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Recently Old South Church was contacted by a reporter from Channel 25 Fox News, who called to inquire about our corner signboard, which currently reads: “MLK’s God can get you into trouble.” Old South posted these words in honor of the anniversary of MLK’s Birthday, and are leaving it up for at least part of Black History Month. The sign is intended to be provocative … even parabolic, functioning in much the same way as the parables of Jesus. We hope it will stop people in their tracks and...
Join Old South Church in observance of Lent.
Ash Wednesday Services
February 22, 12 noon and 6 pmJoin us for simple services of prayer, silence, confession and the imposition of ashes to mark our entrance into the reflective and somber season of Lent. Clergy will be available for the imposition of ashes between services.
Centering Worship Wednesdays
February 22 - April 4, 7:59 - 8:15 amIncense. Ashes. Bells. Communion … Power for Lent? Lent for Power? Get both.
Lenten StudyA community reading...
Old South Church's winter art installation has been featured this week in the Christian Century. OSC member and gardener Jim Hood first erected "Red Osier Drift" in 2010 "as a labor of love and gift to the city".
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On January 9, 2012, Old South Church welcomed John Edgerton as our Interim Associate Minister. A 2009 graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School, John recently completed a two-year pastoral residency with the 1800-member Plymouth Congregational Church (UCC) in Minneapolis. He has taught adult education and tended to pastoral care. John feels called to urban ministry and brings to us deep experience in hands-on mission work, including mission trips to Sierra Leone.
In John’s own words...
Listen to Minister of Music Harry Huff's interview with 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR news station - on December 29, along with his demonstration of our E.M. Skinner organ.
Dear Old South Church:
On the eve of the eve of the eve of Christmas, here is my blessing and wish for you: May you be thuriferous.
Thuriferous. (thur-IF-er-us) adj. carrying or producing frankincense.
According to the gospel of Matthew gold, frankincense, and myrrh were among the gifts brought to Jesus by the Magi from the East. One of the magi, therefore, was thuriferous. He carried to the Christ child a marvelous resin, at once aromatic and healing.
May you be thuriferous this Christmas...
Read the UCC's December 15th Daily Devotional "Ark" by OSC Associate Minister Quinn Caldwell.
Read the UCC's December 11th Daily Devotional "Hope of the Righteous" by OSC Interim Minister for Discipleship Ron Buford.
Click here to view a slideshow of the progression of Old South Church's restoration project over the past three years; compiled by Project Coordinator Lois Corman.
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