During these pandemic years, I did not feel very productive. Some people wrote novels, baked bread, started new careers. I did a lot of jigsaw puzzles, and a lot of worrying.
But then this fall, I felt a surge of wild back-to-school energy. And so now I have a slew of new projects, including the Kickstarter campaign to fund the audiobook. And in a matter of days, we've almost reached that funding goal.
And just today, in celebration of the Jewish New Year, I rolled out a new website. Why? A new website gives me the opportunity to re-envision my work, ten years after Being Both was first published. Since then, I have shifted from someone who published a book, to someone with two books, and a busy interfaith couples coaching practice, who also teaches workshops and courses. But also, there are two different kinds of resources I wanted to highlight on this new site...
1. First, I wanted a place to showcase all the interfaith family communities that provide interfaith education to interfaith kids, in DC, the NYC area, Chicago, and online. I am hoping there will be more such communities, as time goes by, including communities for families other than Jewish and Christian (for instance, Hindu and Jewish). I always had a list of these communities buried in the Resource section of my old website, but now they're on the landing page, front and center, where they belong.
2. And second, I wanted a place to showcase resources I am producing, for educators who want to include the concept of multiple religious practice in their courses on Religious Studies 101, or World Religions. This summer, I created the three first videos in the "Got More Than One Religion?" series. And there are more videos to come. Then, I worked with curriculum expert Tim Hall PhD to create an Educators Toolkit with lesson plans developed in conjunction with the videos. You can find the Toolkit on the websites of the Interfaith Center of New York, and at Religion Matters, both organizations that supported this project, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities. So check it out. And send the link to religious studies professors and social studies teachers you may know.
And, thank you for being part of this global online community!
