News & Announcements
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…
"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…