Curiosity & Common Good creates inclusive learning resources for a kinder world. Our printable digital resources are designed for families, educators, churches, faith communities, and curious learners of all ages.
Explore Earth & Farm for educational resources, animal and sanctuary learning, gardening, food, cookbooks, and resources inspired by life at the sanctuary. Visit People & Belonging for practical resources supporting LGBTQ+ children and families, inclusion, advocacy, relationships, and creating communities where everyone can belong. Explore Faith & Wonder for progressive Christian resources, Bible studies, interfaith materials, worship resources, spiritual exploration, and tools for asking bigger questions about faith.
Whether you're looking for a classroom printable, a parent guide, a progressive Bible resource, or something to help your community grow in curiosity and compassion, our resources are created to be practical, inclusive, thoughtful, and ready to use.
Simple, seasonal recipes for when the garden gives you way more than you planned for.
Too Many is a practical garden-to-kitchen cookbook created for that familiar moment when the counter is suddenly covered in cucumbers, the zucchini will not stop growing, and somehow every tomato ripened on the same afternoon.
Instead of preserving, canning, or making the same recipe again and again, this collection helps you eat and enjoy the harvest while it’s fresh.
Inside you’ll find 60 recipes organized around six abundant garden vegetables:
Cucumbers — 10 fresh recipes, no pickles required
Tomatoes — 10 recipes without relying on canning
Zucchini — 10 ways to tackle the famously generous summer harvest
Jalapeños — 10 recipes that go far beyond salsa
Bell Peppers — 10 meals, sauces, dips, and more
Radishes — 10 recipes using roots, greens, and everything in between
Plus, there’s a 5-recipe “Too Many Everything” bonus section for those weeks when all six vegetables are ready at once.
The recipes travel across a variety of culinary traditions and flavor combinations. Each recipe includes an About the Tradition note to provide context about the dish or inspiration behind it, along with a Garden Note explaining how the recipe can help make good use of an abundant harvest.
From chilled summer soups and big garden salads to curries, tacos, pasta, fritters, grain bowls, dips, galettes, and comforting skillet meals, these are recipes designed for actually using vegetables—not decorating a plate with them.
65 recipes • Printable PDF • Instant digital download
A useful addition to the kitchen of gardeners, CSA members, farmers-market regulars, and anyone who has ever looked at a pile of zucchini and thought:
What am I going to do with all of this?
Earth & Farm
A Printable Digital Cookbook for Growing, Harvesting & Cooking with a Tea Garden
Turn the herbs and flowers growing just outside your door into something delicious.
The Tea Garden Cookbook is a beautifully illustrated, 58-page digital guide for gardeners and home cooks who want to grow herbs and edible flowers—and actually use what they harvest. From planning and tending a Zone 8 tea garden to drying your harvest and turning it into teas, syrups, cakes, cookies, scones, and more, this book brings the garden into the kitchen.
Inside you'll find practical guidance for growing and harvesting favorites such as mint, lemon balm, chamomile, lavender, bee balm, calendula, lemon verbena, tulsi, anise hyssop, sage, pineapple sage, and stevia. You'll also learn how to air-dry and dehydrate herbs and flowers, recognize when they're completely dry, store and label them properly, and prepare ingredients for homemade tea blends.
The recipe collection includes garden teas and blends, homemade herb and flower syrups, and tea-inspired cakes and bakes, including the colorful Rainbow Garden Mix.
This is a culinary garden cookbook—not a medicinal herbal guide. The focus is on growing, flavor, fragrance, color, seasonal cooking, and the simple pleasure of using what your garden gives you.
Your digital purchase includes: a 58-page printable PDF in US Letter size (8.5 × 11"), full-color watercolor botanical illustrations, practical garden and harvesting information, drying and storage instructions, and recipes designed for real home kitchens.
Created by Kelley Finch for Curiosity & Common Good Co.
DIGITAL PRODUCT: No physical item will be shipped. Your PDF is ready to download and can be viewed digitally or printed at home.
Amazing Horses — K–2
Discover what makes horses amazing! This printable K–2 Earth & Animals learning packet introduces children to horses through age-appropriate science, literacy, math, observation, creativity, and compassionate animal care.
