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Support Our Church! Passing the Plate for Expenses, the Rev Reflects...  Fred Askew Photography We seem close to broke at the moment that our movie opens on scores of screens in the United States and Canada. We have a low budget -- we pay six musicians and the weekly rehearsal hall rental, a 2 1/2 person staff but no office, just computers and phones and musical equipment to buy and maintain. Once in a while we will take out an ad in the Onion. Most of us -- and all the singers -- are activists on top of day-jobs. We like action. We'll lead a parade, energize a picket line in a Wal-Mart parking lot, sing at a fundraiser to save a town from a supermall... Maybe we're too busy to write grants, or , we remember so many rejections when we did have a grant-writer. We seem to fall "out of category." Amen! So - JOIN THE CHURCH. We're asking you to be our supporters. We're a good bang for the change-the-world buck. One Radical Gesture: Become a Church Member Donations Are Tax-Deductible Through Our 501(c)3 Entity "The Immediate Life". Transactions Are Handled Through JustGive.org Soul Sinner: $12 at the door of a “Fabulous Worship,” but on the other hand no-one is every turned away. Come to the Highline Ballroom, first Sundays of the month. Click here to donate now Guilty Shopper: $30 for any show with any number of friends and lovers -- and accept into your life our CD/DVD which includes the short film “Preacher with an Unknown God. Click here to donate now Cross Bearer: $100 for an opening nite on Friday Nov 16 at the Cinema Village in NY, or the 24th at the Lumiere in SF -- with champagne-and-gospel reception, plus any and all live shows for a full year, with any number of lovers and friends. Click here to donate now Hedge Funder: $500 is half the cost of our weekly rehearsal. You will be welcome to attend our Sunday night church sing-a-thon when you come to NYC, or when we tour through your part of the country, free Fabulous Worships for a year, and a baptism for the child of your choice (a child of any age) into a life FREE OF CONSUMPTION. Click here to donate now Eternal Lifer: $1000 is the cost of our weekly rehearsal. You have now paid the musicians, the rent, and left Savi and myself with money for bridge, gas and tolls to get us back to Brooklyn. Forty such gifts and we worship for the whole year. You can visit any rehearsal and attend any show and risk arrest with us too. You can avail of our choir and preacher, our presence at your wedding, funeral or ascension into a heaven. Click here to donate now  
 cotton | September 27, 2005 | brooklyn, New York Dear Rev: Rev Billy, I get this urge to buy comfortable cotton clothes even though I already have lots of comfortable cotton clothes, I think the variety will make my life more interesting or more yummy or something. Its like wanting to buy several gallons of milk, sure, you know you will use it all eventually--but when does eventually come????? – Basema, Brooklyn, NY Rev Billy replies: Dear Basema, You have here a series of soft-focus desires: "more interesting," and "yummy," and "comfortable." But really they are blurs inside a larger desire, which is "I get this urge." Now, let's go all the way to your final words, "when does ‘eventually' come?" "Eventually" does not serve us, Sister Basema. It only puts off direct action. My suggestion is: Take 12 pages and write the 12 months across each page. Then write down what you'll need over those four seasons – nothing impressionistic like "more interesting," and "eventually." Straightforwardly, what do you need? It's almost like asking, "Who am I? Who am I really?" And then there's the question "Where am I?" Which keeps coming up while traveling across America, in this sea of identical details. The same dozen logos where-ever we go. Toto, looking out of this bus window, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, but how would we know? -- Rev |
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Thanks for the great movie. I gave my family carbon credits for Christmas last year. some I gave SEVA microloan certificates. I think it takes a long time to change people's minds but you are on the right track so please persist. Peace, Nina NWIndiana CodePink.
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