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/

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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The Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice Hope Lives Annual Celebration is this Thursday, September 18th from 5-7:30pm at the Goodman Center Brassworks Building in Madison, WI. Today's podcast gives a preview of some of the voices you will get to hear that evening.Tickets are still available at www.wifaithvoices.org

This week on the interfaith Voices Podcast is the Hope Lives Annual Celebration featured musician, Shelene Zarate-Lopez!
Shelene is a singer, dancer and actress from Mexico City. She has a B.S. in Communications with specialization in Media Arts with a background in Musical Theater. Her singing experience has roots in traditional Mexican music and opera. Her passion for artistic expression started at the age of three when she first discovered dancing. She has studied different styles of dance including belly dance, hip hop, African, jazz, salsa, merengue and reggaeton. Her family and culture instilled a deep understanding of expressing oneself through music.

Shelene has worked as on air talent, producer and actress in radio, television and other audiovisual platforms. Currently she works as a bilingual specialist consultant, interpreter/translator, voice actor, video talent, script supervisor and as a singer. She hosts a bilingual show “Conectados” on the VMO show on WVMO 98.7 FM every 3rd Friday of the month at 12:00 pm and her interviews are available in video on the Monona Community Media Youtube page and the Monona Go App. In her free time she loves advocating for her Mexican and Latino community, fitness dancing, yoga, sewing, cooking, worshipping, crafting and spending time with God, her Family and her friends!

For more information on the Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice Hope Lives Annual Celebration, please go to www.wifaithvoices.org/hope-lives

Cecelia Klingele was a panelist for our May Interfaith Intersections event on Justice. She is well qualified for the topic as a Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she teaches courses in criminal law, Constitutional criminal procedure, policing, and sentencing and corrections. She also teaches courses for law students and undergraduates on Catholic Legal Thought and the Social Encyclicals. Since 2024, she has served as Director of the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, and is a faculty associate of the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Integrated Liberal Arts Studies program (ILS).

For more information on Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice and Interfaith Intersections please go to www.wifaithvoices.org

The Internal Revenue Service said July 7 it no longer will enforce the Johnson Amendment that prevents churches and other nonprofits from endorsing political candidates. While some are praising the move that effectively ignores a 1954 law passed by Congress, Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice and our National partners Interfaith Alliance see it as a dangerous precedent.

Guthrie Graves-Fitzimmons serves as the vice president of programs and strategy at Interfaith Alliance, where he directs the organization's integrated advocacy campaigns and movement building. He is also an MSNBC columnist and the author of Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity (Broadleaf Books, 2020).

For more on interfaith Alliance go to www.interfaithalliance.org
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