Sundays & More

Sunday Services
From September through June, we have Sunday services for individuals seeking to grow their involvement in a welcoming and family-friendly community fully rooted in justice work. Our 11:00 am Speakers Forum is a time to hear from inspiring and thought-provoking speakers around social justice topics. Music adds a wonderful dimension to the service, and the musicians vary from week to week. We leave time for dialogue with our speaker before gathering at 12:45 pm for lunch.

Membership Sunday
On the first Sunday of each month, we celebrate individuals who wish to become members of Community Church of Boston. We take time during the 11:00 am service when individuals can, as they desire, come forward and sign our Membership Book – a brief yet purposeful ritual symbolizing a commitment not only from the individual to the congregation, but also from the congregation to the individual.

2022/23 SERVICES & EVENTS:

Watch the following Sunday’s services
and more on YouTube:
or click on the speakers’ names below to watch their presentations
 

April 6th @7PM
The Music of Joni Mitchell @ CCB 

 

April 7th @ 11am
“Nazis of Copley Square:
The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front”

with Charles Gallagher, S.J.


March 24th @11AM ET
“Professor Gerald Horne on the Genocide of Gaza, US Foreign Policies, and Domestic US Politics”
with Dr. Gerald Horne

March 15th @7PM ET
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on Gaza, Ukraine, China and Taiwan, and Iran and the Gulf States

 

March 17th @11AM ET
“How to Survive a Genocide as the World Changes?”
with Mazin Qumsiyeh

 

March 10th @11AM ET
“Skirting History: Holocaust Refugee to Dissenting Citizen”
with Eva Moseley

 

March 3rd @11AM ET
“Integration, Ethics, & Action:
Yoga for Personal and Collective Change”
with Kate Pousont Scarborough

 

February 25th @11AM ET
“The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War”
with Chad Williams

 

February 18th @11AM ET
“How Our Past Informs Our Present
& Future: An Archive Dive”
with Community Church Members

 

February 11th @11AM ET
“Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza
and the Danger of an Escalating War”

with Trita Parsi

January 28th @11AM ET
“W. E. B. DuBois’s 1928 romance novel ‘Dark Princess’
and why BLACK LOVE MATTERS”
with Rev. Irene Monroe

January 21st @11AM ET
“Who are These Russians and Why Do We Hate Them” 
with Regis Tremblay

 

January 14th at 11 am
“Freedom for Gaza, Freedom for All:
Honoring MLK’s Dream by Saying NO to Militarism”
with Khury Petersen-Smith

 

January 7th at 11 am
“El periodismo y la democracia en Guatemala”
(Journalism and Democracy in Guatemala)
con Eslly Melgarejo y Diego Silva

 

December 17th at 11 am
“A Changing World Economy:
G7, BRICS, Capitalism and Socialism”
with Richard Wolff

 

December 14th at 7 pm
Max Blumenthal on Israel’s Genocide of Gaza”

 

December 10th at 11 am
“Israel, Palestine, and The Nakba”
with Linda Dittmar

 
CCB Virtual Tuesday: December 5th at 12 Noon ET
“The Israeli Genocide of Gaza;
featuring Sami Al-Arian
 

December 3rd at 1 pm
“The 2023 Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial Award”
The Peace Abbey

 

Sunday, November 26th at 11AM:
“Indigenous Perspectives”
with Robert Peters

 

Sunday, November 19th at 11AM:
“Embracing Your Identity”
with Puja Kranz-Howe

 

November 17th at 7PM ET
“A Tribute to Geoff Bartley‘s Cantab Open Mic”


Sunday, November 12th at 11AM:
“On Assignment From El Salvador”
with Sue Kranz and José Alemán

 

Sunday, November 5th at 11AM:
“‘To Fill the Entire World with Plenty:’ One Story of How Labor Began to Organize in New England”
with Andy Davis

Sunday, October 29th at 11AM:
“Mexican Day of the Dead: A Blood Bond to the Spirit World”

with Pedro Noé Morales

 

Sunday, October 22nd at 11AM:
“The Roots of Radicalism”

with Edward Curtin

 

Sunday, October 15th at 11AM:
“Mumia Abu-Jamal: The Path to Freedom”

with Noelle Hanrahan

 

Sunday, October 8th at 11AM:
“Rescuing God from Religion:
Spirituality & Sinéad O’Connor’s Art”
with Brenna Moore

 

Thursday, September 7th at 7PM
“Defeating Israeli Apartheid:
In Defense of Palestinian Existence & American Free Expression”
with Omah Baddar

Wednesday, August 23rd at 7PM
Remembering Sacco & Vanzetti:
“‘Cultural Manifestations of ‘The Case That Will Not Die'”

Thursday, August 10th at 7PM
“Sustainability & Biodiversity Conservation
in the Age of the Anthropocene: Can Palestine set a global example?”
with Mazin Qumsiyeh

