Date: Sunday, February 27, 2022, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm ET
Available by: Join by Videoconference or Watch Online Recordings (learn more about videoconference)
Price: General Public: $ 100.00 | One Spirit Graduates: $ 90.00
One Spirit Elective Credit: 1.0
Did you know that the Hebrew Bible presents God the Father as suffering labor pains, giving birth, and suckling?
Join Susan Katz Miller and Rabbi Mark Sameth for an utterly surprising deep-dive into the text of the Hebrew Bible (no Hebrew required!) and a reconsideration of non-binary religious identities in the 21st century. What are the implications for non-binary humans, and for multi-faith families, when we consider that the God of the Hebrew Bible was originally conceived of as “both/and”?
This experiential workshop includes:
Kabbalistic meditation
Time and space to explore our own complex identities
A chance to consider the human condition from a new perspective
New professional tools to help clergy and counselors in supporting all families and individuals
Join this conversation on embodying more than one gender or more than one religion, and embracing one another more broadly, while honoring differences.
FACULTY:
Susan Katz Miller
Susan Katz Miller is the author of “Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family”(Beacon Press, 2013) and “The Interfaith Family Journal” (2019). She is a former Newsweek reporter. She served as Board Co-Chair of the Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington DC, and founded a national support group for families celebrating more than one religion, the Network of Interfaith Family Groups, on facebook. Her work on interfaith families has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Utne Reader, Jewish Daily Forward, the Today Show, NPR, PBS, and elsewhere. She has spoken at Harvard Divinity School, Union Theological Seminary, University of Birmingham (UK), Al Akhawayn University (Morocco), the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly (Sophia Fahs Keynote), Parliament of Worlds Religions, and many other venues. Find her at susankatzmiller.com
Rabbi Mark Sameth
Rabbi Mark Sameth is the author of The Name: A History of the Dual-Gendered Hebrew Name for God. About the book, Rabbi Lawrence Kushner wrote “this may just be the most interesting thing written about God since the Jews figured out there’s only One.” Named “one of America’s most inspiring rabbis” by The Forward, and featured in the book God: 48 Famous and Fascinating Minds Talk about God by Jennifer Berne and R. O. Blechman, Rabbi Sameth’s essays include “Our Father, Who Art Our Mother” (Religion Dispatches) and “Is God Transgender?” (Op-Ed, The New York Times), links to which may be found on his website rabbimarksameth.com