Episcopal Bishop Alan M. Gates will lead an online prayer for peace in Ukraine as part of a compline service from the Cathedral Church of St. Paul on Tremont Street at 7 p.m. today.
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By adamg - 2/12/22 - 2:41 pm
A Vermont woman yesterday sued a convicted child-molester priest of molesting her when she was 11 and he was serving at St. Brendan Church in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 12/27/21 - 9:09 am
WBZ, where Liz Walker was an anchor before becoming the Rev. Liz Walker at the Roxbury Presbyterian Church, reports on her last sermon before stepping aside to write a book on trauma and healing.
By adamg - 12/24/21 - 7:39 pm
Leaders of Old South Church in Copley Square shifted planned in-person services on Christmas Eve to online only due to rising Covid-19 numbers and the way the omicron variant spreads so easily. Read more.
By adamg - 12/9/21 - 12:01 pm
The folks at the Boston City Archives say the BRA took this photo inside a church in Charlestown in 1967 and wonder which church it was. This isn't one of those historic puzzlers where they will tell us the answer later - they really aren't sure and are seeking help identifying the church. See it larger - or see it gigantic.
By adamg - 12/6/21 - 9:23 am
Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn has posted an apology for a City Hall Chanukah display that included an explanation that discussed the holiday in Christian terms and referred to "the sins of Israel," WBZ reports.
By adamg - 10/16/21 - 9:37 pm
Matthew Ireland captured the scene at the Christian Science Center Reflecting Pool and the Mother Church the other evening.
By adamg - 10/8/21 - 2:53 pm
The Boston Sun reprints a press release from Rajan Zed, who really wants to give an invocation to start a Boston City Council meeting, but can't find any councilors willing to sponsor him. Read more.
By adamg - 9/9/21 - 3:22 pm
Discovered this morning at Temple Beth Sholom in the middle of the Jewish high holidays, the MetroWest Daily News reports.
By adamg - 8/18/21 - 7:07 pm
A roving UHub photographer noticed today that the Nation of Islam is advertising its hatred of the government and Covid-19 vaccines at Muhummad's Mosque No. 11, a former funeral home, on Washington Street in Grove Hall, right next to the Prince Hall Grand Lodge, which is urging people to get vaccinated.
By adamg - 7/27/21 - 9:16 am
Jamaica Plain News alerts us to a July 29 meeting organized by the First Church on Eliot Street about its burying ground. It's fine with dogs, as long as their owners clean up after them, but some neighbors are not.
By adamg - 7/24/21 - 10:36 am
Dan Kennedy was among the Medford residents who marched outside the New England Baptist Church, which has been using its front-lawn signboard for messages such as "Male and Female He Created Them. Gen. 5:2. Gender Identity Solved." He reports both candidates for mayor joined the protesters.
By adamg - 7/21/21 - 3:07 pm
Today's council meeting opened with an invocation by Rabbi Barbara Penzner of Temple Hillel B'nai Torah in West Roxbury.
A federal judge ruled today that Salem-based Satanists can continue to press their claim that the way the Boston City Council picks clergy members to start its Wednesday meetings - but not them - violates the Constitution's ban on the establishment of religion. Read more.
By adamg - 6/19/21 - 3:36 pm
The First Church in Jamaica Plain, 6 Eliot St. at the Monnument, will ring its bells 600 times at noon on Sunday now that the US has passed 600,000 deaths from the virus.
By adamg - 3/12/21 - 4:32 pm
Wanted for church vandalism.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say jammed the locks a St. Teresa of Calcutta Church and St. John Paul II Catholic Academy, 800 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester and St. Monica-St. Augustine Church, 331 Old Colony Ave. in South Boston with an unknown substance early this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 3/5/21 - 12:32 pm
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a professor denied a promotion at a religious college retains the right to sue because she is not a "minister," which would otherwise let the school discriminate against her on religious grounds. Read more.
By adamg - 1/24/21 - 9:33 pm
A Boston city council already embroiled in controversy over how many mayoral elections to hold this year - in addition to dealing with the pandemic, racial inequities and police reform - now has to battle Satan, in the form of a lawsuit filed by the Satanic Temple of Salem over its refusal to let any Satanists give one of the invocations that start Wednesday council meetings. Read more.
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