Sunday, June 18th at 11 AM
“Landmarks of Slavery and Freedom Perspectives of a Public Historian”
with Dr. Robert Bellinger

Sunday, June 11th at 11 AM
“‘Shake Off Your Chains’: The Story Behind ‘Songs of Slavery & Emancipation’”
A Film Screening
with Mat Callahan

Sunday, June 4 at 11 AM
“Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother”

with Anne Sebba

Sunday, May 28th at 11 AM
“Keeping President Kennedy’s Struggle for World Peace Alive”

with Martin Schotz

Sunday, May 21st at 11 AM
“A Life In Three Acts: Peace, Porn and Prayer”

with Rev. Barry Lynn

Sunday, May 14th at 11 AM
“Randy Credico For President”
with Randy Credico

Sunday, May 7th at 11 AM
“Being Robin-Spirit or Delusion”
with Roger Kabler

Sunday, April 30th at 11 AM
“Behind the Scenes of the Award Winning Film ‘Los Hermanos’”
with Ilmar López Gavilán

Sunday, April 23rd at 11 AM
“End The Fossil Fuel Addiction that Feeds Putin and Biden’s War Machine”
with Svitlana Romanko

Sunday, April 16th at 11 AM
“The Struggle For Ecological Socialism”
with Victor Wallis

Sunday, April 9th at 11 AM
“How to Save a Planet” (Before It’s Too Late)
with Julia Hansen

Sunday, April 2nd at 11 AM
“Manufacturing Heroes, Marketing Dreams: Who Was the
Real Martin Luther King Jr. at the End of His Life?”
with Allen Pérez Somarribas

Sunday, March 26h at 11 AM
“No More War”
with Sabrina Salvati

Sunday, March 19th at 11 AM
“Art & Activism for Palestine”
with Katie Miranda and Bshara Nassar

Sunday, March 5th at 11 AM
“Stories from the Americans
Who Tell the Truth Portrait Project”
with Robert Shetterly

Sunday, February 26th at 11 AM
“Black & Red: The Life of W. E. B. DuBois
& His Legacy Today”
with Clayton “Nino” Brown

Sunday, February 19th at 11 AM:
“Fighting for Women’s Right to their Whole Bodies: Stopping FGM in Mali” 
with Susan McLucas

Sunday, February 12th at 11 AM
“CCB, Diego Mendoza Lacán (Manuel Hernandez)”

with Rady Roldán – Figueroa

Sunday, February 5th at 11 AM
“What family do you belong to?” With Steve Downs
with Steve Downs

Sunday, January 29th at 11 AM
“The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us”

with Richard Wolff

Sunday, January 22nd at 11 AM
“The Challenges of Writing About a Revolutionary Who Was Also a Poet:
The Case of Roque Dalton”
with Jim Iffland

Sunday, January 15th at 11 AM
“Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”
with Letta Neely

Sunday, January 8th at 11 AM
“Remembering Howard Zinn”
with Jeff Zinn

Music by Dean Stevens

Sunday, December 18th at 11 AM
The 2022 Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial Award to
SURVIVORS Of The USA’s WAR ON TERROR:

with The Holy Land Foundation Five and Sami Al Arian

Sunday, December 11th at 11 AM
“Children of Our Environments: US-Cuba Solidarity”
with Calla Walsh
Music by Emma’s Revolution

Sunday, December 4th at 11 AM
The Intersectionality of Racism, Oppression, and Anti-Semitism”
with Rev. Irene Monroe
Music by Beatrice Greene

Sunday, November 27th at 11 AM
Bob D’Attilio Day”

Sunday, November 20th at 11 AM
Why Should You Care? Tran”
with Letta Neely

Sunday, November 13th at 11 AM
“Fighting Fascism: What’s Next in Electoral Battle
with mark Solomon

Sunday, November 6th at 11 AM
“The Poets’ Theatre Reads
T. S. Eliot’s THE WASTE LAND”
with Poets’ Theatre
(Paula Langton, Lloyd Schwartz, Ken Cheeseman, & David Gullette)

Sunday, October 30th at 11 AM
“God, John F. Kennedy, and Russia” 
with Amar Ahmad

Sunday, October 23 at 11 PM:
Abolishing Prisons and Giving Life to Something New”
with Rev. Jason Lydon

Sunday, October 16 at 11 PM:
The Coming War on China(watch the film)
with John Pilger

Sunday, October 9 at 11 PM:
“Free Leonard Peltier Now”
with Jean Roche & Carol Gokee

Tuesday, August 23 at 7 PM:
“Remembering Sacco & Vanzetti” with Catherine Marenghi
Special Guest Speaker Gov. Mike Dukakis

