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Old South Gospel Choir performed at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast in Boston, the nation's longest-running event dedicated to honoring Dr. King.

This year for All Saints Sunday the Festival Choir present Gabriel Fauré’s poignant Requiem in a ‘chamber’ version for organ, harp, violin, and cello. Despite the fact that the majority of his career was spent in the service of the church, Fauré is not known as a composer of sacred music. In fact, the Requiem is his towering contribution to the genre, and had a lasting impact on the settings of later composers.

In the wake of the shootings at Pittsburg’s Tree of Life Congregation, there is an initiative underway of solidarity, community and support for our Jewish friends.

Those who sign up to read a book with The Theological Book Group usually feel that they are on a journey.

Church Council approved the formation of a Climate Change Task Force to support broader education and action on environmental issues.

A little more than a month ago, April 4, 2018, to be exact, we remembered the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. Here at Old South Church we heard excerpts from some of his speeches that played all day in the Sanctuary and were even broadcast out onto our sidewalk. People came in to hear or stood outside to listen again to that familiar voice proclaiming that segregation and racism were antithetical to the Christian Gospel. Younger folks heard his voice perhaps for the first time.

Guest Blog by Gregory Mobley 

Our annual Children's Sabbath took place on April 22, 2018, and featured a sermon by 5th grader Ady Jaeckel.

Do you ever feel a bit overwhelmed? That life is sometimes just a bit too much? That you have taken on more than you can handle? Or that all your good efforts don’t seem to make a difference?