Author and journalist Susan Katz Miller is both an interfaith child and an interfaith parent. She is considered the top expert on interfaith families celebrating more than one religion, and has spoken across the country and abroad. In 2013, Beacon Press published her book Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family. Her 2019 workbook, The Interfaith Family Journal, is designed to help all families figure out their own best pathway.

Miller graduated from Brown University, and worked as a reporter at Newsweek in New York, Los Angeles and Washington DC. She then moved to Dakar, Senegal for three years. While there, she wrote travel pieces for the New York Times, and interviewed the President of Senegal for Newsweek International. She also wrote political pieces for the Christian Science Monitor from Benin, Togo, the Gambia, and Sierra Leone. She then became a US Correspondent for the British weekly magazine New Scientist. And later, she spent three years freelancing from northeastern Brazil. Back in Washington, DC, she served as Board Co-Chair of the Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington DC. Miller also founded a national support group for families celebrating more than one religion, the Network of Interfaith Family Groups, on Facebook.

Miller founded the first blog devoted to interfaith family communities and interfaith identity, onbeingboth.com. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Time, Slate, Utne Reader, Discover, Science, National Wildlife, Moment, Jewcy.com, interfaithfamily.com, and many other publications. Miller studied photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and her photographs have appeared in the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and International Wildlife. Her work on interfaith families has been featured on The Today Show (NBC), CBS, NPR (All Things Considered, Here & Now, and The Diane Rehm Show), on the PBS program Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, and in dozens of other media outlets. Miller also wrote regularly for The (Jewish Daily) Forward‘s interfaith relationship advice column, The Seesaw.

Susan Katz Miller is available for consulting, teaching, speaking, guest sermons, book group appearances, personal interfaith family and couples coaching, and facilitating workshops and seminars for interfaith couples, teens, grandparents, clergy, and educators. She has spoken at Harvard, Georgetown, University of Birmingham (UK), Al Akhawayn University (Morocco), the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly (Sophia Fahs Keynote speaker), Parliament of Worlds Religions, The Guibord Center (LA), churches, synagogues, and many other venues.

For more information on Susan please go to www.susankatzmiller.com

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This week on The Faith Voices Podcast Active Hope with Chris Johnstone Part 2.

Chris Johnstone, co-author of the book Active Hope, is a medical doctor, author, trainer and coach who worked for nearly twenty years as an addictions specialist in the UK National Health Service. A former Senior Teaching Fellow at Bristol University Medical School, he trains health professionals in behavioral medicine and gives courses exploring the psychological dimensions of planetary crisis.

Chris is known for his work pioneering the role of resilience training in promoting positive mental health, developing self-help resources and setting up the Bristol Happiness Lectures. He is author of Seven Ways to Build Resilience (Robinson, UK, 2019), and runs online trainings for resilience, wellbeing and active hope at CollegeOfWellbeing.com

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Today on the Interfaith Voices podcast, Sally Evans from the Center for Interfaith Relations joins the show to talk about the upcoming Festival of Faiths in Louisville, KY.

For more information of Festival of Faiths go to https://festivaloffaiths.org/