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A Message to White Allies

June 1, 2020

We cannot allow destructive rage to distract us from the root of the rage: injustice, the terrors of being black in a racist society, a system that favors and privileges some of us while demeaning and murdering others of us. The fact is that people don't revolt just just because...they revolt when circumstances have grown revolting. The rage we are seeing across the country is borne of genuine desperation. The pandemic just added more fuel to a smoldering heap of desperation.

May 2020 Updates from the COVID-19 Task Force

May 31, 2020

Dear Old South Church: We are all experiencing anxiety and fatigue over not being able to see the future, plan ahead, or catch sight of even a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. Does this tunnel ever end? To that end, your Blue Ribbon Covid-19 Task Force met Wednesday evening. I am so very grateful for them - doctors and nurses, government officials, social worker and public health experts, all of whom know and love this church - taking time from hectic schedules to put their good heads and hearts together for us. Here's the summary: First, our docs and nurses promise that there is a...

The Season of Pentecost, 2020

May 22, 2020

In this season of Pentecost, 2020, our prayer is that the Spirit will blow in ways that upset normalcy and thus call us into new paths to be the Church in a vastly changed world.

Virtual Church Continues

May 20, 2020

Please stay put and Zoom in. Your health and safety and the health and safety of our staff are paramount.

A Message from the Outreach Committee

April 29, 2020

In this time of great challenge, Old South Church knows the power of being a Christian community conscious of the most vulnerable among us. Thanks to you, we are blessed to provide grants totaling over $100,000 per year to phenomenal nonprofits working in Boston.

A Good Friday Reflection

April 10, 2020

For the past seven years I have had the opportunity to join with other clergy and members of South Church to worship with the inmates at MCI Framingham on Good Friday.

Old South Church's Response to COVID-19

March 12, 2020

Old South Church in Boston is suspending in-person worship and programs. Read on for details. Dear Old South Church: Science. Math. Reason. Good citizenship. Flattening the curve. It is these that inform our decision to close our doors, not literally, but effectively, that we might do our part to lessen the advance of Coronavirus. The sooner we all implement the practices urged by the CDC and W.H.O. the sooner we will come through this and get back to normal. Such is the reasoning of Old South Church's COVID-19 Blue Ribbon Task Force comprised of experts in medicine, public health, and...

Steadfastness: A Lenten Reflection

February 25, 2020

In this Lenten season let our hymns, prayers, conversations, voices and votes come to the fore with new resolve as we live out our lives as disciples.

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