Bill Moyers and Jeremiah Wright April 26, 2008
These are worth watching. Catch the whole show on PBS if you can!
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Featured on Village Voice Blog April 18, 2008
Bowie Snodgrass, beloved community member, had a great interview for Naked City, the Village Voice’s blog on sexuality, as part of the series Sexiness, Next to Godliness: Religion and the Sex Industry. Go check it out: http://www.nakedcity.com/2008/04/god_loves_sex_workers.php
CCT News Release January 15, 2008
Here is a news release about the Christian Churches Together meeting Bowie attended last week.
Please especially note these “Scripture Soundbites” on poverty, compiled by Ron Sider –
In remembrance of the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, Dr. Ron Sider of Evangelicals For Social Action, a CCT participant, provided “God, the Poor and Us: Forty Biblical Reminders,” 40 biblical texts that highlight God’s special concern for poor people. The document is available here.
Meeting with Christian Churches Together January 8, 2008
One of the hats I wear as an “ecumenical Episcopalian” (my third “e” identifier would probably be “emerging”) is as a member of the standing committee for Christian Churches Together, the broadest ecumenical group in our nation’s history.
Today I arrived in Baltimore for the CCT Annual Meeting, which includes a day in DC addressing domestic poverty (see the CCT Statement of Poverty that was passed by consensus last year) and discernment about how we can evangelize together. Yup, you heard that right!
This meeting also has personal meaning for me, because it was at last year’s gathering in Pasadena that I met the Rev. Dr. Peter Heltzel, who lives ten blocks from me in West Harlem, and at whose party in April I met my (now) husband, George! Goes to show you never can tell.
Come to think of it, I also met Samir Selmanovic at last year’s meeting, who has since moved to NYC, is in the process of starting Faith House, an interfaith community in Manhattan.
I am also excited that two other women from exciting NYC organizations are here this year: Lisa Sharon Harper from New York Faith & Justice and Onleilove Alston from the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary.
Please read a little about this group on their website (www.christianchurchestogether.org) and keep us in your prayers this week.
Thanks and blessings, Bowie
Stand With Sex Workers on Mon. / ‘Lessons & Carols’ on Wed. December 15, 2007
Monday, Dec. 17th - International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
Transmission, PONY, $pread, and friends teamed up this April to plan Easter at Avalon, which celebrated the role of Mary Magdalene in Christian and Sex Worker history. This Monday, we’ve been invited to stand together again.
“December 17th is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Join $pread and SWANK (Sex Worker Action New york) on Monday for a candlelight vigil to honor and mourn the sex workers who have died this year and raise awareness of the violence faced by our community. Current and former sex workers, friends and allies all welcome.”
5-7 pm (Bowie will be there at 5). On the steps of Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY. Wear red or bring a red umbrella.
Wednesday, Dec 19th - Transmission: Lessons & Carols
Five days before Christmas, come sing carols and listen to lessons that tell us the story of Advent and Christmas! The service of ‘Lessons and Carols’ has been celebrated since the late 1800’s and we will be sure to include some processing around, incense, and a bidding prayer to add extra cheer.
There are nine lessons and nine carols. Please email bowie at epiphany.ny@gmail.com if you would like to read a lesson, re-write a lesson (or do some other creative rendition thereof), accompany a carol, or do a performance of one!
Cookies, treats, dinner items, beverages, plus your friends & loved ones are most welcome! Location TBA
BAZAAR - looking for Christmas gifts? Buy a subscription to $pread Magazine: Illuminating the Sex Industry. Or check out Thistle Farms. Thistle Farms products are made with the most natural products available whenever possible. Magdalene is a recovery community for women with a criminal history of prostitution and addiction. Thistle Farms is a non-profit business. All proceeds go directly to the program and the women.
Shane Claiborne w/ NJ Faith & Justice, SUNDAY December 1, 2007
NY Faith & Justice is bringing Shane Claiborne to NYC this SUNDAY. Shane is the author of The irresistible Revolution and on the forefront of the New Monastic movement. Isaac and I have both read his book and seen him speak and recommend him whole heartedly!
He’s the media-subversive, politically-radical, dreadlocked-hippy St. Francis of our day.
If you’re free on Sunday evening from 7:30-9:30, GO! And if you want to learn more about the NEW NY Faith & Justice group, they are having a service at 5 with meal following. All FREE wtih RSVPs.
———- Forwarded message ———-
Advent begins this Sunday!
Advent is the season when the church waits for the arrival Jesus.
This year NY Faith & Justice invites you to enter the season asking one question…
“Is Advent just a celebration of the time when Jesus first came as a baby or is it a current day prayer for Christ to come today?”
THIS SUNDAY December 2, 2007
NY Faith & Justice @ All Angels Church!
251 W. 80th Street @ Broadway
Keynote Speaker Shane Claiborne (author of The Irresistible Revolution)
The Bridge (@ 5pm) AND Christianity and Transformational Development Seminar (@ 7:30pm)
Thanksgiving & Holy-days November 18, 2007
As the holy-days draw near again, here’s our calendar for the next five weeks. Advent, the season of expectation leading up to Christmas, is one of our favorite liturgical times of year. We’d love to see you at any or all events. Blessings, Bowie
THIS WEEK - from Katherine Lee -
Hi there,
So I’m thinking of doing a ritual Wednesday based around the themes of gratitude and thankfulness, but instead of being thankful for exterior things, which are all very well and good (e.g. family, friends), I’m coming up with a ritual that will hopefully turn our gratitude inwards. It’s not often that we give thanks for our own gifts, and I think taking stock in what we are good at in the context of serving others can be a transformative experience.
Let’s say 7:30-ish at my place? Please email me for directions (kcl232@gmail.com), and I’ll make a main dish. BYOB or sides/dessert welcome.
K
UPCOMING CALENDAR
Thurs, Nov 29th - Bible Study at Floridita’s, 3219 Broadway at 125th Street
Wed, Dec 5th - Advent Transmission, theme and location TBA
Thurs, Dec 13th - Bible Study in Union Square, led by Renata
Wed, Dec 19th - Advent Transmission, theme and location TBA
“Berlin in Lights” in Washington Heights
Rev. Ike’s Words of Wisdom, originally uploaded by Awreye.
“It’s nice to be important, but more important to be nice.” – Rev. Ike
This was one of the quotes in the foyer of the United Palace Theater ,where more than one hundred New York City school kids danced tonight to the Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.”
The Rev. Ike restored the art-deco “Wonder Theater”, where tonight’s great gathering happened, and uses it as the “cathedral” for his Christ United Church. But tonight, the palace was the scene of “Berlin in Lights,” and, as Sir Clive Gillinson said, these kids were dancing with the best “pit bands” possible, the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Stravinsky’s revolutionary orchestral composition, written between 1911 and 1913, was vibrant, alive, and masterfully played. The energy on the stage was electric. The kids captured my full attention and heart in the first moments of their dance.
If you are free tomorrow at 3pm, spend the $15 and travel up to Broadway and 175th Street.
Right in the heart of Washington Heights, there’s music and magic to be seen and heard.
www.carnegiehall.org/berlininlights/ros
Past Always Changing, Creation in Proverbs - 10/25 October 22, 2007
THE FUTURE IS CERTAIN - IT’S THE PAST THAT’S ALWAYS CHANGING
Another view of Creation in Proverbs 8:22-36
- Gather for dinner & social time 7pm @ Floridita’s, 3219 Broadway (1 train to 125th, cross 125th St, Floridita’s is at end of block)
- Due to Mr. Snodgrass’s academic schedule, the Bible-study will begin at 8:15
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell.
Scholarly studies have demonstrated that Genesis 1 is not the oldest creation narrative in the Bible. At least half a century before the Torah took its final shape, the book of Proverbs showed our familiar patriarch assembling the Earth - with the help of a feminine partner. This Thursday’s Bible Study will focus on the Bible’s first creation story (Proverbs 8:22-36), with an eye toward how it shaped the Genesis creation, the creation in John 1, and our understandings of the patriarchal “way of the world.”
TRICK OR TREAT - TWO CHANCES to participate in EXORCISMS & INVOCATIONS ritual
- Bowie is working on a Halloween Ritual for Wed October 31st exploring the power of language to impact reality! More info to follow.
- SATURDAY, Oct 27th from 11am-1pm, she’ll be doing this ritual with City Lights, another emerging church community in NYC, and would LOVE to have a couple other Transmissioners come along! If you’re available on Saturday and would like to help out with the planning for our Halloween ritual, please email
bowiesnodgrass@gmail.com. Thanks!
The Green Retreat: A Quest for Sustainable Spirit, Community, and World October 17, 2007
An invitation from the Congregation of St. Saviour at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. Lead by the Reverend Victoria Sirota, Canon Pastor and Vicar.
Saturday, November 3rd
9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m
Cathedral House, 1047 Amsterdam Ave
Itinerary
9:30-10:00 Registration and Breakfast
10:00-10:15 Opening by Reverend Sirota
10:15-11:45 Isabelle Silverman, Environmental Defense: “The Science of Global Warming”
11:45-12:45 Lunch
12:45-1:00 Spiritual Meditation with Reverend Sirota
1:00-1:45 Elena Lomicky, Green Living Consultant: “Things We Can Do at Home to Reduce Our Carbon Footprint”
2:00-2:45 Bob Muldoon, Sierra Club: “Environmental Advocacy at the Community and National Level”
3:00-3:45 Frank Morris, Ecological Advisors: “The Spiritual and Economic Case for Environmental Investing”
4:00-4:30 Closing Service
People of all faiths are warmly welcomed to attend. We request a $12 donation. Serving wonderful organic, vegetarian fare. RSVP required. Please contact education@saintsaviour.org
