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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?

The time has come. Indeed, many will say that the time has long past that we, as a nation, deal with our addiction to guns. Over these past years there have been mass shootings in schools, theatres, churches, and in other public gathering places. The death toll climbs. But the recent school shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14th, may well have been the ‘tipping point’.

Reflections on Lent, Holy Week, and Easter

On Ash Wednesday we enter the six weeks of Lent, leading us to Holy Week and its attendant journey through Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. In our country and culture we find ourselves in a time of great division, competing values, and strident, argumentative discourse. In the face of all of this, in my own Lenten discipline this year, I have felt called to use the prayer: “Holy One, give me the strength, courage, and wisdom not to add to the polarization before me and within me.”

Rev. Don Wells reflects on immigration issues in the US, writing "Will we stand firm and protect the innocent?"

Two things converged for me during these past couple of weeks that shed fresh light on the difficult place we find ourselves in as we begin a new year. The first was my rediscovery of a poem by the late Arnold Kenseth, poet, author, pastor and friend, entitled ‘Flight Into Egypt’ (from The Ritual Year, 1993). While still in the Epiphany Season when we remember the star and the journey of the Magi to that rude shed, Kenseth’s poem moves the Jesus story ahead to the flight into Egypt where the Holy Family hoped to find refuge from the wrath of King Herod.

Dear Old South Church in Boston,

On the eve of our national day of Thanksgiving, I have much for which to give God thanks.

Among these, I am thankful for an Old South Church member named Thankful Fish. Thankful joined this church on July 9, 1727. Thank you, Thankful.

Old Souther Emma Brewer-Wallin participated in a civil disobedience action to call on Gov. Charlie Baker to take action on climate change.

To my beloved friends, family, Church:

Yesterday I broke the law: I was charged with trespassing and unlawful assembly.