In 2019 Will Bouvel was Director of Children’s Ministry at St. Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church in Chicago and started to wonder what an antiracist Sunday School could look like. Fast forward through the pandemic, George Floyd’s murder, and a chance encounter with Jen Holt Enriquez in a zoom class, and that dream became a reality. Will leaned on a love of Montessori based storytelling techniques and coauthored a six-part story that frames the problem of racism through faith - “The Lie that Caused Racism”. The language of The Lie opened up the idea of human hierarchies, and the storytelling has evolved to explore other difficult problems in our world through the lens of faith. Their work evolved into something new, Sowing Seeds in the Sand. Will is now an ordained minister in the Episcopal Church, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois with his husband, young daughter, infant son, and two cats.  


Sowing Seeds in the Sand