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November 2023
Boston Flourish 2023
WHAT: Gather with the dreamers and doers of our city to activate and partner towards a Boston where everyone flourishes. At this gathering, we will celebrate the many ways that God has been and is presently at work in the city and further this work by connecting together to strategically address issues facing Boston residents. This year, our key impact areas are human trafficking, youth mental health, and migrant care. Key organizations addressing these areas will present the current state…
Find out more »Dean’s Forum: Small Town, Big Gospel: Ministry in Small Places
Join us on Tuesday, November 28 for the final Dean’s Forum of 2023! For decades now, evangelicals have implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) privileged and prioritized ministry in big cities and suburbs. After all, that’s where the action is, that’s where to go in order to make your life count, to influence influencers, to shape culture. The Apostle Paul focused on cities. A small church in a no-name town doesn’t have the same cachet or importance. But for those of us…
Find out more »December 2023
Southern Civil Rights Tour Info Session
Emmanuel Gospel Center's Race and Christian Community Initiative invites you to join us as we travel with Christians from across the country on a Southern Civil Rights Tour to visit nationally-known sites, local treasures, and people connected to the Civil Rights Movement of the '50s & '60s. This will be a Black-led, multiracial tour hosted by The Center for Restorative Justice. This tour will take place June 7th - 15th, 2024. To learn more, register for the Southern Civil Rights…
Find out more »The Dark Hours of Advent
The Dark Hours of Advent A song cycle based on Rainer Maria Rilke's Book of Hours Composed by Christopher Greco, piano and vocals With guest musicians Cliff Chuang, Pierson Wetzel, and Andy Young English translations of poems by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy English translation of Rilke's letters by Stephen Mitchell This program will include excerpts of advent hymns and readings. Sunday, December 10, 6:30 p.m. Reservoir Church, The Chapel 15 Notre Dame Avenue Cambridge, MA 02140 "Pay what you can"…
Find out more »We’re Hiring! Part-Time Communications Administrator
UniteBoston Staff Update: Calvin Lee has decided to leave his role as Communications Administrator for UniteBoston. We have loved working with Calvin;his skillsets in communication and graphic design have been a huge asset, and where Calvin has really shined is his ability to dream with us around where the Church needs to grow, be, and do. Our board and staff wish him all the best as he pursues where God is leading him with and more fully devote his time and…
Find out more »January 2024
UniteBoston Fundraising Party at PKL
Save the Date and join us for UniteBoston's Fundraising Party at PKL on January 14! Start off 2024 with some fun with the UniteBoston community. This year's fundraiser will be at PKL, a venue in South Boston where we will have the lounge area to hang out, play cornhole and shuffleboard, eat great food, and hear about what is coming next for UB. This is our seventh annual fundraiser - there is no cost to attend, but there will be…
Find out more »2024 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is an international initiative where Christians worldwide are reminded of Jesus’ prayer for his disciples that “they may be one so that the world may believe” (John 17:21). Locally, UniteBoston coordinates evening collaborative gatherings of fellowship, prayer and worship from January 18-25 annually. This year’s theme, liturgies, and prayer guides were developed together by Christian churches from Burkina Faso in western Africa. This year’s theme is based on the text from the Gospel of…
Find out more »February 2024
Faith Leader Gathering for Pastors and Ministry Leaders
We would like to extend an invitation to New England pastors and ministry leaders to join us for a Faith Leader Workshop hosted at Gordon College, with guest facilitator and friend of the college J.R. Briggs. The topic for the day will be Faith in a Rising Generation: a needed conversation. The gathering will include a complimentary lunch, two workshop sessions, and opportunities for networking. We will be hosting this event on Tuesday, February 13th from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Gordon College…
Find out more »Evangelicalism, Identity, and Culture: Challenges and Opportunities
Sponsored by Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary's Hamilton Dean's Office: The evangelical church, especially in North America, has come to a serious time of self-reflection in the past few years. The clash with an increasingly secularized and polarized society is causing evangelicals to reflect deeply on their identity and how they interact with the culture. In the book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, Carl Trueman traces the evolution of cultural shifts from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, leading…
Find out more »Online Social Justice Course
