Breathe Life

This 3-day devotional is a calming reflection on the beauty of connecting with God and creation through our breath. Written by Abbey Barnosky for Our Bible App.

Can Aliens & Christianity Coexist?

So now we have UFO's? Are aliens even Biblical? Through the lens of Genesis let's examine and confront our relationship with God—a Creator who hasn't stoped creating.

The Shame Gospel

Christian communities may have implicitly taught us that our faith is at odds with normative human development. We’ve been bombarded by a theology that’s conditioned us to believe our natural selves will never be enough; making shame, guilt, and mistrust fester. But what would it look like to build a theology based on theories about healthy human development, drawing from the work of famous psychoanalyist Erik Erikson?

What if Jesus Was Neurodivergent

In our neurotypical, ableist world, the baseline assumption might be that Jesus didn’t have a single diagnosis. But what if Jesus was neurodivergent? What if scripture makes a compelling case that Jesus hyperfocused on special interests, didn’t always understand social norms, and had noticeable sensory differences? Let’s explore traits of Jesus that can sometimes show up in neurodivergent folks: ADHD’ers, Autistics, those with sensory processing differences, and more. 

Heaven’s Like A Video Game

Many of us have been taught that Heaven will be boring—a sea of robotic human clones. But what if Heaven’s more fun than our wildest dreams? What if it was more like Minecraft, The Sims, or Pokemon? Gamers and gaymers: This one’s for you.

Ditching Diet Culture

This 3-day devotional draws inspiration from Colossians on how to leave behind diet culture and further promote body positivity.

Making Room for Rest Amongst Work

This 3-day devotional urges us to redefine work in order for us to lean into God’s gift of rest. 

Grill Daddy: A Juneteenth Devotional

Juneteenth contains a multitude of meanings because it is both a celebration and a damnation of America's torrid history with race. Let's take 3 days to journal, lament, and celebrate this holiday.

God Has Healthy Boundaries

God has theologically been framed as emotionally entrapping or uncaring and normalizing of toxic relationship patterns. These faith concepts cause us to model unhealthy boundaries. What would it look like for God to have healthy boundaries – and wants us to practice the same? 

Finding Our Jethros

This 3-day devotional invites us to assess our needs and whom we can let into our lives to help us meet them. Use this guide to help navigate Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as illustrated through Moses receiving advice from his father-in-law, Jethro.

God’s Parenting Skills

We’ve all heard it: The depiction of God as parent. But how do we reconstruct that model given all these new ideas about the afterlife, universalism, gentle or responsive parenting, and emotional co-regulation? Let’s explore what God’s parenting skills might look like. 

Vindicate Me, Lord

This 4-day devotional is a conversation on deliverance between the Lord's Prayer and Psalms. 

The Mindfulness of Peace

What does it mean for God to be called the Prince of Peace? This 3-day devotional is a meditation on peace and how finding it can help us move from darkness to light. What are your personal peace indicators?

Protecting God's Creation

This 3-day devotional explores how we can be good stewards of the earth. By the end of this devotional you might see this blue marble in a new light and become both challenged and motivated to protect it.

Doubting Thomas: An Abolitionist Devotional

This 3-day devotional is an investigation of police brutality and interrupting white supremacy using the story of Doubting Thomas.

Job: My So-Called Friends

Navigating friendships can be tough. This 8-day devotional examines the relationship between Job, his friends, and a few other characters in the Bible. These daily reflections may help you find peace in some of your most trying relationships.

Holy Nights: Advent Through John

This 41 day devotional guides us through the 2022 Advent season all the way up to Epiphany 2023. Through a deep reflection of John 1:1-18 co-authors Aaron Ochart and Julie Hebert bring us this timely meditation.

Holy Anger

This 4-day devotional is an exploration of anger as a useful, necessary, and holy emotion. In what ways can we use anger in our lives to create holy change? In what ways can this emotion serve us?

Naming God on Our Own Terms

This 3-day devotional dives deep into Hagar's story and explores how we can create names for God that are authentic to our experiences.

Revelations and Blackness: Making the Truth Known

This 5-day devotional draws parallels between Revelations and Black spirituals to show how both can teach us how to trust ourselves.