News & Announcements
July 31, 2012
Dear Friends at Old South,
We wish to give a hearty and heartfelt THANK YOU to Old South Church for your ongoing support of the Allston-Brighton Food Pantry. We enjoyed hosting the OSC volunteers who came out to help us serve in July,…
Senior Minister Nancy Taylor has signed a publishing agreement with Westminster John Knox Press for her work in the upcoming Feasting on the Gospels series. She has been asked to write entries on John’s Gospel. Rev. Taylor previously wrote for the…
On July 18, 2012, Old South Church’s own Dr. Dan Oates was interviewed on the Callie Crossley Radio Show to talk about Independence at Home (IAH). Congressman Ed Markey, co-author of the IAH legislation, was also interviewed.
Old South Church member Paula Hammond was featured as one of 12 Bostonians Changing the World in the Boston Globe on June 15, 2012. Paula is a professor in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Insititue of Technology.
Each year Andover Newton Theological School awards one student, pursuing a Doctorate of Ministry in Pastoral Care, a grant through the Christenson Scholarship Fund. Old South Church established this fund in memory of Rev. Robert H. Christenson who…
Read A Right to Reproductive Health by Peter Yeo, Vice President of Public Policy and Executive Director of Better World Campaign at United Nations Foundation, and the son of Old South Church members Dick and Elinor Yeo. Peter reflects on his mother…
Old South Church member Dr. Dan Oates was featured in the Boston Globe on Sunday, July 1, 2012 in an article about a program at Boston Medical Center which is reaching out and providing care to homebound seniors. Read Can house calls cut health…
Read "Eighteen Miles of Conscience: How the pastorate of Samuel Willard changed the face of ministry in America" by rising Harvard University sophomore Tim Seery. Seery argues that Rev. Samuel Willard changed the nature of pastoral care in America…