Young learners explore horse body parts, needs, vocabulary, communication, counting, early math, fact-or-silly questions, and the ways horses and people are alike and different. Children are also invited to think about what horses need to live safe, healthy lives.
Designed especially for young learners with large easy-to-read text, generous writing and drawing spaces, widely spaced circle choices, and large coloring artwork. Student pages are black and white for easy, economical printing.
Perfect for K–2 classrooms, homeschool, farm units, animal studies, science centers, early finishers, and enrichment.
Digital PDF download • 16 pages • Grades K–2
Curiosity & Common Good — Inclusive learning for a kinder world.
Amazing Pigs — K–2
Discover just how amazing pigs are! This printable K–2 Earth & Animals packet introduces young learners to pigs through age-appropriate science, literacy, math, observation, creativity, and compassionate animal care.
Children will learn about pig bodies, behavior, senses, needs, and communication while practicing early reading, vocabulary, counting, addition and subtraction, drawing, and critical thinking. The packet also encourages children to think about what pigs need to live safe, healthy lives.
Includes large coloring and drawing spaces, easy-to-read text, black-and-white student pages for economical printing, and an answer key.
Perfect for classrooms, homeschool, farm units, animal studies, science centers, early finishers, and enrichment.
Digital PDF download • Grades K–2
Curiosity & Common Good — Inclusive learning for a kinder world.
People & Belonging
A Parent’s Guide to Support, Love, Advocacy & Belonging
When your child tells you they are transgender, you may want to say the right thing, ask a hundred questions, and figure out what comes next—all at once. This guide helps parents and caregivers begin with what matters most: keeping your child safe, loved, heard, and connected to you.
Written in a warm, practical, affirming voice, this printable guide walks families through both the first conversation and the days that follow. It offers concrete language parents can use, questions worth asking, common responses to avoid, and practical ways to advocate for a transgender child at home, school, church, and in the wider community.
Inside you'll find guidance on names and pronouns, privacy and coming out, supporting gender expression, navigating your own emotions as a parent, creating an affirming home, school and family advocacy, faith and religious questions, understanding transition, and responding to safety concerns. A simple 30-day parent plan helps turn good intentions into everyday support.
This resource is especially designed for parents who want compassionate, LGBTQ+ affirming guidance—including families who are also working through questions of faith, church, and belonging. It does not treat a transgender child as a problem to solve or a theological debate to win. Instead, it helps parents remain curious, keep learning, and protect the relationship they have with the child right in front of them.
12-page printable PDF • Instant digital download • Parent & caregiver resource • LGBTQ+ affirming • Faith-friendly • Practical scripts and action steps • Resource and further-learning section
Created by Curiosity & Common Good — Inclusive learning for a kinder world.
When You're Affirming but Your Spouse Isn't
A Parent & Caregiver Guide to Protecting Your LGBTQ+ Child While Navigating a Divided Home
What happens when you want to fully support your LGBTQ+ child—but your spouse isn't in the same place?
Disagreement between parents can quickly place a child in the middle. This practical, compassionate guide helps affirming parents protect their child's dignity and sense of belonging while navigating a spouse's questions, resistance, religious beliefs, or rejection.
The goal isn't to force two adults to agree overnight. It's to make sure your child doesn't have to carry the weight of the disagreement while the adults work through it.
Inside you'll find guidance for:
Keeping your child from becoming the referee between parents
Establishing minimum standards for respect at home
Setting boundaries around ridicule, rejection, threats, and forced secrecy
Talking with your spouse away from your child
Understanding what's underneath your spouse's resistance
Navigating disagreements about names and pronouns
Handling faith and theological differences
Protecting your child's privacy
Navigating grandparents and extended family
Recognizing when disagreement is becoming harmful or unsafe
Supporting your child when you cannot control your spouse's response
Finding appropriate outside support
Creating a practical 30-day family plan
The guide also includes sample language, conversation starters, household-boundary ideas, and a printable conversation worksheet for preparing for difficult discussions with your spouse.
You don't have to resolve every disagreement today to begin protecting your child today.
Printable PDF • Instant digital download • LGBTQ+ affirming • Parent & caregiver resource • Practical scripts & boundaries • Family support resource • Faith-friendly
Curiosity & Common Good
Inclusive learning for a kinder world.
Talking to Grandparents About Your LGBTQ+ Child
A Parent’s Guide to Family Conversations, Boundaries & Belonging
When your child comes out as LGBTQ+, you may quickly find yourself navigating another important question: How do we tell the grandparents?
This compassionate, practical guide helps parents and caregivers prepare for conversations with grandparents while keeping their LGBTQ+ child’s privacy, dignity, and emotional safety at the center.
Rather than expecting grandparents to understand everything immediately, the guide makes room for learning and questions—while drawing a clear distinction between needing time to learn and expecting a child to tolerate harmful behavior.
Inside, parents will find guidance for:
Asking your child before sharing their story
Deciding what the grandparent conversation is actually for
Starting the conversation with clear, compassionate language
Helping grandparents navigate names, pronouns, partners, and LGBTQ+ terminology
Responding when grandparents say, “But I love them...”
Handling religious and theological objections without making the child a debate
Preparing for holidays, birthdays, reunions, and family gatherings
Giving grandparents appropriate places to take their questions
Setting loving but firm family boundaries
Responding when a grandparent refuses to respect the child
Reassuring your child that adult family conflict is not their responsibility
Creating a practical before/during/after conversation plan
The guide also includes a special printable page written directly to grandparents with five things they can do immediately to help their LGBTQ+ grandchild feel loved and included.
Designed for families who want to preserve meaningful grandparent relationships without asking an LGBTQ+ child to hide, endure rejection, or become the family educator.
Printable PDF • Instant digital download • LGBTQ+ affirming • Parent & caregiver resource • Grandparent support • Faith-friendly • Conversation scripts • Boundary-setting tools
Curiosity & Common Good
Inclusive learning for a kinder world.
Finding an LGBTQ+ Affirming Church
A Practical Guide to Looking Beyond “Everyone Is Welcome”
Finding a church that says “Everyone is welcome” is easy. Finding one where LGBTQ+ people can truly belong, lead, love, marry, raise families, ask questions, and participate fully can be much harder.
This practical, LGBTQ+ affirming guide helps individuals and families look beyond welcoming language and determine what a church actually believes and practices.
Designed especially for LGBTQ+ people, parents and caregivers, families, and people returning to faith after church harm, the guide provides concrete questions and tools for evaluating a congregation before—and after—you walk through the doors.
Inside you'll find guidance for:
Understanding the difference between welcoming and affirming
Researching a church before visiting
Questions to ask pastors and church leaders
Determining whether LGBTQ+ people have full access to membership, leadership, marriage, and ministry
Evaluating transgender and nonbinary inclusion
Looking closely at children's and youth ministries
Recognizing theology that sounds welcoming but still requires LGBTQ+ people to change
Identifying common red-flag phrases
Evaluating the actual culture of a congregation
Visiting churches after experiencing church harm
Knowing when vague answers deserve more questions
The guide also includes a printable LGBTQ+ Affirming Church Checklist and a Church Comparison Tool so families can research and compare congregations side by side.
This isn't a guide to finding a church that will simply let LGBTQ+ people through the door. It's a resource for finding a community where they can bring their whole lives with them.
Printable PDF • Instant digital download • LGBTQ+ affirming • Faith-friendly • Parent & family resource • Church checklist • Comparison worksheet • Practical questions & red flags
Curiosity & Common Good
Inclusive learning for a kinder world.
Faith & Wonder
A progressive, inclusive guide to reading the entire Bible with history, context, power, and lived experience in view.
The Bible From the Margins is designed for readers who want to understand the Bible without leaving their questions—or themselves—at the door. Instead of treating individual verses as isolated rules, this guide helps readers explore each biblical book as a whole: what happens, what was happening historically, who held power, whose voices were pushed to the margins, and how certain passages have been used to cause harm.
The guide walks through all 66 books of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, in an accessible, visually engaging format. Each book includes a clear overview and outline, authorship and background, key themes, and a Historical World section that places the text in its ancient political and cultural setting. Readers also get a small glimpse into everyday life—from food and household work to lamps, pottery, farming, and other details that help the biblical world feel more tangible.
