For many people – including most foster youth – holidays are times of grief and loneliness. We reflect on how difficult it is to anticipate Christmas when it is not the joyful and hopeful season our culture and our church say it...

What if we imagined Jesus' second coming like the approach of San Francisco's famous fog (fondly known as Karl)? And what if we were agents of that right now?

We consider what it means to hear Jesus' warnings about the destruction that will usher in a new age from a city that has been defined by natural disasters. 

We wrestle with the notion of sacrifice in scripture, especially in light of a special event we held in Grace Cathedral two weeks ago. You can read more about that event on our blog: https://braidmission.org/story-of-grace/

As we hear the story of the healing of Bartimaeus, we reflect on how we can model Jesus's compassion by truly seeing others, especially those who have lost most of their connections in this world.

This week we had the honor of participating in the weekly forum at Grace Cathedral, which was a conversation with two former foster youth who contributed to the Foster Youth Museum.  Latrenda Leslie serves as a Kinship Navigator at Lincoln...

We reflect on Jesus' challenging words about how we use our wealth in light of our visit to the SOCAP conference this week.

As we anticipate the upcoming exhibit of the Foster Youth Museum at Grace Cathedral, we reflect on the real stories of foster youth as a modern depiction of the story of Job.    

We wrestle with instructions about prayer in the book of James, based on our own experiences of needing prayers of healing for ourselves and loved ones.

This week we reflect on what our own nomadic lifestyle at Braid has taught us about how we think in new ways about where the spirit of God dwells.The music you hear in our podcast is "Braid," written and performed by John Tirro.