April 13, 2023
Old South Church in Boston is seeking a full-time Staff Accountant to execute the day-to-day duties of the business office including paying invoices, completing payroll bi-weekly, basic HR duties, making bank deposits, data entry, and maintaining…
March 29, 2023
March 28, 2023
Your Search Committee has been in deep discernment over the past month – listening and re-listening to recorded interviews with candidates, listening and re-listening to recorded sermons, reading and re-reading written material. In…
March 22, 2023
By Kate Silfen, Church Historian | March 14, 2023 Council Meeting Report
The Reverend Rick Spalding opened our busy March Council meeting with a reading of Marge Piercy’s poem “To Be of Use.” Rick said that this eloquent poem is an apt description…
February 27, 2023
By Kate Silfen, Church Historian | February 14, 2023 Council Meeting Report
Council members gathered for a busy Valentines Day meeting on February 14, 2023. It seemed fitting to welcome our new Associate Minister Ashley Popperson on this festive…
February 16, 2023
February 16, 2023
After months of preparation and diligent review of profiles and letters of interest, the Search Committee has spent the last six weeks in the joyful work of meeting candidates in virtual interviews. We have had the privilege of…
January 23, 2023
January 20, 2023
This month, the Old South Church Senior Minister Search Committee has started interviewing candidates in discernment about our Senior Minister position. As you know, we spent the fall reviewing profiles and letters of interest and…
January 19, 2023
By Kate Silfen, Church Historian | January 10, 2023 Council Meeting Report
The first council meeting of 2023 began on a sorrowful, tender note. The Reverend Katherine Schofield announced that our beloved Reverend Elinor Yeo had passed away on the…
January 18, 2023
Dear Old South Church,
I write today with bittersweet news: our colleague, friend, and fellow church member Helen McCrady - Senior Administrator Extraordinaire and, in so many ways, weaver of the many-stranded, richly complex, ingeniously patterned…