Had a nice pitcher and wings break with martini and Goddess of Freak. It wasn't a church meeting but you put a couple ministers together (Marty and I that is) and there will surely be church issues raised… We debated, among other things, the need for the church to do charity work. One of the ideas raised — sort of an expansion of the jail tattooing outreach that's already been discussed — was the idea about tattoo artist ministers taking an afternoon a week and doing coverups of bad tattoos on anyone for free. On a purely selfish level, if it was done on an off day, it probably wouldn't hurt a studio or minister financially, and it would be an enormously positive outreach.
We also discussed the need for the church to agressively teach its members not to always use mods to “scream”… We talked about cutting (the psychiatric term, not scarification), as well as people who get heavy facial mods so they can be “cool” in a subculture because they weren't able to be cool in mainstream culture… That the church has a duty to make sure its members are healthy, and getting mods in a healthy and positive context.
It wasn't a meeting, but a lot was discussed that should have been written down. I have a horrible memory…
Since some people have asked: The applications will be up on the Canadian Church page in the next couple of days (I'll post here as well when they are). Application is free, and open to people from anywhere in the world. For those people who have put off joining the US church because they're waiting for this one to open: there's no reason why you can't join both!