Hi Boston Friends! I had the amazing privilege to contribute a chapter on race in the book called, Social Injustice Volume II which addresses topics of discipleship, politics, race, mental health, and community development. Practitioners and scholars from North America, Africa, and the Middle East came together in a single volume to share insights that can guide the church to effectively engage the injustices of the world. And now that book is an online course! - Rev. Devlin Scott …
Find out more »March 2024
Migrant Care: Boston Flourish Follow-Up Conversation
Join us for a follow-up conversation from Boston Flourish around Migrant Care in Boston on March 8th at 10am. We will give a current update on urgent needs and begin to create working groups for short/long term collaborative care solutions in the city. There are many people already so beautifully engaged, we just are trying to make those efforts more visible and accessible and also determine where we might discover some gaps. A survey was created from the first Boston…
Find out more »Gordon-Conwell Explore Seminary: CUME
We invite you to get a taste of life at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary! Prospective students are invited to join us Saturday March 16 for Explore Seminary, a half day event held at Gordon-Conwell’s Campus for Urban Ministerial Education (CUME) in Boston, MA, where you will learn about academics, community life, and financial aid. Please register here to attend this free event, including lunch. This event may be attended in-person or virtually by Zoom (link provided upon registration). Event Schedule 9:30a.m. – 10:00 a.m. —…
Find out more »Have You Got Good Religion? Black Women’s Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership
Please join us on March 20 for an event with Dr. AnneMarie Mingo as she discusses her recently released and groundbreaking book Have You Got Good Religion? Black Women's Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership. It is the first book-length examination of the religious lives, influences, and theologies of women in the Civil Rights Movement since Rosetta Ross's 2003 book Witnessing and Testifying. And it's the first book-length treatment of the role of "everyday" women in the movement ever published. Mingo constructs a lived theology…
Find out more »Boston Anti-trafficking Prayer Team
Route One Ministry (www.lovebyrouteone.org) is excited to announce the official launch of the Boston Anti-trafficking Prayer Team! What does this mean? At Route One we believe that prayer is powerful. Our dream is to expand our service to more women by launching an outreach team that goes into the downtown Boston clubs. Going into a new club can be daunting, but we believe in a love that is stronger than the darkness. We plan to devote the next three months to prayer for the Boston club. Would you and others…
Find out more »Good Friday Worship Service
BMA TenPoint invite you to come out to our in-person Annual Good Friday Worship Service. Meet Us At: St. John Missionary Baptist Church, 230 Warren Street, Roxbury, MA 02119 On Friday, March 29th at 12 o’clock noon. At this memorable service, you will hear 7 dynamic preachers from across the city of Boston proclaim the 7 last words of Christ to commemorate His Death leading up to His Resurrection.
Find out more »Good Friday Public Worship & Action for Ceasefire
Join us on Good Friday, March 29, at 4PM at Faneuil Hall* Square to make it known: as Christians and people of faith, we demand a ceasefire now. Good Friday, March 29, 4PM 1 Faneuil Hall* Sq, Boston, MA 02109 (map) RSVP at: https://bit.ly/goodfridayaction This Holy Week, we follow in the steps of Jesus who resisted the forces of violence and oppression even to the point of death on a cross, and triumphed over them in his resurrection. On Good…
Find out more »Easter Vigil: A Journey from Death to Life
Join us for a special Easter Vigil service downtown, in spacious Converse Hall. Hosted annually by Church of the Cross since 2011, this marks the apex of the Christian calendar, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. This profound service, a liturgical symphony of light, word, water, and communion, embodies the Christian journey from death to life, from darkness to light. It is a night to encounter the living God, who calls us out of the tomb and…
Find out more »April 2024
One: Following Jesus’ Call to Unity
A documentary film on the sobering history of cultural and denominational divisions in the church, and some of the ways folks have worked and are working to bridge those divisions (featuring N.T. Wright, Fr. Richard Rohr, Brian McLaren, Lisa Sharon Harper, Bishop Robert Barron, Fr. Demetrios Tonias and many others). Join us to watch part 1 of the film, followed by a 30-minute conversation at Assumption College in Worcester. RSVP by emailing Scott Brill, Director of The Initiative, scott@theinitiative.org
Find out more »The Imperfect Pastor: 2024 Gordon-Conwell Pastors’ Conference
About the Conference: Leaders in ministry are pressured to produce large, famous things as fast as possible. But the things that matter most in the lives of those we serve require small, mostly overlooked graces over a longer period of time. Pastoring and preaching are best when seen as acts of love and wonder hovering within the ordinary lives of particular people. But this means we also need wisdom. When competing cultural questions, political voices, and individual doubts rise, it…
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