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Please join us for the Zoom launch of <span style="font-weight:700">“Interfaith Work and Interfaith Families: A Toolkit.”</span></div>
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This will be an opportunity to bring together interfaith organizations, interfaith families, multiple religious practitioners, and academics working in this field. The goal is to provide tools, and connections, to work more closely together in the future.</div>
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This project grew out of personal experience. Both of the authors have built professions inspired by our interfaith families and identities. Susan covers interfaith families as a journalist and author. Dalia is an academic, studying interfaith families in her
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<span style="font-weight:700">We created the Toolkit with these goals:</span></div>
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<div style="direction:ltr; line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">To share what we have learned through fulltime relationships across religious boundaries in our families–and/or through embodying more than one set of religious practices or ancestries.</div>
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<div style="direction:ltr; line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">To provide interfaith organizations with tools and encouragement to engage with interfaith families & practitioners, and highlight successful examples of this engagement.</div>
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<div style="direction:ltr; line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">To begin a conversation on how interfaith family members, interfaith organizations, and interfaith academic researchers can benefit from working together more closely.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">Launch Event Details:</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">Date:</span> Thursday November 14th</div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">Time:</span> 4pm-4:45pm GMT // 11am-11:45am EST </div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">Location:</span> Zoom (link to follow upon RSVP)</div>
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Please RSVP by registering for the Zoom link <span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); font-weight:700">
<u><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrduCspjMoGd0G_fSAECdenEl3ar9ucgwo#/registration" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWAa58260e0-1dc1-7dff-c2ca-48438b2af029" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">HERE</a></u></span>. And feel free
to share this invitation with colleagues or anyone else who may benefit from the toolkit.</div>
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In troubled times, this project is one way we have been able to focus on envisioning an interfaith sector that can persist and thrive–that will expand and transform. We look forward to gathering with you to create a new sense of community, at the launch. </div>
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Warmest wishes, </div>
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Susan Katz Miller & Dalia El Ariny </div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">About Susan Katz Miller</span></div>
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Journalist <span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><u><a href="http://susankatzmiller.com/" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWAe64f0d88-a679-2796-51ed-fdcac9f1651e" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Susan Katz Miller</a></u></span> is the author of
<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><i><u><a href="https://www.beacon.org/Being-Both-P1040.aspx" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWA68bad03a-1887-fa4c-e142-d2695b4ad70f" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One
Interfaith Family</a></u></i></span> (2015), and <span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">
<i><u><a href="https://www.uuabookstore.org/The-Interfaith-Family-Journal-P18453.aspx" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWA2fc601d2-605b-5fb6-9006-ae90aa1a299c" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">The Interfaith Family Journal</a></u></i></span> (2019).
She has been an interfaith families activist and speaker for more than two decades now.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">About Dalia El Ariny</span></div>
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Dalia El Ariny is the founder of <span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><u><a href="https://www.mymixedheritage.com/" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWA5e5ce35b-74b9-8ec5-9705-0273ef1c2b85" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">MyMixedHeritage</a></u></span> and
a PhD candidate in anthropology at SOAS University of London. <span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">
<u><a href="https://www.mymixedheritage.com/dalia-s-phd" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWA934bf368-6bb7-d814-3580-01b2bd99cf53" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Her ongoing research</a></u></span> explores how adults from interfaith backgrounds
construct belonging through everyday interactions with multiple religious traditions, and how these may inspire social activism.</div>
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