Susan Katz Miller
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On Being Both
http://onbeingboth.com/
A chronicle of interfaith family life, by the author of the book "Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family" (Beacon Press, October 2013). Raising children with both Judaism and Christianity. Resources on interfaith identity, multiple religious-belonging, and the positive experiences of people raised with more than one religion. Resources for interfaith families including Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Pagan and others.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 239 )
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Strange Wives: The Paradox of Biblical Intermarriage
Abraham, Moses, Ruth, David, Samson, Joseph, Esther, Solomon.What do they all have in common?They were intermarried. Thus begins Strange Wives: The Paradox of... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2015 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
Interfaith Families, Jewish Communities: Spring Thaw
Do you hear a rumbling, creaking, sighing noise, like an iceberg melting? That’s the sound of policies designed to freeze out interfaith families, shifting and... Read more
Posted on 26 January 2015 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
A Catholic, a Muslim, a Jewish Education, an Interfaith Family
Kristen IlyasInterfaith families continue to build bridges–quietly, peacefully, steadily, around the world. For today’s post, I invited guest blogger Kristen... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2015 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
New Year’s Interfaith Gratitude: 9 Shout-Outs
In this New Year, at the start of 2015, I want to try to thank everyone who supported Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family in 2014, the... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2015 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
Christmas and Hanukkah: 2014 Round-Up
This year, Hanukkah ends just in time to give a day of breathing space between the eight-day celebration and the arrival of Christmas. Read more
Posted on 22 December 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
A Millennial Perspective on Interfaith Marriage: When Unchurched Meets Unmosqued
Frank and Medina (Note: Today I’m pleased to share this space with guest blogger Frank Fredericks.)I recently read Susan Katz Miller’s Being Both, which is a... Read more
Posted on 11 December 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
An Interfaith Child’s Hanukkah and Christmas
I wrote this piece for Beacon Broadside, the marvelous blog from my publisher, Beacon Press. To read it on that blog, click here. Read more
Posted on 03 December 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
Seeing the Sacred in One Interfaith Family
Barbara Mahany describes her new book as a field guide to wonder. The essays in Slowing Time: Seeing the Sacred Outside Your Kitchen Door at times bring to... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
Interfaith Family Community, Chicago Style
In writing Being Both, I set out to chronicle the rise of a grassroots movement centered on three great cities with vibrant interfaith family communities: New... Read more
Posted on 10 November 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
An Interfaith Family Community Welcomes a Torah
As a parent determined to connect my children to Judaism, as a writer who loves storytelling, as a Jew who grew up wrestling with our ancient texts, I wanted... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
Being Both: The Paperback
Opening my first box of paperbacks. Today, Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family comes out in paperback. For me, the paperback release... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
Being Both: Paperback Release Events!
Dear readers (interfaith families, interfaith activists, therapists, visionary clergy, theologians, sociologists, historians of religion), I am so very... Read more
Posted on 07 October 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
High Holy Days: Now With Great Poetry
Two blog posts this week hinted at the struggle many interfaith families, and many Jewish families, have with the intimidating length and inaccessibility of... Read more
Posted on 19 September 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
High Holidays with an Interfaith Community: 2014 Edition
Each year, I have taken to posting a set of links to Jewish High Holiday (or High Holy Day) services designed by and for interfaith families. Read more
Posted on 17 September 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
7 Ways for Interfaith Families to Find Community
This year, I posted my annual roundup of communities that welcome interfaith families over on my Huffington Post blog, in order to reach more interfaith familie... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
Jewish and Muslim: Interfaith Children in Israel
Olive Branches, photo by Martha Legg KatzOne of the reasons I wrote Being Both was to encourage more adult interfaith children to speak out about their own... Read more
Posted on 02 September 2014 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY -
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