Bri-anne Swan (she/her)

When God is Silent From Luke’s gospel to a cellar wall in wartime. This Remembrance Day...

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I liked it better when I didn’t care so much about baseball.

A reminder on Halloween: The carceral system is a real-life monster, and it's full of tricks – no treats.

Here are 5 facts about mass incarceration that are actually frightening 🧵

I just can't even. 🤦‍♀️

We made our son go to bed after the 12th inning. He was still a wreck this morning.

My husband is a go to bed at 9pm kind of guy. The World Series is going to kill him.

The fact that more people aren’t freaking out that the US military is being subsidized by a personal friend of the POTUS is bananas. It’s just proof that *everything* is bananas and our gasted flabbers have been spread too thin.

Dreams that Break the Drought In this poetic reflection, Rev. Bri-anne dreams of rain that falls on...

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💯 The list is looooooong.

If you're in Toronto on Nov 3, join East End United Regional Ministry for a Community Conversation about Food Security.

Doug Ford doesn't hate poor folks. He's indifferent. That's even worse. His current moves to eradicate protections in the Landlord Tenant Act make that clear.

It's all related.

(But, I also hate that Ontario quoted Regan as if he's some kind of model to follow...)

Wait until they hear how often people quote, "Ask not what your country can do for you..."

Because we know what a great plan it is when we count on the “market” to fix things. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Ontario bill would look at ‘alternative options’ for ending residential leases, scrap Toronto green roof bylaw. Here are the highlights The Ford government has tabled an omnibus bill that would make changes to a whole suite of laws and regulations, from green roofs to tenant evictions and driver’s licences.

Maybe…like getting rid of rent control…

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Ok, Canadians. I love that the Jays are in the WS. But, we need to pay attention to pieces of legislation being introduced right now in case the various levels of government think they can take advantage of our distraction.

Carney says Canada should prepare for ‘sacrifices’ as he outlines plan for budget | CBC News Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canadians should be ready for some “challenges” and “sacrifices” in a speech outlining some of his government’s priorities for the upcoming budget.

Who will have to make the sacrifices? Could some billionaires make some of those sacrifices?

Despite October being Clergy Appreciation Month, this is not, in fact, a special taco deal for pastors.

Nor is it a special deal for tacos made out of pastors.

el sigh

Watched the Sixth Sense with my kids tonight. At the end they both, in unison, cried out, "Wait, he's DEAD!?!?!"

Son #2: "I'm shook."

Yeah, you and everyone else in the 90s, dude.

Every time my kids (13 & 11) ignore me, I start counting to 5 in my Mom Voice™. They always move by 3.

Thing is…I’ve never made it to 5.
None of us know what happens at 5.

It’s Schrödinger’s consequence.

I need to invent something fast before they call my bluff.

Tool of Fear: Executions on the rise as death penalty used to show the heavy hand of the state On the occasion of the 23rd World Day Against the Death Penalty on 10 October 2025, Amnesty International joins the World Coalition Against the Death

Happy World Day Against the Death Penalty.

Spoiler: It's not a day they observe in Texas.

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Toronto condo's lawsuit against street ministry is deeply cruel | Broadview Magazine Blaming Sanctuary Ministries for the housing and drug crises is like blaming the first-aid tent for the war

Blaming Sanctuary Ministries for the housing and drug crises is like blaming the first-aid tent for the war, writes Bri-anne Swan.

My poor brother has a hard time when his Toronto teams are in the playoffs.

Toronto condo's lawsuit against street ministry is deeply cruel | Broadview Magazine Blaming Sanctuary Ministries for the housing and drug crises is like blaming the first-aid tent for the war, writes Bri-anne Swan.

"It’s the most obvious math in the world. When you have a home, you are far less likely to be beaten, robbed, raped or killed than the person trying to sleep on the sidewalk beneath your window."

My latest piece for @broadviewmedia.bsky.social

Thanks, Dan. That episode was bonkers, but not even as bonkers as this situation has become!

‘A battle for who belongs’: Downtown Toronto condo suing charity next door for $2.3 million A downtown Toronto condominium corporation is suing its next-door neighbour, a church and drop-in centre that has served unhoused, underhoused, and marginalized people since 1992.

This is such BS I can't stand it.

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Score one for the water. Score one for love. Rev. Bri-anne weaves together a love story, a community’s fight to...

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An Oracle Concerning Canada Why our tidy national myth falls apart under the prophets' gaze

The Oracle I wrote a few years ago as an assignment for my "Isaiah and the Prophets" course with the Lutheran Theological Seminary (one of my favs).

The reflection...for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation...

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Before the Parking Lot Rev. Bri-anne Swan invites us back to the first liturgy of Genesis...

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Cloud Illusions On this Cosmic Sunday, we turn our gaze to clouds, golden hour light,...

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Martha, Martha Before Jesus even speaks, there is a woman quietly falling apart in the...

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