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We are grateful to the Mayor and the City of Boston staff for taking the long view in this agreement for the Back Bay/South End Gateway Project. Progress and preservation need not be a zero sum game. Development and affordable housing need not be at…

We are grateful to the Mayor and the City of Boston staff for taking the long view in this agreement for the Back Bay/South End Gateway Project. Progress and preservation need not be a zero sum game. Development and affordable housing need not be at…

"As I reflect upon the horrors visited upon these small churches, these soft targets, I am reminded that the practice of church ushering is not what it used to be [...] Who among us has not considered that all it takes is a single, enraged, deranged…

On Sunday afternoon, October 15, 2017, the Old South Church congregation voted 116-1 to become a Level 2 Supporting Congregation of the New Sanctuary Movement. As a result, Old South Church will be partnering with Bethel AME Church and a cluster of…

On Sunday afternoon, October 15, 2017, the Old South Church congregation voted 116-1 to become a Level 2 Supporting Congregation of the New Sanctuary Movement. As a result, Old South Church will be partnering with Bethel AME Church and a cluster of…

When I was 23 years old, I was working a good (if awfully quiet) office job in Chicago. It was steady work. No matter what was going on in the world, I knew what I would be doing 9-5. And I was okay with that. But then Hurricane Katrina came…

Read Old South Church's letter to Boston Properties regarding the impact of shadows from the Back Bay / South End Gateway Project on Old South Church in Boston and the community. Inquiries may be directed to Rev. John Edgerton, john@oldsouth.org.

"Two Massachusetts Conference representatives [incl. Rev. John Edgerton] took part in a lunchtime stand in at the Massachusetts State House today calling on Governor Charlie Baker to take urgent action on the climate crisis by releasing an executive…