The heart of the resource is its From the Margins approach. Readers are invited to ask Who has power? Who is at the margins? and to examine interpretations that have been used against LGBTQ+ people, women, immigrants, poor people, disabled people, outsiders, and others whose experiences are too often overlooked. Rather than simply labeling difficult passages as harmful, the guide provides historical and literary context and invites readers to deconstruct the interpretation and read the text again.
The guide also includes key Hebrew and Greek words and a dedicated Reflection Journal page for each biblical book, with space for What I Thought Before I Read, What I Think Now, My Favorite Part, and The Part That Confuses Me. The goal isn't to tell readers what they must believe—it is to give them tools and room to read, question, reconsider, and grow.
Perfect for: progressive Christians, LGBTQ+ Christians and allies, people deconstructing or reconstructing faith, adult Bible studies, small groups, church education, seminarians, ministry leaders, and anyone who wants to encounter scripture with greater historical context, curiosity, and care.
269-page printable digital Bible study guide • Instant download • Curiosity & Common Good
A Progressive Bible Study of Belonging, Justice, and God’s Expanding Table
Who gets called an outsider—and who gets to decide where the boundaries of belonging are drawn?
People the Bible Called Outsiders is a progressive, inclusive Bible study that returns to the stories of people who lived at the edges of religious, social, political, economic, and cultural power.
Meet Ruth, Hagar, Rahab, the Ethiopian eunuch, Mephibosheth, Naaman, the Samaritan woman, the Syrophoenician woman, Zacchaeus, Onesimus, the enslaved girl at Philippi, and many others whose stories invite us to reconsider what we have been taught about insiders, outsiders, holiness, identity, and belonging.
Rather than simply retelling familiar Bible stories, this resource asks deeper questions.
Who had power? Who controlled the boundaries? What did words like unclean, sinner, foreigner, and eunuch mean in their historical worlds? What does the biblical text actually say—and what did later religious culture add to the story?
Special attention is given to the Ethiopian eunuch and other biblical eunuchs as part of trans and queer history, recognizing the long history of people whose embodied, legal, social, and gendered lives existed beyond a strict male/female binary.
Throughout the study, you'll explore historical and cultural context, important Hebrew and Greek words, disability and biblical interpretation, migration and foreignness, enslavement and economic power, purity and religious boundaries, gender diversity, and the complicated ways Scripture itself wrestles with who belongs.
Each study includes Their Story, Where Are We?, A Word Worth Knowing, Look Closer, Who Called Them an Outsider?, Who Got to Tell the Story?, Reading from the Margins, Why Their Story Matters, A Note from Pastor Kelley, Wonder → Reflect → Act, and Read It Yourself.
This isn't a Bible study about pretending every biblical boundary disappears.
It's about reading closely enough to notice that the Bible itself preserves arguments, tensions, challenges, and expanding visions of belonging.
One of the most powerful threads runs from biblical restrictions concerning eunuchs, through Isaiah's vision of eunuchs receiving an everlasting name in God's house, to the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts standing beside water and asking:
“What is to prevent me from being baptized?”
That question sits at the heart of this study.
People the Bible Called Outsiders is designed for individual study, progressive Christian small groups, adult Sunday school, clergy, church leaders, LGBTQ+ affirming communities, people experiencing deconstruction or reconstruction, and anyone curious about reading Scripture from the margins.
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Faith & Wonder — Explore faith with curiosity.
What happens when we stop treating the women of the Bible as supporting characters and start reading their stories closely?
Women the Bible Couldn’t Silence is a progressive, inclusive Bible study that brings the prophets, leaders, theologians, survivors, disciples, witnesses, and unnamed women of Scripture into clearer view.
Created for Curiosity & Common Good Co.’s Faith & Wonder collection, this resource is especially welcoming to adults who want to explore the Bible with curiosity—even if they have little Bible knowledge, have questions about traditional interpretations, or are returning to Scripture after church hurt or deconstruction.
You’ll encounter women including Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, Esther, Phoebe, Priscilla, Junia, Mary Magdalene, Hagar, Bathsheba, Tamar, Rahab, Lydia, the Samaritan woman, Philip’s four daughters, and women whose names were never preserved.
