Susan Katz Miller

LATEST ARTICLES ( 243 )

• Five Reasons for Interfaith Empathy at Christmas

  

  Gingerbread Village. Photo, Susan Katz Miller From the archives. I wrote this essay back in 2010. It feels all the more relevant today! In my doctor's office... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2018 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• #GenInterfaith: Parliament of the World’s Religions

  

  Quilt of Belonging, Parliament of the World's Religions, 2018. Photo, Susan Katz Miller I love seeing people from #GenInterfaith, those from interfaith... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2018 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• When One Religion Isn’t Enough

  

  It brings me great joy to celebrate the recent publication of When One Religion Isn't Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People, by Duane Bidwell, who is a... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2018 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Hanukkah, in Interfaith Families Celebrating Two (or More) Religions

  

  This time of year, interfaith families scour the internet for advice on celebrating Hanukkah and Christmas. For those who celebrate both December holidays, I... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2018 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Losing My Father, Not My Religion

  What does it look like to be part of a lineage in which all the living descendants are interfaith, multifaith, of mixed heritage, religiously complex, or... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2018 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Interfaith Families, Call to Action

  

  On Saturday, on Shabbat, we experienced the most deadly attack on the Jewish community in US history, fueled by a climate of hatred coming from the White House... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2018 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Being Both: 5th Birthday!

  

  Five years ago today, Beacon Press published Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family. For me, that publication day was the culmination of... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2018 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Big News! The Interfaith Family Journal

  

  I am thrilled to announce that my next book, The Interfaith Family Journal, will be published by Skinner House on March 15th, 2019. In the Journal, thoughtful... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2018 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• September: Interfaith Renewal

  

  "Do you remember, never a cloudy day..." Earth, Wind Fire is the soundtrack to my formative years, and the song " September " always gets me out on the dance... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2018 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• High Holy Days: Interfaith Connections

  

  Heads up! Rosh Hashanah starts early this year, on the evening of September 9th. Over the past decade, in some of my over 300 essays here, I have written about... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2018 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Interfaith Families, Beyond Chrismukkah

  

  Just before my son's interfaith Coming of Age and Bar Mitzvah, I got a request from a graduate student who wanted to attend the ceremony as part of her... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2018 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Passover and Good Friday, 2018

  In both Christianity and Judaism, the dates for the major spring holidays are guided by an intricate dance of the moon and the sun-the lunisolar calendar. This... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2018 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• 2018 Spring Interfaith Connections

  In nine years of writing this interfaith blog, I have posted multiple essays on many of the spring Jewish and Christian holidays: Purim, St Patrick's Day,... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2018 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Coming Soon: A New Book for Interfaith Families

  It has been a freezing winter, with everything cased in ice, still waiting for a thaw. Meanwhile, my longtime followers may have noticed that my blog has been i... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2018 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Mama’s Box Latkes: An Interfaith Elegy

  I have come to realize that one of the most important Hanukkah traditions in my multi-generational interfaith family is, box latkes. Yes, the latkes made from... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2017 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas: Book Review

  The world of interfaith families in America is filled now with a kaleidoscope of beliefs, practices, and identities unimaginable to our grandparents. We are... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2017 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• “Intermarriage” and a Rabbi Roundtable

  

  I could not resist responding to a piece posted today in The Forward, as part of a new regular feature called the Rabbi Roundtable. The topic: "Is... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2017 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• High Holy Days 2017: Finding Interfaith Community

  

  September means back to school. The last of the tomatoes, and the first pumpkins. Cooler nights. The angle of the autumn light. And for many families celebratin... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2017 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Children’s Books, Interfaith Education

  

  Books my interfaith kids read Photo, Susan Katz Miller How do we educate interfaith children about the various religions in the family tree? Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2017 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Jew by Cynthia M. Baker: Book Review

  

  As someone who has been labeled a “first class disrupter,” I was of course immediately attracted to the chutzpah of a book entitled, simply, Jew. Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2017 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY