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  • How to do Lent as an adult

    Two of the most loved series on Barefoot Evangelist are How to Lent for Teens and How to Lent with Kids. I created them to be simple, honest, and accessible for real families. They are built around the Pillars of Lent – giving, praying, fasting, and reading scripture – and filled with practical ideas you can actually use.…

  • Sunday Reflection – February 1, 2026

    Blessed are you Matthew 5 When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. 2 And he began to speak and taught them, saying: 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. 5 “Blessed…

  • Kids Korner: We are blessed (February 1st)

    Read Matthew 5:1-12 with your family. The message of Jesus, in fact the message of almost the entire Bible, is that God is with us always and that God wants us to work together to create a world of justice and abundance for all of us. Even as small children, we have a sense of…

  • Does God have a belly button?

    Over the years as a pastor, preacher, and children’s Christian educator, I have fielded questions from just about everyone. Women wanting to understand their place in the early church. Teenagers hungry for a faith that shows up in the streets as much as in the sanctuary. Seniors standing at the edge of life, wondering what…

  • Sunday Reflection – January 25, 2026

    Replay from March 2024 Calling the first named male disciples Matthew 4 12 Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. 13 He left Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, 14 so that what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: 15 “Land of…

  • Kids Korner: Meeting Jesus (January 25th)

    Read Matthew 4:12-23 with your family. Jesus had many people following him from place to place. Women, men and children went to hear Jesus when he spoke, and some of them went with him when he moved to another town or village. In this story we hear about the first four men who were called…

  • Efforts to erase the women of the Bible

    One of my endless frustrations with conservative minded preachers and writers in all Christian denominations, is their almost pathological need to erase or reduce the women of the Bible. Their self-defence of “keeping within the Biblical narrative” suddenly disappears with this form of misogyny. When I was in Germany several years ago, I was at…

  • Sunday Reflection – January 18, 2026

    Replay from March 2024 The Messiah has come John 1 In the beginning was the one    who is called the Word.The Word was with God    and was truly God.2 From the very beginning    the Word was with God. 3 And with this Word,    God created all things.Nothing was made    without the Word.Everything that was created4     received its life from him,and his life gave light    to…

  • Kids Korner: Meeting Jesus (January 18th)

    Read John 1:1-42 with your family. This is a very long passage, but it tells the story of folks meeting Jesus from the view of the Gospel of John. Each Gospel has a slightly different telling of the story of Jesus, and the Gospel of John lets everyone know that Jesus is the Messiah right…

  • Being like the earliest Christians

    I’ve been part of a few conversations lately about what the church looked like in the very beginning. Now, as an historian these are not unusual conversations to be part of, I am often talking about what the Christian community looked like at various times in history. What is unusual is who are having these…