Susan Katz Miller

LATEST ARTICLES ( 243 )

• Happy 2nd Bday, Interfaith Family Journal

  

  The Interfaith Family Journal turns two today! And I have to admit, this little interactive book has brought me nothing but joy. It brings me joy to help... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2021 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Spring Interfaith Holidays 2021

  

  Glorious Color quilts by my cousin, Liza Prior Lucy This post has become an annual tradition. Over more than a decade writing this interfaith blog, I have poste... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2021 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Interfaith Zoom Life in Pandemic Times

  

  I have always loved February. My parents had their interfaith wedding in a blizzard on February 13th. So I love the deep February snow when it comes. And I... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2021 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Top Posts in 2020

  

  Top blog posts on interfaith families from 2020 on onbeingboth.com by Susan Katz Miller. Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2020 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Interfaith Families in the Pandemic, at Christmas

  

  The challenges for interfaith families at Christmas, in the pandemic. Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2020 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Menorah Conclusion: Interfaith Family, Year 60

  

  Second generation interfaith kids still want to light Hanukkah candles. Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2020 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• 8 Ways to a Peaceful December in Interfaith Families

  

  My little sister and I, in our interfaith family in 1964. We have reached (finally!) the last month of the longest year I can remember, 2020. And December... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2020 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Blessed Are the Nones: Book Review

  

  Book review of Blessed Are the Nones, a memoir about a Protestant married to an agnostic. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2020 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Being Both…a Male and Female God: Q & A with Rabbi Mark Sameth

  

  Rabbi Mark Sameth's new book, The Name: A History of the Dual-Gendered Hebrew Name for God, chronicles how the God of ancient Israel was understood by its... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2020 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Interfaith Family of Kamala Harris

  

  Kamala means lotus in Sanskrit. Photo Susan Katz Miller When Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris as his running-mate yesterday, he created the possibility of the... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2020 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Silver Lining in Zoom Community

  

  My grandfather Edward David Katz (right) and his twin, Edna. My father's grandmother lost both parents in a yellow fever epidemic. My father's father lost his... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2020 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• New Video! May This Hamsa Protect Us All

  After weeks confined at home, I felt a brief surge of creativity, and decided to make a speed coloring video. I had created the coloring pages a year ago to... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2020 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Steep Mountain: Interfaith Life in a Pandemic

  

  In my Easter bonnet. On mute. We made it through Holy Week and Passover. Dayenu. Dayenu is everyone's favorite song at the Seder. It means, "it would have... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2020 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Happy Birthday, Interfaith Family Journal

  

  We are living through strange, dark times. To keep anxiety and depression at bay, we need to remember what is good in the world, and to celebrate what we can,... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2020 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Hamentaschen, Fertility, and Syncretism

  

  Photo, Susan Katz Miller Why is this hamentaschen upside-down? Is it a distress signal? No! Just Purim fun, and feminist chutzpah. I simply rotated one of my ol... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2020 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Spring Interfaith Holidays 2020

  

  This post has become an annual tradition! In ten years of writing this interfaith blog, I have posted multiple essays on many of the spring Jewish and... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2020 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Interfaith Families: Why I (Still) Use The Term

  

  How do those of us who form families across religious (or secular/humanist/atheist) differences find other families like us? How do we share resources and... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2020 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• My (Interfaith) Decade, 2010-2019

  

  Brittany Coast. Photo by Susan Katz Miller This was a big decade for me. Both personally and professionally, the past ten years have featured dizzying highs... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2019 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Eight Top Interfaith Family Posts of the Decade

  

  Author Susan Katz Miller in Chicago in 2019 We are heading into a new decade (and the second decade for this blog). So I thought I would pause to think about th... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2019 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Problem with Gendered Descent

  

  The author. Photo by Lucy Jean Brettler Religions, many of them, lag and drag on issues of gender equality. We see this in the patriarchal texts and liturgies,... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2019 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY