Below are a list of resources that are from many different Christian faith traditions. These resources have been curated to provide a wide variety of good Christian content for adults. Catholic Resources are in the top section while resources from other Christian faith traditions are in the lower section.
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Naming Grace in the Domestic Church - Mary Pedersen shares her reflections about the domestic church and finding God in our families and our lives. Find tools and resources for parents, grandparents and faith leaders.
3-Minute Retreats (Loyola Press) - 3-Minute Retreats invite you to take a short prayer break right at your computer. Spend some quiet time reflecting on a Scripture passage.
Online Ignatian Prayer Adventure (Loyola Press) - This is an adapted version of the Spiritual Exercises. The eight week schedule would make it an excellent Lenten/Easter focus, but it can be promoted in your parish any time of the year. It is based on the longer retreat The Ignatian Adventure by Kevin O'Brien, S.J.
Online Retreat (Creighton University) - This is a retreat designed for people too busy to make a traditional retreat. People can experience a relationship with God coming alive in the midst of everyday life. A simple Guide each week places themes, reflections, questions and desires into the background of our busy lives. We learn to find greater focus and to let one week build upon another. Begin any time, but if a person begins the week of September 19th, the retreat fits with the Liturgical Year. People can make the retreat alone, with a spiritual director, or form a group to make the retreat together.
Online Retreats (Good Ground Press) - Good Ground Press provides online retreats that give people a chance to look at where you are in your journey to God, to be more aware of your journey, and of the loving God with whom you journey. Each retreat is in multiple parts and can be experienced over several weeks. Retreats include themes such as Memoir Writing, Women of Prayer and Justice, and Everyday Spirituality: A Busy Person's Retreat.
Why Every Mom and Dad Needs to Make a Retreat (and How to Make It Happen) (Peanut Butter & Grace) - Yes, you need to get away on a retreat, even though your kids are young and you’re too busy. Here’s why, and a few ideas for how to make it happen.
Weekly Video Clips from Strong Catholic Families/Strong Catholic Youth - The Strong Catholic Families Facebook page offers parents the opportunity to subscribe to their weekly video clips on parenting and the role of parents in nurturing the faith of the children. Go to the Facebook page and subscribe in order to receive the clips via email.
Busted Halo video clips on YouTube - Many playlists provided for adults to explore and learn about the Church and their Catholic faith.
Catholic Spirituality for Adults Series (RCL Benziger) - Ideal for use in adult faith formation. Each book is Scripture-based and explores a dimension of faith from both a spiritual and experiential point of view. Each book in the series reflects Christ’s active and loving presence in the world. The authors celebrate our membership in the mystical body of Christ, help us understand our spiritual unity with the entire family of God, and encourage us to express Christ’s mission of love, peace, and reconciliation in our daily lives.
Catholic TV Networks Video Playlist for World Meeting of Families on YouTube - Videos on forming faithful families, and on preparing for the World Meeting of Families.
Coach Parents (The Pastoral Center) - A range of resources, designed to help you coach parents to take a key role in the formation of their children from baptism, through the years before school, during sacrament prep, in middle school years, and right into youth and confirmation formation in junior and senior high.
Dynamic Catholic - Multiple resources for small group faith sharing, including Rediscovering Catholicism and The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic.
Family/Adult Learning (Our Sunday Visitor) - Articles and videos designed to help foster a deeper understanding of our Catholic faith. Topics include: understanding our Catholic faith, faith and spiritual growth, living the faith today, answering the call and more.
For Your Marriage (The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) - An initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, this site explores dating, engagement, marriage and parenting from a Catholic lens.
Growing Up Catholic (The Pastoral Center) - Growing Up Catholic offers a carefully tested and well-crafted sacramental formation process. It provides the immediate preparation for First Reconciliation, First Communion, and/or Confirmation in restored order.
Outside da Box Formation Videos on YouTube - Their tagline is "Bringing Jesus Christ to the young church through digital media". These videos are great for parents and young people to watch together.
VCat Video Catechism - A collaboration between Outside da Box and the Diocese of Wheeling, this video collections archives 40 video clips under the categories of Creed, Sacraments, Morality, and Prayer. For more information about the project read HERE.
Apostolic Exhortation - "The Joy of Love" (Vatican) PDF Document of Apostolic Exhortation
Catechist's Guide to Amoris Laetitia: The Joy of Love (Dr. Joseph White)
The Joy of Love: 9 Moments to Savor in Amoris Laetitia (Dr. Timothy O'Malley)
The Joy of Love Resources (The Pastoral Center)
Advent Awakenings/Reflexiones en Adviento (RENEW International) - The Advent Awakenings series is based on the three-year cycle of the Lectionary. Each book contains four sessions corresponding with the Gospels of the four Sundays of Advent. Each session includes reflections, prayers, action responses, and song suggestions, plus seasonal devotions that families can use at home to enrich their Advent experience.
Disciples On The Journey/ Discípulos en la Jornada (Lent) - Faith-sharing booklet for small groups - Thirty-six page booklet includes Sunday Reading, Opening Prayers, Commentaries on Sunday Readings, Saints of the Week, Faith-sharing Questions, Practical Ways to Live as Disciples, Closing Prayers and Rituals. Faith-sharing questions, ways of discipleship and closing prayers are specific to each group, adult, teens and family. Available in English & Spanish.
Exploring the Sunday Readings/Para meditar las lecturas dominicales (Twenty Third Publications) - A monthly newsletter with commentary on all three readings, plus reflection questions for individual and group use. The commentaries offer insight into ways the message of the readings can be applied in everyday life.
Alpha Online - Alpha is a series of sessions exploring the Christian faith, typically run over eleven weeks. Each talk looks at a different question around faith and is designed to create conversation. Alpha is run all around the globe, and everyone is welcome. Alpha is now offering an online version. They have produced three guides to assist in running Alpha Online: Moving Alpha Online, Hosting Alpha Online, and Alpha Online In Action.
Amplify Media (Subscription) - Amplify Media is a subscription streaming service with a vast library of videos and small group programs for adults.
BibleProject and The Bible Project TV - BibleProject is an animation studio that produces short-form, fully animated Bible videos, podcasts, and Bible resources to make the biblical story accessible to everyone, everywhere. People can now stream BibleProject videos on their television at home using the most popular streaming devices: Roku, Amazon Firestick, and Apple TV.
Chuck Knows Church (Videos) - Chuck Knows Church who helps people learn more about our church while inviting them to have deeper conversations. The Original Series is all the objects, symbols and terms we often hear in church. There are more than 100 episodes (2-6 minutes in length) available on a variety of topics that can easily be combined into multi-session programs.
Church Next - Online Adult Faith Formation - ChurchNext provides a wide variety of adult faith formation courses from expert teachers in Scripture, liturgy, and important Christian topics for a small fee. Adults can interact in a safe, online environment that’s convenient, engaging, and affordable. They also have videos on YouTube.
Daily Discipleship and Daily Faith Practices (ELCA) - Daily Discipleship and Daily Faith Practices are downloadable Bible studies based on the lectionary used at Sunday worship (Revised Common Lectionary). These two-page Bible Studies connect the Word of God with daily life experiences and strengthen faith practices in everyday living.
Faith Gateway - Faith Gateway is an online community for readers to discover great content and engage with Christian authors. Faith Gateway brings together content in many different forms: daily blog posts, book excerpts, devotionals, free downloads, videos, giveaways, contests, author chats, and more.
Forward Movement - Forward Movement provides resources online, and for smartphones and tablets: ebooks, downloadable resources, apps, online engagement opportunities through Twitter and Facebook, and even a Forward Day by Day podcast.
FULLER Formation - Whether you are seeking ways to grow deeper in your faith or looking to learn with your small group or congregation, FULLER Formation provides access to a variety of guided lessons from Fuller experts. With anytime-access to spiritual formation content, you can start engaging your faith on a deeper level today. The library of content created exclusively for FULLER Formation includes topics such as integrating your faith and work, and discerning your calling. There are over 60 resources. The subscription is $10 per month.
