Bible Studies
Progressive Bible studies for people who want to explore Scripture with curiosity, context, and integrity.
This shelf includes adult and children's studies, six-week studies, individual books of the Bible, and thematic studies exploring history, culture, language, justice, and the difficult questions traditional studies sometimes avoid.
Designed for churches, small groups, families, and individuals who believe we don't have to be afraid of asking better questions about the Bible.
Explore the featured resources below, or browse the full Bible Studies shelf.
Seasonal
An 8-Week Elementary Social Justice Curriculum for Lent
Help kids discover that Lent isn’t only about giving something up—it can also be about putting love into action.
Lent for Kids: Love in Action is a complete eight-week curriculum that takes children from the Sunday before Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday. Each week connects a Bible story with a social justice theme and introduces children to a real young person who made a difference in the world.
Children explore fairness, generosity, creation and animal care, speaking up for others, welcoming neighbors, making sure everyone is seen, and discovering what can happen when people use their voices together. Along the way, they meet young changemakers including Ruby Bridges, Katie Stagliano, Bindi Irwin, Malala Yousafzai, Mari Copeny, Marley Dias, and Naomi Wadler.
Every weekly lesson includes a Bible verse, kid-friendly Bible story, featured young changemaker, discussion question, and simple hands-on craft designed to be completed during a 20–30 minute class. Most activities use basic supplies you probably already have—construction paper, markers, scissors, glue, and other inexpensive craft materials.
The curriculum concludes on Easter with a New Life, New Mission celebration that commissions the children to carry what they have learned beyond Lent, plus a printable My Lent Kindness Calendar for children to use throughout the season.
Best of all, the curriculum is undated and reusable. Because the lessons follow the Sundays of Lent rather than specific calendar dates, churches and families can use the resource again year after year. It is designed for elementary Sunday school, children’s ministry, classrooms, small groups, and family use.
Digital Download • 20 Pages • 8 Weeks • Undated & Reusable
A Mosaic Pieces resource for communities that want to help children learn an important truth: you don’t have to wait until you grow up to put love into action.
The Birth Story the Manger Scene Forgot
What happens when we tell the Christmas story through the eyes of the women who understood birth?
Christmas Through the Eyes of Women is a complete one-hour Christian Christmas worship service that moves beyond the polished, silent manger scene and returns Mary to her body, her voice, and her labor.
Luke tells us Mary gave birth, wrapped Jesus in cloth, and laid him in a manger. But the Gospel does not give us the familiar barn, donkey, ox, or peaceful porcelain scene that has shaped so much of Christian imagination.
This service asks us to listen again.
Drawing from the canonical Christmas story, historical context surrounding childbirth in the ancient Mediterranean world, and an early Christian tradition that imagined midwives at Jesus' birth, the service explores a Christmas filled with breath, bodies, women's knowledge, caregiving, vulnerability, noise, exhaustion—and holiness.
The complete worship resource includes:
• Full 60-minute Christmas worship service
• Mary-centered readings and prayers
• The Magnificat
• Accessible teaching about childbirth in Mary's world
• Historical context for ancient midwives and women's birth knowledge
• Introduction to the midwife tradition in the ancient Protoevangelium of James
• Dramatic Mary and Midwife readings
• “It Was Not a Silent Night” responsive reading
• Full sermon notes for “It Wasn't a Silent Night”
• Traditional/public-domain Christmas music suggestions
• Prayers for pregnant and postpartum people, pregnancy loss, infertility, birth workers, caregivers, bodily autonomy, and invisible labor
• A trauma-aware approach that does not define womanhood through pregnancy or motherhood
• Historical notes distinguishing Scripture, historical context, and later Christian tradition
• One-page worship-team service flow
The sermon invites congregations to keep the beauty of Christmas while looking beyond the porcelain Nativity.
Let Mary be tired.
Let the baby cry.
Let someone bring water.
Let somebody hold her hand.
None of this makes Christmas less holy.
It brings us closer to the heart of the Christian proclamation:
The Word did not become a Christmas card. The Word became flesh.
Designed with 12-point body text, clean white print-friendly pages, and simple purple and lavender accents for easy reading and economical printing.
Ideal for progressive churches, Advent and Christmas worship, women's ministries, feminist theology groups, clergy, chaplains, and congregations seeking a more embodied and human telling of the Nativity.
Digital download. No physical product will be shipped.
A four-week inclusive Advent curriculum for children ages 4–8 that connects the traditional Advent themes of Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love with caring for the world around us.
Designed for Children’s Church, Sunday School, or other children’s ministry settings, Advent in the Garden helps children discover that the Christmas story takes place right here in creation—among people, animals, earth, stars, food, weather, families, and communities. As we wait for Jesus, we learn to love the world God loves.
Each week includes an interactive Bible story, Creation Show & Tell, movement, age-appropriate wonder questions, a creation-care activity, a simple low-cost craft, an Advent challenge, and a closing blessing.
The four lessons are:
Week 1 — Hope: A World That Can Flourish
Week 2 — Peace: Peace for Every Creature
Week 3 — Joy: Let the Whole Earth Celebrate
Week 4 — Love: God Comes to Live Here
The curriculum also includes an optional Christmas lesson, a 24-day Creation-Care Advent Calendar, and printable family take-home cards.
Inclusion is woven throughout the curriculum. Children encounter a creation filled with different bodies, families, abilities, creatures, colors, ways of moving, and ways of growing—with the recurring reminder: Different is part of creation.
Designed with 12-point minimum body text, low-ink Advent-blue leader pages, and black-and-white family printables for affordable classroom copying.
Digital Download • Ages 4–8 • 4 Weeks + Christmas Lesson • Creation Care • Inclusive Children’s Ministry