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On Being Stubborn
At every mentor training, we work together to brainstorm a list of the qualities a Braid mentor should strive to possess. At the most recent training, someone...
Missing the Mudslide
I had occasion this week to get caught up in a real honest-to-god California mudslide. It occurred on I-80 as Rebecca and I were driving to a...
Salt of the Earth
A friend of mine who is a chef once explained that salt is the only seasoning that makes a food taste more like itself. All other seasonings and...
Addressing Chaos
It has been my routine over many years to begin each day by reading two publications. The first is a piece or pieces of scripture. It is...
Take the Next Step
Like many of you, I participated this weekend in the Women's March, along with 100,000 of my closest friends in Oakland and millions of others around the...
Reflections on 2016
It has been a good year at Braid. We are writing from our new offices here in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco. The neighborhood in which...
United In Mission
Like many of you, I have been struggling, in the aftermath of the presidential election, to make sense of the deep divide in our country. The day...
Georgia On Our Mind
This fall we were invited to Atlanta to share the story of Braid. Our dear friend Martha Sterne is serving in her retirement as the interim priest at All...
My Closed Adoption and the Movement to Change the System
Serena is a member of California Youth Connection, an organization that helps foster youth learn leadership and advocacy skills. She originally wrote this piece for The Chronicle of...
The Creative Canvas of Braid
Last week we treated ourselves to an afternoon at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The SFMOMA, which recently reopened after a major renovation and addition,...