Each study goes beyond simply retelling her story. You’ll explore historical and cultural context, women’s lives in the ancient world, significant Hebrew or Greek words, details easily missed in the text, and the difference between what Scripture actually says and what later Christian tradition taught us to remember.
Special sections include Her Story / Their Story, Where Are We?, Women in Her World, A Word Worth Knowing, Look Closer, How She Was Silenced, Who Got to Tell the Story?, Reading from the Margins, Why Her Story Matters, A Note from Pastor Kelley, Wonder → Reflect → Act, and Read It Yourself.
The personal A Note from Pastor Kelley reflections connect these ancient stories with questions I have encountered in ministry, church life, leadership, justice, and my own years of reading Scripture.
This isn't a collection of perfect biblical heroines. Some of these stories are beautiful. Some are complicated. Some should disturb us. And some have been told in ways that blame women for circumstances the biblical text itself never blames them for.
The goal isn't to make every story inspirational.
It is to read carefully, ask better questions, recover voices we have overlooked, and wonder what these women might teach us about faith, power, justice, leadership, survival, and the world we are still building together.
Perfect for: individual study, progressive Christian education, small groups, adult Sunday school, women's groups, deconstruction and reconstruction, clergy and church leaders, or anyone curious about the women of the Bible.
Digital product: Printable PDF • Instant download • Includes Sources & Further Reading
Faith & Wonder — Explore faith with curiosity.
LGBTQ+ Weddings: An Inclusive Premarital Counseling & Ceremony Toolkit
Create meaningful, affirming weddings for LGBTQ+ couples with a complete resource designed specifically for pastors, clergy, chaplains, and wedding officiants.
This digital toolkit provides practical guidance for walking with a couple from their first premarital meeting through the wedding day. Rather than adapting a heterosexual marriage resource by simply changing a few words, the material intentionally addresses experiences and decisions that can be especially important for queer couples.
The toolkit includes a three-session premarital counseling guide covering communication and conflict, finances, household and emotional labor, intimacy, family relationships, chosen family, children and family planning, children from previous relationships, faith and religious experiences, evolving identities, safety and minority stress, legal protections, and preparing for a shared future.
It also helps clergy create a ceremony that reflects the couple themselves, including names, pronouns, relationship titles, family structure, chosen family, faith traditions, and the language they want used when they are pronounced married.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Three-session LGBTQ+ premarital counseling guide
Queer-specific counseling topics and clergy guidance
Names, pronouns & relationship-title guidance
Family boundaries & navigating unsupportive relatives
Honoring chosen family
Children & family-building conversations
Children from previous marriages or relationships
Finances, household responsibilities & emotional labor
Communication, conflict & repair
Intimacy & maintaining connection
Legal and practical protection conversations
Faith, religious experiences & evolving beliefs
Professional referral guidance when needs extend beyond pastoral care
Ceremony-planning guidance
Traditional Christian wedding ceremony
Interfaith wedding ceremony
Secular wedding ceremony
Symbolic and unity ritual ideas including handfasting/knot tying, unity sand, candles, ring warming, planting, remembrance, community blessings and more
ALSO INCLUDED: PRINTABLE COUPLE PREPARATION BOOKLET
The toolkit includes a separate Before We Get Married booklet that clergy can print, place in a folder, and give to the couple at their first premarital counseling meeting.
Rather than repeating the counseling questions, this booklet gives the couple practical things to do before getting married, including:
marriage-license preparation • wedding and first-year budgeting • beneficiaries and important legal documents • insurance • combining households • shared calendars • routine health preparation • planning a wedding-free date • establishing couple rituals • preparing family and chosen-family relationships • preparing when children are already part of the family • writing vows • gathering handfasting cords, unity sand, candles or other ritual materials • rehearsal-week preparation • a 48-hours-before-the-wedding checklist • and important post-wedding tasks.
The couple booklet has a clean white background, 12 pt+ text, and print-friendly formatting so pastors and officiants can easily reproduce a fresh copy for each couple.
DESIGNED FOR
Christian clergy • progressive and affirming churches • interfaith officiants • chaplains • independent wedding officiants • LGBTQ+ affirming ministry leaders
Digital PDF | Instant Download | Printable Resource
No physical product will be shipped.
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