Why did God make everything but people made sidewalks?
Curiously Kaitlyn
Phil Vischer
5 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Most of us don’t give sidewalks a second thought. They’re ordinary, unremarkable, and everywhere. But Kaitlyn Schiess explains why even something as plain as a sidewalk can reveal profound truths about God and humanity.
Responding to this week's child’s question, If God made everything, why did people make sidewalks? Kaitlyn explores the Christian belief that God created the world out of nothing, how human creativity reflects the image of God, and why our best inventions are those that foster community. From Genesis to Revelation, she shows that sidewalks may be more than concrete paths under our feet; they may point us toward the city of God.
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0:55 - Theme Song
2:07 - Did God Not Make Sidewalks?
7:12 - God Made Everything… Out of Nothing
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20:05 - Sidewalks as Communal Creation
26:30 - Why is New Creation a City?
34:02 - End Credits
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| 0:56.7 | I don't know. That doesn't make any sense. |
| 1:04.6 | Curiously, Kate, yeah. |
| 1:10.0 | Welcome back to Curiously, Caitlin. |
| 1:12.5 | This week we are trying out a slightly different format. |
| 1:15.5 | We still have a kid question. |
| 1:16.9 | We do. |
| 1:17.4 | But I have producer Mike here with me to help answer the question. |
| 1:21.2 | We don't have a scholar guest. |
| 1:23.5 | But I've been studying theology for a long time. |
| 1:25.9 | Yeah, I was going to say. |
| 1:26.8 | You've been studying theology for a while. Caitlin, I'm not here to help answer the question. Okay, I'm here to help facilitate a conversation. This is curiously, Caitlin, after all, and I think we want to hear more from you. Yeah, great. Well, I love this because it has been a big part of my life for a long time to have questions from little kids and try and |
| 1:44.5 | find a way to answer them. And I pretty much always take the best questions that kids ask me in |
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