FULLER Studio - Fuller Studio provides free resources for churches, communities, and individuals committed to a deeply formed spiritual life. Guided by an editorial team and advisory board, FULLER studio produces and curates content drawn from our outstanding faculty as well as from the worldwide Fuller community, translating this wealth of scholarship into high-quality videos, podcasts, articles, and the award-winning FULLER magazine. All content on this website is free for your use.
Good Ground Press - Good Ground Press offers free online retreats for adults.
Group Publishing Free Resource Hub - Group Publishing’s Free Resource Hub has resources for children, youth, & families.
Learn25 - Learn 25 has over 450 titles in religion, psychology, spirituality, health and living, biographies, and more in video and audio courses, talks, audiobooks, and podcast-style programs. Their lectures fit conveniently into people’s schedule, learning for 25 minutes a day. Courses are taught by some of the world’s most inspiring professors, subject matter experts chosen by Learn25 and customers. All programs can be purchased separately, but they have made the audio versions of programs available through Learn25 Unlimited subscription.
Life.Church Open Network Small Group Studies - Life.Church Open Network makes available the entire library of Life.Church resources for adults including over 100 small group studies on a wide range of topics.
Living Well: Christian Practices for Everyday Life - Living Well: Christian Practices for Everyday Life presents twelve essential practices for a Christian way of life: Caring for the Body, Celebrating Life, Discernment, Dying Well, Eating Well, Forgiving, Keeping Sabbath, Managing Household Life, Participating in Community, Praying, Reading the Bible, and Transforming the World. Each chapter presents the Biblical foundation of the Christian practice and a variety of practical suggestions for living the practice in everyday life.
Milestones Ministry - Milestones Ministry has produced 18 Milestone resources for children and youth; and 12 Milestone resource for adults. They have also produced dozens of Milestone Moments that connect significant occasions in people’s lives (birthday, blessing animals) with the ongoing journey of faith. All are available as digital downloads.
The Pastoral Center - The online Pastoral Center produces a wide variety of digital faith formation resources for adults: individual study, small groups, retreats, or more.
Theology Live Podcast - Once a month, the 20s and 30s community of Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal Church gathers over food and drinks to engage Memphis' most compelling theological minds. The Theology Live Podcast incorporates the presentation and interaction for each program.
Theology of Work Project - The Theology of Work Project (TOW) is the deepest, largest, and most trusted source of biblical, theological, and pastoral material related to work. Most of our materials are available free of charge on this website. Their cornerstone resource, the Theology of Work Bible Commentary, is the only commentary covering what the entire Bible says about work.
Thoughtful Christian - The Thoughtful Christian.com is an ecumenical site dedicated to helping Christians and seekers understand, share, practice, and be challenged in their faith. Their digital offerings include downloads for individual and group studies for adults and youth. TheThoughtfulChristian.com also offers all-access subscriptions to downloadable group studies for adults and high-school youth.
Spirituality & Practice - This website is devoted to resources for spiritual journeys. The site is organized around "The Alphabet of Spiritual Literacy," 37 essential practices of the spiritual life. The "Spiritual Practices Toolkit" is compilation of links to articles, reviews, and instructions for more than 260 ways people practice their spirituality. The site includes dozens of e-courses on topics in spirituality, explorations into spiritual traditions, and reviews of books and films.
Yale Bible Study - The mission of the Yale Bible Study is to engage people in small group Bible study by providing studies of biblical books, deepened by insights from Yale Divinity School professors. There are over 25 bible courses of 8 sessions each with videos and study guide. These materials form an accessible, free, and deeply thoughtful and informed group Bible study program. All course materials available freely without registration; sign up for additional tools and discussion
YouVersion Bible Reading Plan(s) for Adults: Reading Plans Online - The YouVersion Bible App has dozens of Bible Reading Plans online and in the App. Adults can download the App (for iOS and Android) and then select a reading plan. You church can focus on a reading plan for all adults and then organize a Facebook Group to connect everyone.
The Work of the People—Films for Discovery and Transformation - The Work of the People is an eclectic, ecumenical, and growing collection of provocative short films and interviews with spiritual leaders and thinkers, authors, practitioners, and theologians. Films are available individually, in multi-session thematic series, in contemplative themes (visual prayers, poems, and benedictions), and as e-courses. There is a small fee for purchasing the films.