Joia's Reflection
This selective forgetting of the past. Opening a way for my future. This is the legacy of slavery and the white supremist doctrine that justified it. This is my search for identity and honoring my past.
This selective forgetting of the past. Opening a way for my future. This is the legacy of slavery and the white supremist doctrine that justified it. This is my search for identity and honoring my past.
The Climate Task Force presented a second program on the documentary “From Paris to Pittsburgh" and heldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe1kLjww7bw a presentation from Brad Swing, Director of Energy Policy and Programs for the City of Boston.
I had almost forgotten it. It was a Blog that I wrote in May, 2012. A good friend recently uncovered a copy in her office and gave it to me. As I reread it, I realized that a follow up piece was long overdue.
GREEN TIP 1: Reusable Bags We use and discard nearly 1 trillion plastic bags a year! Plastic bags are not goof for the environment and are often unnecessary. Taking reusable cloth bags to the store is one of the easiest steps you can take to reduce waste and care for the planet. The best part, everyone can do it! Click here to take on this Climate Commitment and learn more.
Old South Church and our long-time neighbor, The Muriel S. Snowden International School, are developing a mentoring partnership.
We are now well into the Lenten Season; a very important time in the life of the Christian Community worldwide. It is a time for deep reflection as well as honest repentance. It is a time to begin shaping responses that will lead us in new and creative directions as we live out our discipleship in the midst of a rather cruel, hateful and divisive world. Indeed, it is a time to take stock of where we are and where we need to go as we journey towards Holy Week, the Cross and beyond. No small order.
We declare our 350th Anniversary a Year of Jubilee. In our sacred texts, every 49th year the ram’s horn was sounded to signal the occasion of the Jubilee: a time of penitence, social transformation, and daring acts of ethical imagination (the release of prisoners, forgiveness of debts, redistribution of land, and relief to the poor).
Find out what happened at the first Church Council meeting of 2019.
South End residents Richard Spada and Bob Childers tell their story of how they became members of Old South Church nearly 9 years ago.
Old South members Carol and Amy shared their story of how they first came to Old South and why they support us.