Lisa Miller

Lisa Miller

Belief Watch

“On Faith” panelist Lisa Miller is a senior editor at Newsweek. She oversees all of the magazine's religion coverage and writes the regular "Belief Watch column. She edited Newsweek’s “Spirituality in America” double issue, which looked at the rise of spirituality and why many Americans are choosing to seek spiritual experiences outside traditional religions. She has supervised publication of major cover stories including “Sex, Shame and the Catholic Church,” (March 2002), “The Bible and the Qur’an,” (February 2002), “Fighting Addiction,” (February 2001), and “God and the Brain,” (May 2001). Miller came to Newsweek from the Wall Street Journal, where she was an award-winning senior special writer covering religion for the paper’s front page since 1997. Prior to the Journal, Miller worked at the New Yorker, Self magazine and Harvard Business Review. In 1998, she won a New York Newswomen’s Club award for feature writing. She earned a B.A. in English from Ohio’s Oberlin College. Miller is writing a book about contemporary beliefs and conceptions of heaven. Close.

Lisa Miller

Belief Watch

“On Faith” panelist Lisa Miller is a senior editor at Newsweek. She oversees all of the magazine's religion coverage and writes the regular "Belief Watch column. more »

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Bless this Bottled Water
It's not surprising that a few savvy marketers would seize on water, the universal symbol of purity, for financial gain.

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Anonymous:

This Jewish reporter should rename her column "Christian Watch"....as it is used to report propaganda and misinformation about Christians (esp. Catholics) so "inform" the leftist secular and jewish thought/belief police.


I can't wait for the passage of the "though crimes" bill HR 1955 by Harman!

December 10, 2007 6:53 PM | Report Offensive Comments

Posted on December 10, 2007 18:53

Anonymous:

This Jewish reporter should rename her column "Christian Watch"....as it is used to report propaganda and misinformation about Christians (esp. Catholics) so "inform" the leftist secular and jewish thought/belief police.


I can't wait for the passage of the "though crimes" bill HR 1955 by Harman!

December 10, 2007 6:51 PM | Report Offensive Comments

Posted on December 10, 2007 18:51

Anonymous:

This Jewish reporter should rename her column "Christian Watch"....as it is used to report propaganda and misinformation about Christians (esp. Catholics) so "inform" the leftist secular and jewish thought/belief police.


I can't wait for the passage of the "though crimes" bill HR 1955 by Harman!

December 10, 2007 6:50 PM | Report Offensive Comments

Posted on December 10, 2007 18:50

Gavin082:

People only talk about God when they're trying to raise funds, collect converts, and amass power. I'd say this falls squarely into the lap of point number one.

December 10, 2007 2:39 PM | Report Offensive Comments

Posted on December 10, 2007 14:39

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