News & Announcements
December 6, 2017
The Christiansen Award is given annually to an organization that has done extraordinary work of mercy and justice in the past year. This award was created in memory of Bob Christiansen, a beloved Old South Church minister who is memorialized most…
November 16, 2017
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…
November 16, 2017
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…
November 7, 2017
"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…
October 16, 2017
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…
October 16, 2017
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…
October 5, 2017
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…
October 3, 2017
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.