miller

Just as “race” has a whole new meaning in America this week, so, too, does “faith.” For at least four decades, white evangelicals have been the religion-and-politics story in this country. Their power, their rhetoric, their numbers, their theology

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: evangelicals, Lisa Miller, theology

Stop Your Sobbing

March 10, 2008 By Lisa Miller

Will Bowen takes “uncomplaining” to an extreme. Bowen doesn’t gripe about anything, ever. A reporter asks, “How are you doing?” “Great!” he answers. “Can’t complain.” Really? You can’t complain? What do you do when your car breaks down? “I call the mechanic and ask him to fix my car.” How about when something terrible and […]

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Proof

October 15, 2007 By Lisa Miller

Relations between science and religion have grown so strained that it’s hard to imagine they were ever otherwise. Until the Enlightenment, however, science and religion were better than friendly: they were the same thing. The “scientists” at the great medieval universities were students of theology. Mining divine Scripture for insights into human morality and free […]

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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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