Wilderness Times

Rev. Bri-anne sits down with Cantor Michael Zoosman to talk about L'Chaim: Jews Against the Death Penalty and the importance of advocating against Captial Punishment.

Show Notes

Rev. Bri-anne sits down with Cantor Michael Zoosman to talk about L'chaim: Jews Against the Death Penalty and the importance of advocating against Captial Punishment.

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GUESTS
Cantor Michael Zoosman

BIBLE BITES
The Final Three Plagues
Bri-anne specifically reads:
Exodus 11 from outside the former Don Jail


MUSIC
See the Love - The Brilliance
Let Healing Swiftly Come - Bri-anne Swan

RELEVANT LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE

L'chaim: Jews Against the Death Penalty

Bo: Softening the ‘Hardened Hearts’ of Pro-Death Political Leaders

Gov. DeSantis’ Death Penalty Pledges for Holocaust Remembrance Day

“The Banality of Execution”


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Wilderness Times and Resistance Church are digital ministries of Jubilee United Church, an Affirming (2SLGBTQ+ positive) congregation of the United Church of Canada, committed to the work of being an anti-racist congregation, as well as Right Relationship with Indigenous Peoples.  The space on which we work and gather is the land of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples from across Turtle Island.

Resistance Church reaches out to those for whom traditional church models are not always relevant or accessible. Rest. Hope. Community. Subversive faith & radical love in response to extraordinary times.

Creators and Guests

Host
Rev. Bri-anne Swan
Minister with Jubilee United Church in Toronto, Canada.
Guest
Michael Zoosman
Chaplain and founder of L'chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty

What is Wilderness Times?

Wilderness Times is a partnership between Broadview and Bri-anne Swan.

The world feels messy. Wilderness Times leans into that mess with both faith and curiosity. It’s about learning to navigate uncertainty and remembering that the wilderness can be a place of holy transformation.

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Hi! I'm Bri-anne Swan, a diaconal minister with the United Church of Canada, serving East End United Regional Ministry in Toronto. I am also a singer-songwriter, a digital media creator, and a cook who should never be trusted with anything that requires timing.

Much of my work circles the death penalty as it’s practiced in the United States since it is such an extreme example of how easily those in positions of power scapegoat the ones who reveal our institutional failures.

That thread runs through a lot of the words she stitches together. Who is being forgotten? Who benefits? How does God call us to respond?

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