News & Announcements
December 7, 2021
We are very excited to announce that Reamogetje (Amo) Ngoepe, who has served among us for over two years as our Pastoral Resident in the Urban Pastoral Ministry Programming (funded by a grant from the Lilly Endowment), will be ordained to Christian…
November 10, 2021
Dear Church:
Some of us only know Old South with Nancy Taylor as the Senior Minister. For us, her retirement, which she communicated to the Church Council at its October meeting and announced to the congregation this week, seems unimaginable. …
November 10, 2021
Nancy S. Taylor, Senior MinisterNovember 10, 2021
When I graduated from seminary in 1981 and made my way to serve my first churches – three small churches in rural Maine – it never occurred to me I would know the privilege of serving at a place like…
November 8, 2021
Dear Old South Church in Boston,
We rejoice that the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended pediatric COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. Alleluia! This is another crucial step toward keeping one another safe from the…
August 29, 2021
Dear Old South Church:
Can you sing this to yourself? The tune is LEONI:
They did not build in vain, who founded here a church
As witness to God’s love amid a world of pain;
They built upon the rock that is the risen Christ.
The one foundation laid…
August 24, 2021
Ten years after her enslavement and arrival in America, Phillis Wheatley chose to be baptized in what is now the Old South Meeting House on August 18, 1771. As a member of the church, she found a community and a deep spiritual connection, but she…
August 13, 2021
A Space for Remembrance, Contemplation, and Education
(outdoors, through August) The Middle Passage Installation of Remembrance presents a large banner (17' x 5') featuring the image of human persons packed as cargo into a ship. Juxtaposed to this…
July 2, 2021
In Spring 2021, the Old South Church Climate Crisis Task Force asked its congregation: what changes have you made in your personal life to combat the climate crisis? Below are graphs and tables detailing the results of the survey, followed by a list…