About Bake & Pray™

From God’s provision of manna in the wilderness to Jesus’ miraculous multiplication of loaves, bread functions throughout Scripture as a sign of God’s presence and provision. As a professional baker and practical theologian, I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on the connection between the dough that clung to my hands at work and the bread blessed and pressed into my palm at church, ultimately seeing that they both were tangible reminders that God was with me and that God cared.

I developed the Bake & Pray™ method in 2016 as a way to teach others to meet God through the process of baking bread. In the years since, I’ve taught workshops at churches, schools, and retreat centers all over North America. There’s no greater joy than seeing the look on someone’s face when they realize that they can make a loaf of bread.

The Bake & Pray™ method focuses on learning breadmaking in terms of liturgy rather than recipe, allowing the rhythms of rest and repetition to shape the baker as the baker shapes their bread. Whether a sourdough master or scared of yeast, the Bake & Pray™ method will open your eyes to God’s gift of bread in a new way—you’ll never bake or break a loaf the same way again.

Bake & Pray: Liturgies and Recipes for Baking Bread as a Spiritual Practice

I’m thrilled to introduce my new book, Bake & Pray: Liturgies & Recipes for Baking Bread as a Spiritual Practice. This book was born out of eight years teaching and developing the Bake & Pray™ method—I’m thrilled now to make the method accessible to you in book form.

Weaving baking science and technique together with theological reflections drawn from a wide range of Christian traditions, this book will:

  • teach you how to incorporate bread making into the rhythms of your busy life

  • reveal the ins-and-outs of bread baking while unlocking the spiritual parallels woven into each loaf

  • provide breadmaking liturgies and historical recipes to bake through a variety of liturgical holidays and seasons

  • show how to incorporate baking as a form of prayer in our lives.

As you follow the steps to bake bread―whether you are a lifelong baker or intimidated by the thought of yeast―you will learn something about the character of God and the life of faith. In Bake & Pray, you will get not only a practical understanding of how to bake bread, but also receive a deeper appreciation for the ways God can shape you in the process.

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Need some more visual support as you bake? Check out the book’s video companion!

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