Susan Katz Miller

LATEST ARTICLES ( 243 )

• In Faith and In Doubt: Secular/Religious “Interfaith” Families

  

  My review of a new book by Dale McGowan, In Faith and In Doubt, the first book on secular/religious mixed marriages, just went up on my Huffington Post blog. Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• “Conversation With Interfaith Family Pioneer”

  

  Ken Chitwood describes himself as a “theologian without borders,” interested in “the contextualization of doctrines practices across religious boundaries,... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Interfaith Education for All: A Review of Being Both

  

  In my public speaking, I often point out that interfaith children need interfaith education, but also, when you think about it, all children need multifaith... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Ten Reasons Couples Join Interfaith Family Communities

  

  Protestant and Jewish grandparents hand down the Torah at an interfaith Bar Mitzvah. Photo stephaniewilliamsimages In yesterday’s Washington Post, Michelle... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Interfaith Children Speak Out: #JewsAndArabsRefuseToBeEnemies

  

  In order to write Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family, I interviewed Jewish and Christian, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Christian,... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Response to the Pew Poll on “Favorite Religions”

  This week, Pew Research released a poll in which they asked people to rate how “warm” or “cold” they feel about various religions. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Interfaith Ramadan: Jewish and Christian Meets Muslim

  

  Beads collected in Senegal, Mauritania, Mali and Benin. Photo: Susan Katz MillerOne of the great joys of writing Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Rabbi for Interfaith Families, for UUs, for All of Us

  A few months ago, I had the honor of interviewing Rabbi Chava Bahle about her historic selection as a rabbi to lead a Unitarian-Universalist (UU) community. Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Women, Religion, and Interfaith Families

  Why have most founders of interfaith family communities been women? Historically, how has the male domination of religious institutions affected interfaith... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Video: An Interfaith Boy, an Interfaith Community

  When my mother, an interfaith families pioneer, watched this video, she said, “Well Sue, you don’t need to go out on speaking tours anymore–just have everyone... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Musings of an Interfaith Mama

  

  I am honored to have a post today on Beacon Broadside, the excellent blog put out by Beacon Press, my publisher. Take a look…  The author and her mother in 1961. Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Listen, Include, Engage: Progress for Interfaith Families

  

  My parents, interfaith family pioneers, still kicking and strumming at 83 and 89 A couple of years back, the venerable Jewish Daily Forward published a... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Passover: Aimee Helen’s Southern-Style Charoset Recipe

  

  From the archives: Originally posted on March 24, 2010. Happy Passover, all! In the late 19th century, my great-grandfather Emanuel Michael Rosenfelder left... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Being Both: Interfaith Cross-Country Tour

  

  I spent most of March traveling and speaking and having amazing conversations around Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Passover: Three Generations of Interfaith Family

  

  Passover and Easter are fast approaching, and I am still immersed in speaking and traveling in support of my book, Being Both. So I am reposting some essays fro... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Being Both: Catch the Interfaith Tour in PA, CT, CA, VA, DC.

  

  Susan Katz Miller at Politics Prose, StephanieWilliamsImagesThe Being Both book tour is ramping up again, just in time for Passover and Easter. Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Being Both: Notes from an Interfaith Book Tour

  

  StephanieWilliamsImagesI am being being both these days: both encouraged and challenged by readers and audiences since the launch of Being Both last fall. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Rabbi to Lead a Unitarian-Universalist Congregation

  

  Rabbi Chava Bahle (Photo: Beryl Striewski) Recently, a Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregation in northern Michigan selected Rabbi Chava Bahle to serve as thei... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Being Both: The Interfaith Book Trailer

  Over winter break, we visited my parents in my childhood home, surrounded this time of year by deep snow and deer and wild turkeys. Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• “…Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, Will Be Able to Join Hands…”

  

  Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr‘s birthday this year, I found myself standing with hundreds of other interfaith family members, singing “We Shall Overcome. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY