Mary Magdalene Leading the Way to Easter
February 18, 2007
St Mary Magdalene, originally uploaded by hadyn.green.
this is the email we’re sending out to PONY and $PREAD Magazine lists… please pass on to any (current or former) sex workers you know and feel free to comment below!
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dear sex workers with spiritual leanings,
we’d like to invite you to help us plan and produce an Easter service. We’re an underground church mostly made up of folks who feel unfulfilled by mainstream American church culture, and we have a passion for sex worker advocacy (we aren’t sex workers ourselves, but are friends with members of PONY and editors of $PREAD Magazine).
We’ll be focusing on Mary Magdalene’s close and personal relationship with the man we call Jesus, her witness and mission on behalf of the risen Christ, and contemporary sex worker issues.
we will be holding the service at Avalon (Ave of the Americas @ 20th Street) on the evening of April 8th. Avalon used to be called Limelight and before that, it was Holy Communion Episcopal Church, a church which did some really interesting work with the sex worker community in the 19th Century.
we would welcome your participation in making this event fabulous and meaningful to people who may feel unwelcome or marginalized in the Christian church today. quick note: the point of this event is NOT to get converts or to “save” anyone - the point is to celebrate the easter tradition, explore how we can apply it to contemporary issues, and have a service that includes a community which is often excluded.
please consider joining us for a planning meeting this Wednesday, Feb 21, 7pm - in the basement of Advent Lutheran (Bway @ 93rd); we would really like some sex-worker led guidance in developing this event. Transmission is a Christian group but folks from any tradition are welcome.
we’ll be holding future planning meetings on Weds 3/7, 3/21 and 4/4. Location TBA. please contact us through our blog if you can’t come this week, but would like to hear more about our future meetings.
blessings,
Bowie Snodgrass and Isaac Everett
www.transmissioning.org
One Response to “Mary Magdalene Leading the Way to Easter”
Thanks so much for your invitation which we’ve sent to our members. When you get a chance to, please send the details for your next planning session to PONY. Even those who don’t have time to plan might be eager to attend the Easter Service, so please keep us updated.
By PONY on Feb 25, 2007