Real Kids Real Faith is reimagining how children’s spirituality looks, sounds, and acts in this moment.

Our Vision

Growing up human today means facing big challenges and high expectations. So we’re rethinking how to help children respond creatively to whatever life brings their way.

Children’s spiritual lives don’t come prepackaged, but are stitched together by snuggles on the sofa, tears over a lost lovey, and gaming with friends next door. Their spirituality is also shaped by a parent’s job loss, learning challenges, and allergies that mean nobody else can have peanut butter.

The good, the bad, the really hard – it affects a child’s spirit. And we’ll address it all.

The ideas you’ll find here are research-based, motivated by a desire to see kids flourish in significant ways. This is important work, best done together. We’re glad you’ve joined us.

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Rainbow Spirituality

One of my favorite Taylor Swift songs is “You Need to Calm Down”. It’s a bouncy pop tune with a powerful message: hate speech against the LGBTQIA+ community needs to stop.

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  • Engaging Kids’ Senses with My City Speaks

    I have a birdsong app on my phone. When I tap the recording icon, it listens for birds and tells me their names and other information.

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    Story Reenactments

    As preschoolers, my children loved Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I would read the story and they would crawl around the floor pretending to eat everything in sight,

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  • Exploring Ohana with Lilo and Stitch

    My daughter and her cousin seem like an unusual pair. One is loud, outgoing, and adventurous, while the other is quiet and bookish.

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    Remembering with My Lost Freedom

    George Takei is an actor, best known for his role as Sulu on Star Trek.

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  • Wonder Wagons

    A blue spruce tree in my yard has grown too big and I planned to trim it back. But when I approached it with my clippers,

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    Wonder Walls

    Asking “why?” is stereotypical behavior for two-year-olds. Parents and caregivers lament the seemingly incessant queries of young children and laugh about the awkward timing of questions about intimate subjects.

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