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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Encouraging Kids to Follow in MLK’s Footsteps

This year (2025), the U.S. presidential inauguration and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day both fall on Monday, January 20.

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  • Teaching Young Children to Journal

    As preschoolers, my children loved the ‘books’ their teachers created for them to use. They were simple constructions: a construction paper cover stapled to several full-sheet pages that had a big blank box filling the top two-thirds of the page and 3-4 well-spaced lines in the bottom third.

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    Exploring Spiritual Concepts through Movement

    For more than a century, developmentalists assumed that children were unable to understand spiritual and religious concepts. They based this thinking on the abstract and complex nature of spiritual ideas,

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  • Exploring Compassion with A Mystery in the Forest

    As children, my next youngest sibling and I loved to ride our bikes together. Our six-year-old brother would beg to go with us but he wasn’t allowed to leave the yard.

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    A New Year’s Meditation

    New Year’s Day is traditionally a time to look back on the past year and forward into the future.

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  • Managing Holiday Emotions

    “But mom,” wailed my daughter, “I wanted to put the glitter stars on the tree.” She collapses onto the sofa and bursts into tears.

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    Exploring Diverse Holidays with The House Without Lights

    Holiday lights are a staple of many winter traditions. Solstice candles, Hanukkah menorahs, colorful Christmas strings, and Kwanzaa kinaras cast dancing light in the darkness.

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