Everyone loves
free stuff.
(Especially if it helps?!)
Our goal with Everything Happens is to create rich language and vibrant community that sustains us when life comes apart. Below, you’ll find categories that may be good starting points for you. Inside are a mix of podcasts, blessings, support guides, and bonus resources that we hope will be useful.
Browse by Topic
Select the starting point that best fits what you need today. Inside, you’ll find curated blessings, podcast conversations, free resources and more.
Featured Blessings
Support Guides
Curated blessings, conversations, and encouragement for when life comes apart.
Devotionals
seasonal Devotionals
Free Advent Devotionals
Check out our free Advent devotionals, reflections, resources, and guides as we celebrate Advent and Christmas together.
seasonal Devotionals
Free Lent Devotionals
Looking for a ritual to guide your Lenten practice? Check out our Free Lent guides, reflections, and devotionals.
Free Downloads
You are Loved
When everything felt like it was falling apart, my sister Maria said, “You are loved. You are loved. You are loved. You are here. You will not disappear.” I held onto those words like a lifeline—and if you need that reminder too, you can download this lock screen and carry it with you, like a little blessing in your pocket
Walking Toward the Storm
Sometimes life falls apart in ways you didn’t see coming. The future you imagined? Gone. Your carefully constructed plans? Scattered. What now?
Excerpt from Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!
Formatted like a prayer book, The Lives We Actually Have features blessings for the full range of human moments. Check out this free excerpt.
Life is so beautiful. Life is so hard. Printable
Life is so beautiful. Life is so hard. For Everyone. Download this beautiful graphic to print and frame or use as a screensaver.
Discussion Guide for No Cure For Being Human
How do we move forward when there is no going back? This free guide includes an invite template, group guidelines, and discussion questions.
Discussion Guide for Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved)
Use this free discussion guide whether you are reading solo, with a book club, in a Sunday school class, or among friends.
You Are Not The Bad Thing Printable
Download this beautiful graphic to print and frame or use as a screensaver as a way to remind yourself that you are not the bad thing.
Excerpt from The Lives We Actually Have
Formatted like a prayer book, The Lives We Actually Have features blessings for the full range of human moments. Check out this free excerpt.
Good Enough Excerpt
Good Enough: 40ish Devotions for a Life of Imperfection gives permission for all those who need to hear that there are some things you can fix—and some things you can’t. And it’s okay that life isn’t always better.
A Blessing for Being Human
I’ve put together a little blessing for us—a blessing for being human. May these words offer you a bit of courage to live inside of your life… just as it is. Imperfect. Often heartbreaking. And still, somehow, beautiful.
7 Prayers for Uncertain Times
May these prayers comfort and hold you when there is nothing else to do but pray. May they give you a bit of courage to live here, in all of your beautiful, terrible humanity again today.
COURSE
While It Was Yet Dark: A 7-Session Easter Practice
Each session includes a short video teaching (6-9 minutes) from Kate on themes of interdependence, limited agency, precarity, and joy, discussion questions, and printable downloads to use with friends. Together, we will explore how to live into joy in the midst of uncertainty.
Discussion Guides
Free discussion guides for our favorite episodes and books to use with your churches or groups or book clubs.
Loving Teenagers Well
A free six-week series meets anyone who is right in the thick of parenting or caring for teenagers, offering practical insights, honest conversations, and a little humor to remind us: you are not alone.
How do we talk to our kids about hard things?
Free group discussion guide on the kind of compassion that could ignite a spiritual revolution with Rainn Wilson and Kate Bowler.
Brave, Beautiful, and Good Things – Discussion Guide
Free group discussion guide on the kind of compassion that could ignite a spiritual revolution with Rainn Wilson and Kate Bowler.
Does Everything Happen For A Reason? A Lesson for Youth
Free youth lesson exploring the question of if everything happens for a reason. In this lesson, we start to slightly push against the cultural notion that requires us to find meaning in all tragedy.
Suspicious of Joy – Discussion Guide
Free group discussion guide on finding hope and joy in the midst of difficulties with the Archbishop of Canterbury and Kate Bowler.
The Mystery of God – Discussion Guide
Free group discussion guide on grappling with the mysteries of God with N.T. Wright and Kate Bowler.
Becoming Stonecatchers – Discussion Guide
Free group discussion guide on being agents of change in our communities with Bryan Stevenson and Kate Bowler.
The Art of Presence – Discussion Guide
Free group discussion guide on practicing presence with theologian and nurse John Swinton and Kate Bowler.
