Susan Katz Miller

At this time of year, a blizzard of articles about the so-called December Dilemma swirls up like snowflakes rising from the floor of a snowglobe. Every year, I take calls from journalists looking to, perhaps, shake things up: to dramatize what they are sure must be a conflict between Christmas...

For more than fifteen years now, interfaith families across the country have been inspired by Celebrating Our Differences: Living Two Faiths in One Marriage, a groundbreaking joint memoir describing deep religious practice by both partners in a successful interfaith marriage. This week brought tragic news of the sudden...

Ten years ago, on 9/11, I walked home from the corner after putting my daughter on the school bus, turned on the television, watched a plane hit the second tower, realized I was watching an act of terror and not an accident, and then turned off the television, trying to...

Religious interconnections can seem as tenuous and delicate as the strands of a spiderweb, easily blown to tatters by politics, tribalism, fear, fundamentalism, misunderstanding. But in the decade since 9/11, the yearning for interfaith dialogue and religious tolerance has begun to create a critical density of interwoven threads, more akin...

1. What is a "Bar Mitzvah and Coming-of-Age Ceremony"?
We honored our interfaith son's transition to adolescence with the essence of the Bar Mitzvah (reading from the Torah and Shabbat prayers), but also included elements drawn from his Christian heritage.

2. What do you mean by...

At Passover this year, my 87-year-old father will preside over a long table of children, grandchildren and in-laws gathered in a Florida condo. As part of a sprawling family tree of Italians, French-Canadians, Germans, Irish, Jews, Catholics and Episcopalians, we all take turns reading the traditional Jewish blessings and commentaries....