The Bethany Life

The Bethany Life is a guide to building a small, intergenerational, covenant-based community that reflects the love, vulnerability, and shared rhythms of Jesus’ closest friendships.

Kelly Kannwischer

Bethany is where you belong. The Bethany Life is both my story and also a guide for designing your life with deeper connection, practical formation, and a countercultural way to live out your faith—in a circle of families beyond the church building.

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Covenant friendship

In a world of transactional relationships and fragile commitments, Bethany invites us into covenant friendship—the kind of rooted, sacrificial love that holds space for both joy and suffering, modeled after Jesus’ bond with Mary, Martha, and Lazarus.

Countercultural Witness

Rather than chasing platform or performance, The Bethany Life calls us to embody a quiet resistance: a countercultural way of living marked by presence over productivity, depth over noise, and shared tables over curated feeds.

Shared Formation

Bethany isn’t just found—it’s built—through rhythms of shared formation, where spiritual practices, ordinary moments, and life’s disruptions all become sacred ground for growing together in Christlikeness.