Church of the Covenant

Rest in power and peace Nex. May this never happen again. May we rise up to show radical love and acceptance to all transgender beloveds in our communities. And may the political and religious powers that continue to so violently condemn and deny people their fullness be stymied and utterly fail. Come on fellow Christians, let's begin to love like Jesus with fierce, table turning love that allows everyone to flourish. ~R

Join us tonight at 6:30pm in person or online for Ash Wednesday as we remember both our mortality and belovedness. https://www.cotcbos.org/this-sunday-online.html

Thank you climate jubilee-ers Betty Southwick and Mark Smith !!!

And all of creation rejoices!! Climate Jubilee at work! Thanks Women's Lunch Place - y'all rock!

We leveled up our composting! ♻️ 🌱 Our new friends at Black Earth Compost swing by four times a week to empty out this bin.

Can you tell that our kitchen team is thrilled?

Friends, let's learn and practice countering Islamophobic and Xenophobic Harassment. Hate has no home here! Yesterday we posted about counter Antisemitism - let's step it up people, and demand there be love and dignity and respect in these critical, Incarnational days!
https://www.facebook.com/righttobeorg/videos/1990257571371479/

Right to Be ________ - a few options we are promoting this week. Let us work and pray for a world free of harassment & antisemitism.

Join us tomorrow in worship at 10:30am
for our annual Covenant Renewal Sunday - a special day in our life together. Come also as we rededicate our Clerestory Windows and the completion of our Renew the Light campaign. It will also be good to come together and pray for the life of our hurting world - may somehow, we all learn to study war no more.

Today we canceled worship in our sanctuary in order to worship in the streets of NYC where we chanted “climate justice now” as part of the March to End Fossil Fuels. It was a beautiful, hope filled day where we felt buoyed by the love, solidarity and prayer of the rest of our Covenant church family and as we joined in with over 75,000 others who believe another world beyond fossil fuels is possible and necessary. Yes we can, in faith and hope and the power of the Spirit!

Join us as we worship in the streets for Climate Justice 9-17-23! tinyurl.com/cotc917

Please join us for another important conversation here in downtown Boston about the work of ending homelessness - the work of liberation Jesus calls us into. June 5, 6pm at Rabb Hall in Boston Public Library, Copley with Drs. O’Connell and Reilly from Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program.

Medicine in the Streets with Dr. Jim O'Connell and Dr. Eileen Reilly Hear about work bringing healthcare to people experiencing homelessness, the subject of the beautiful and inspiring book Rough Sleepers.

https://vimeo.com/820582527
We give great thanks for this legacy in servant leadership. And we will miss our Stated Clerk. Godspeed, blessings, peace and thank you for your incredible service. ~R

The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson,II, has announced plans to step down as the Stated Clerk The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson,II, has announced plans to step down as the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) at the end of…

April 21, 2023 Tomorrow is Earth Day, celebrated for the first time in 1970. Coming the same week that House Republicans demanded that Congress rescind the money Democrats appropriated in the Inflation Reduction Act to address climate change, Earth Day in 2023 is a poignant reminder of an earlier era, one in which...

Join us in these next holy 3 days.

It is HIGH time for this change y’all. Change the name. This Holy Week, take this Holy action Boston to begin some repairs for historic unholy wrongs. Please sign as there is some real momentum on this - and our city council may vote even this week or next!

Join Rev. Rob Mark and support this petition Change the Name of Faneuil Hall to Eradicate White Supremacy from a National Landmark. 2,270 signatures are still needed!

GREAT to be in the streets today with fellow Church of the Covenant-ers and hundreds more committed to climate justice, telling big banks to get out of supporting fossil fuels! Let's do the right thing y'all and invest in a future, not a fossil-ed-past. Special thanks to Betty Southwick for organizing us!

HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT!!!
Let's all work and pray for this day HERE AND NOW in our Commonwealth. Are we a COMMON-wealth or not?? The Greater Boston Interfaith Organization

GBIO Housing Justice Campaign Kickoff March 16 10:00am 10:00am MUSIC10:30am PROGRAM11:00am END

If you are wanting to explore more deeply how you can take more public action stands motivated by your faith, tune into this GreenFaith webinar this week.

People of Faith In Public Action Training In this session, we will explore from theological, social, and practical standpoints why it matters that people of faith show up in public and how to do it in a way that feels faithful. If you are shy about taking public actions or are not sure how to begin this will be especially helpful. For seaso...

More drilling is not what we need. C’mon now, let’s do right by our climate and God’s sacred creation.

Biden Clears the Way for Alaska Oil Project The administration issued an analysis that indicates a scaled-back version of the Willow project could go forward. Opponents call the drilling plan a “carbon bomb.”

On this Saint Brigid Day (Imbolc), where the fires of racial injustice burn deep across our land, we all need some more of this. Thank you Kristen Newell (yes, daughter of J. Phillip).
This dance honoring St. Brigid and the Divine Feminine by Kirsten Newell, filmed in the Orkney Islands. The Gaelic song being sung by Mischa Macpherson is based on John Philip's prayer from Sacred Earth Sacred Soul:
Awake, O my soul,
to the beauty of the divine deep within you
and awake to its fragrance in the body of the earth.
Know its strength of attraction
and its grace to heal what has been torn apart.
Awake, O my soul,
to the beauty of the divine deep within you.
Awake, O my soul.
Awake.
---
in perpetual light burning,
~Rob

St Brigid and the Divine Feminine

Thank you Liz Vizza and Friends of the Public Garden for your prophetic and tireless work to keep our public open green spaces sacred and its stories told with equity and justice for all!
https://youtu.be/e__-Plpc6qE See you all at the Embrace unveiling today! Sacred rain or shine :) ~R

A New Year's Message from Friends President Liz Vizza

Grateful to the excellent reporting from our local Chronicle WCVB channel 5 journalists (aired last night). And grateful to have the gift of this historic sanctuary to steward and share with the wider world. ~R

https://youtu.be/ChS0BCDm5is

Historic building on Newbury Street is the focus of a restoration campaign Historic building on Newbury Street is the focus of a restoration campaignSubscribe to WCVB on YouTube now for more: http://bit.ly/1e8lAMZGet more Boston new...

Join us tomorrow in-person (or online) for our Christmas Eve candlelight Lessons & Carols service, 6pm. Bundle up. Wear a mask. Join the angels in giving glory to the Maker of Heaven & Earth.

Join us in vigil & prayer tomorrow.

Feeling a little overwhelmed? Need some empowerment? Watch this 2 minute clip and give thanks for the contributions of people of faith to the wider climate justice movement. https://youtu.be/L4aK4ldRB5U ~R

Faiths 4 Climate Justice: A Grassroots, Faith-Rooted Climate Justice Movement In the weeks leading up to COP27, grassroots people of all faiths rose up around the globe in direct, public, peaceful protest to voice their deep concern ab...