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    Do Justice Podcast

    Part social commentary, part spiritual reflection, part biblical study, and part prayers for an aching world, the Do Justice Podcast examines the intersection of faith and the secular through a faith-based, social justice lens. http://www.shiningwatersregionalcouncil.ca Formerly the Living Presence Podcast.
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    Episodes (50)

    Invitation to Listen: Wilderness Times

    Invitation to Listen: Wilderness Times

    Hi Friends! The Do Justice podcast feed has been dormant for more than a year now.  There will be no new episodes posted to this feed.  However, I wanted to let you know about a new podcast project I’ve been working on called, Wilderness Times.  The following is the trailer for the show. Simply search whatever service you are using to listen here right now and hit subscribe.

    Wilderness Times website

    Do Justice Podcast
    en-caSeptember 20, 2022

    Asian in Canada

    Asian in Canada

    May is Asian Heritage Month. In this week's episode, we hear from Tina Conlon, Minister for Davenport Perth Community Ministry, with her reflection titled, "Asian in Canada". We also hear a production from the United Church titled "Struggle and Grace".

     

    RESOURCES

    Shining Waters Regional Council - Asian Heritage Month
    United Church of Canada Intercultural Ministries
    Asian in Canada by Tina Conlon

     

    MUSIC

    Emorie and Mia & Jonah.

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    en-caMay 07, 2021

    He Breathed His Last: Crucifixion & Capital Punishment

    He Breathed His Last: Crucifixion & Capital Punishment

    Jesus is executed, just like so many men and women around the world.  What does it mean to endorse the punishment used to kill Christ?  What are the ways people with profound truths are scapegoated?

    SCRIPTURE:  Mark 15:21-41 The Death of Jesus

    MUSIC: "Friday Morning" by Sydney Carter, "Underground" by Ainsley McNeaney, "Courage" by The Tragically Hip

    REFERENCES IN THIS EPISODE:

    Good Friday 2018: What if God Was One of Us? (90s Passion)

    The Death Vote - Maclean's Magzine
    March 17, 1987

    Image of Gurney by Ken Piorkowski   and used under license Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic

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    Contagious Hope: Episode 6 (Pay it Forward)

    Contagious Hope: Episode 6 (Pay it Forward)

    Lenten reflection by the Rev. Alexa Gilmour from Toronto.  On this sixth week of Lent, Rev. Alexa speaks with Sara Hildebrand of the Love My Neighbour Project - an interfaith partnership with UNICEF Canada to pay it forward. They are inviting every Canadian that gets a vaccine to buy one for someone in economically depressed countries. For approximately $10 each, every vaccinated person in Canada can help speed up the vaccine rollout for all global citizens (cost to be confirmed by UNICEF)

    Contagious Hope was created with assistance from the McGeachey Senior Scholarship, administered by the United Church of Canada Foundation.  The series is edited by Peter Restivo.  For feedback, please email gilmouralexa@gmail.com

    do justice. is an offering from Shining Waters Regional Council, part of the United Church of Canada.

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    en-caMarch 25, 2021

    Contagious Hope: Episode 5 (Sanctuary)

    Contagious Hope: Episode 5 (Sanctuary)

    Contagious Hope is a podcast series specially created for Lenten reflection by the Rev. Alexa Gilmour from Toronto.  On this fifth week of Lent, Rev. Alexa speaks with Greg Cook and Lorraine Lam, outreach workers at Sanctuary Ministries of Toronto; a place in the heart of Toronto where you can go to be seen and celebrated, walked with and cared for. Guided by the Gospel, the heart and centre of this community are the very people who are often excluded in the mainstream; those experiencing poverty, lack of housing, addiction and mental health crisis. At Sanctuary, they can get meals, health clinic support, art programs, street outreach, Sunday services, and so much more.

    Contagious Hope was created with assistance from the McGeachey Senior Scholarship, administered by the United Church of Canada Foundation.  The series is edited by Peter Restivo.  For feedback, please email gilmouralexa@gmail.com

    do justice. is an offering from Shining Waters Regional Council, part of the United Church of Canada.

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    en-caMarch 18, 2021

    Contagious Hope: Episode 4 (Front Line Health Care)

    Contagious Hope: Episode 4 (Front Line Health Care)

    Episode Notes

    Contagious Hope is a podcast series specially created for Lenten reflection by the Rev. Alexa Gilmour from Toronto.  On this fourth week of Lent, Rev. Alexa speaks with Dr. Aathish Iyappa who works at the Nair Hospital in Mumbai (Bombay) India. He consulted on the first case of COVID19 to be diagnosed in Mumbai. His 1600 bed hospital was covered to an 1100 bed COVID hospital. Dr. Aathish speaks of the lack of drugs in the early days in the early days of the pandemic, the hospital filling up and having to turn patients away, as well as the losses and miracles of life he has witnessed throughout the pandemic.

    Contagious Hope was created with assistance from the McGeachey Senior Scholarship, administered by the United Church of Canada Foundation.  The series is edited by Peter Restivo.  For feedback, please email gilmouralexa@gmail.com

    do justice. is an offering from Shining Waters Regional Council, part of the United Church of Canada.

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    Contagious Hope: Episode 3 (Safety from Intimate Partner Violence)

    Contagious Hope: Episode 3 (Safety from Intimate Partner Violence)

    Contagious Hope is a podcast series specially created for Lenten reflection by the Rev. Alexa Gilmour from Toronto.  On this third week of Lent, Rev. Alexa speaks with Saima Mafat and Hanan Baalbaki from Nisa Homes. Saima and Hanan support Muslim women and children seeking safety from intimate partner violence across Canada.

    Contagious Hope was created with assistance from the McGeachey Senior Scholarship, administered by the United Church of Canada Foundation.  The series is edited by Peter Restivo.  For feedback, please email gilmouralexa@gmail.com

    do justice. is an offering from Shining Waters Regional Council, part of the United Church of Canada.

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    Contagious Hope: Episode 2 (Long Term Care Crisis)

    Contagious Hope: Episode 2 (Long Term Care Crisis)

    Contagious Hope is a podcast series specially created for Lenten reflection by the Rev. Alexa Gilmour from Toronto.  On this second week of Lent, Rev. Alexa speaks with Clive Anderson, a trauma responder who has been present at violent catastrophes such as the 2018 van attack in Toronto. In the first months of the COVID 19 pandemic, Clive was called to no less than 20 long-term care facilities to offer assistance to staff and families.

    Contagious Hope was created with assistance from the McGeachey Senior Scholarship, administered by the United Church of Canada Foundation.  The series is edited by Peter Restivo.  For feedback, please email gilmouralexa@gmail.com

    do justice. is an offering from Shining Waters Regional Council, part of the United Chruch of Canada.

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    Contagious Hope: Episode 1 (Five Oaks Centre)

    Contagious Hope: Episode 1 (Five Oaks Centre)

    Contagious Hope is a podcast series specially created for Lenten reflection by the Rev. Alexa Gilmour from Toronto.  On this first week of Lent, Rev. Alexa speaks with Michael Shewburg, Executive Director of the Five Oaks Centre in Paris, Ontario. Michael describes how, in the early days of the pandemic, Five Oaks pivoted from its normal retreat offerings to being a place where those newly arriving in Canada, often as migrant workers, could safely isolate and quarantine.

    Contagious Hope was created with assistance from the McGeachey Senior Scholarship, administered by the United Church of Canada Foundation.  The series is edited by Peter Restivo.  For feedback, please email gilmouralexa@gmail.com

    do justice. is an offering from Shining Waters Regional Council, part of the United Chruch of Canada.

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    Ash Wednesday

    Ash Wednesday

    A brief meditative service to begin the Lenten season.

    Readings:

    "On Death" from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
    "From Dust" by Rev. M. Barclay (enfleshed.com)
    Isaiah 58:1-12 (read by Rev. Oliver Dingwell)
    Psalm 51

    Music:

    When We Are Living — Spanish Traditional
    From Dust — B. Swan
    Let Healing Swiftly Come — B. Swan
    Come Healing — Leonard Cohen (performed by Bri-anne)

    Do Justice Podcast
    en-caFebruary 17, 2021

    Refugee King: Epiphany Episode

    Refugee King: Epiphany Episode

    Epiphany has come a week late. A follow-up conversation from last year's Epiphany episode with Rev. Michiko Bown-Kai, Rev. Alexa Gilmour and Executive Director of Ramiro House, Jennifer McIntyre. Listen as they reflect on what has emerge since last year's art installation, as well as how COVID has affected those seeking asylum in Canada.  Music by Emorie and Liz Vice (www.lizvice.com)

     

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    How We Tell the Story: A Christmas Eve Special

    How We Tell the Story: A Christmas Eve Special

    It's Christmas Eve and we have a fun, lofi, campy retelling of Luke's Nativity narrative with a brief time of reflection.  Yes, perhaps the Christmas story isn't historically accurate, but the meaning we bring to the story and how we tell it is the beginning of our call towards how we are to be in God's world.

    Music by Emorie, Dreamlamp and provisioning of Mary, Did You Know? by Jennifer Henry and performed by Bri-anne.

    Reading of the Magnificat by Sarah Norris Andrews.  Addition scripture reading by The Lockdown Brothers.

     

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    Do Justice Podcast
    en-caDecember 24, 2020

    Revolutionary Joy with Emelda De Coteau (Pray with Our Feet)

    Revolutionary Joy with Emelda De Coteau (Pray with Our Feet)

    Special guest Emelda De Coteau of Pray with Our Feet sits down with Bri-anne (across the Internet) to talk about the revolutionary power of joy and love.

     

    SCRIPTURE

    Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11, read by the Rev. Ryk Brown from the Bruce Trail in Hamilton, Ontario.

    John 1:6-8, 19-28, read by the Rev. Ruth Noble from Monarch Park in Toronto, Ontario.

     

    MUSIC

    Beauty Bright by Drew Brown.

    Raise a Voice (Hear it Echo) by Emorie.

     

    WORDS

    "The Wilderness is the Birthplace of Joy" by Sarah Are from A Sanctified Art.

     

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    Human Rights Day: A Conversation with David Atwood

    Human Rights Day: A Conversation with David Atwood

    A special bonus episode for Human Rights Day (December 10th).  Bri-anne speaks with David Atwood, a retired oil company engineer who has spent more than 25 years working to abolish the death penalty in Texas. David is the founder of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

    Buy David's book, Detour to Death Row at Peace Centre Books.

     

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    Preaching the Wilderness

    Preaching the Wilderness

    Special guest, the Rev. Karen Orlandi, joins me as we talk about Mark 1:1-8, John preaching in the wilderness. We'll hear about her unrelenting advocacy for street-involved persons in St. Catherines (Ontario), and her absolute obsession with pooping, and safe, hygeinic places to do it.

    Words by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.  Music by Emorie & Chris Tindal.  A brief reflection on The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women.

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    Special Episode: Elizabeth Mohler and Alexa Gilmour speak about the Church & Disability

    Special Episode: Elizabeth Mohler and Alexa Gilmour speak about the Church & Disability

    December 3, is International Day of People with Disabilities.  The annual observance of the International Day of Disabled Persons was proclaimed in 1992 by United Nations General Assembly and aims to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and development, and to increase awareness of the situation of persons with disabilities in every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life.

    In honour of International Day of People with Disabilities, the Rev. Alexa Gilmour, minister at Windemere United Church in Toronto, spent some time in conversation with PhD candidate Elizabeth Mohler about disability, the church, the Advent story and the assumptions that are often brought forward when one listens to these familiar biblical texts.  We are fortunate to be able to sit in on this conversation.

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    Keep Awake: Hope as Resistance

    Keep Awake: Hope as Resistance

    Mark 13:24-27.  Happy New Year!  We're done with Matthew.  Now we get to hang out with Mark.  What's with all the talk of the end times?  Hope as resistance. Music by Emorie, the Sun Harmonic and Bri-anne. Words by Death Row inmate Ramiro Gonzales and UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima speaking about World AIDS Day.

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    To The Blue by The Sun Harmonic

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    Not Your Ordinary King

    Not Your Ordinary King

    It's Christ the King Sunday (soon).  What does it mean to speak of Jesus as a "King" or a "Master"?

    Special Guest Jeffrey Dale joins us to talk about his work advocating for safe consumption sites, the tension of using politically charged language to describe Jesus, and wondering what would it mean if we just took Matthew's words at face value.

    SCRIPTURE

    Matthew 25:31-46 read by Bri-anne from outside the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas.

     

    READING

    "Matthew on Jesus by a Prison Wall" from Jesus Son of Man by Kahlil Gibran.

     

    MUSIC

    "That's Who You Are" by Jesse Peters 

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    "Choose Love" by The Foxfires

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    Brave Parade: There is Good Company in the Darkness

    Brave Parade: There is Good Company in the Darkness

    Our first full episode as *do justice. the podcast*!  We're either getting acquainted or reacquainted... 

    Matthew 25:14-30.  Jesus tells a parable about a master, some slaves...and about $9,000,000.  Who is complicit? Who is vulnerable? What would it mean to believe those who are scapegoated?

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    "Nightingale" by Emorie 

    "Brave Parade" by Shawna Caspi (originally by Lynn Miles)
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    Do Justice Podcast
    en-caNovember 13, 2020