 
Saturday, August 14 at 7 PM:
“The Current Landscape in Media and Politics: Ukraine, Palestine & More”
with Katie Halper
Music by Dean Stevens

Sunday, July 14th at 11 AM:
“Revolutionary Blackout Network discussing Left Media, Mutual Aid, Censorship and More”
with James Fauntleroy, Josanna Vaz, & Sabrina Salvati 

Sunday, June 19th at 11 AM:
“Slavery and Segregation in Antebellum Massachusetts: The Law of Shaw”
with Gregory Williams
Music by Mat Callahan & Yvonne Moore

Sunday, June 19th at 11 AM:
“Slavery and Segregation in Antebellum Massachusetts: The Law of Shaw”
with Gregory Williams
Music by Mat Callahan & Yvonne Moore

Sunday, June 12th at 11 AM:
“Sacco & Vanzetti, and the Rosenbergs”
with Leonard Lehrman and Helene Williams, special guest Christopher Remkus

Sunday, June 5th at 11 AM:
“Gangsters of Capitalism”
with Jonathan M. Katz
Music by David Roth

Sunday, May 29th at 11 AM:
“Is There a Purpose for Memorial Day”
with Matthew Hoh
Music by Magpie

Sunday, May 22nd at 11 AM:
“Learning from Hiroshima, Peace Memorial City”
with Madelyn Holmes
Lisa Redfern

Sunday, May 15th at 11 AM:
“Recollection, Revision, and Reframing”
with Andy Davis and Eroc Arroyo
Music by Andy Davis and Eroc Arroyo

Sunday, May 8th at 11 AM:
“My Mother, Music and Dementia”
with Joel Light
Music by Elise Witt

Sunday, May 1st at 11 AM:
“The Dream of Debs: Eugene V. Debs and

the Rise of Socialism and Industrial Unionism 
with Steve Kellerman
Music by CommUnity Voices

Sunday, April 24th at 11 AM:
“Local Impact for Planetary Climate Action”

with Kate Crosby and Laura Burns
Music by Eric Kilburn

Friday, April 22nd at 7 PM ET:
“Story Telling as Solidarity”
with Jen Marlowe & Gabriella Haddad

Sunday, April 17th at 11 AM:
“Collective Power For Climate Change”
with Scott Vlaun
Music by Oen Kennedy

Sunday, April 10th at 11 AM:
“Afghan Voices in Terrible Times:

Films and Filmmakers”
with  Michael Sheridan & Afghan filmmakers

Sunday, April 3rd at 11 AM:
“Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought”
with Kristen Waters
Music by Reggie Harris

Sunday, March 27th at 11 AM:
“Documenting LGBTQ+ Boston”
with Joan ILacqua
Music by Asliani

Sunday, March 20th at 11 AM:
“Art and Activism: Women’s Wisdom Project”
with Anna Brones
Music by Squeezebox Stompers (Ralph Tufo & Larry Plitt)

Sunday, March 13th at 11 AM:
Public Banking for Racial/Social Justice”
with Ruth Caplan & Nia Evans
Music by David Rovics

Sunday, March 4th at 11 AM:
“The Earth Defenders”
with Alfred Brownell, Jr.
Music by Helder Tsinine & Kina Zoré

Sunday, February 27th at 11 AM:
W. E. B. DuBois Lecture
with Tony Van Der Meer
Music by Fulani Haynes & Michael Shea

Sunday, February 13th at 11 AM:
“A Murmuration of Poets: Poets’ Theatre”
with the Poets’ Theatre

Sunday, February 6th at 11 AM:
“My Nicaraguan High School:
Second Chances For People Who Never Thought They’d Have One”
with Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Music by Moira Smiley

Sunday, January 30th at 11 AM:
“Reflections on the moment: From Covid to
War in Space…and lots in-between”
(from Crimea and Maine)
with Regis Tremblay & Bruce Gagnon
music by Cosy Sheridan & Charlie Koch

Sunday, January 23rd at 11 AM:
“Salmon, Dams, and the Inland Northwest Rivers They Influence”
with Mark Martin
music by Dean Stevens

Sunday, January 16th at 11 AM:
“Martin Luther King, Jr.: An Appreciation”
with Charles Coe
music by Tem Blessed

Sunday, January 9th at 11 AM:
“Choosing Between Liberation & Climate Catastrophe”
with Nick Rabb
music by Steve Tilston

Sunday, January 2nd at 11 AM:
“Myths of Modern History”
with Jacques R. Pauwels
music by Rod MacDonald

Sunday, December 19th at 11 AM:
“Wake Up America. This is Who We Are.”
with Rev. Irene Monroe
music by Beatrice Greene

Sunday, December 12th at 11 AM:
“Feminism Against Family”
with Sophie Lewis
Karen Klein, poetry & dance

Sunday, December 5th at 11 AM:
“Beyond Afghanistan: Patriotic Dissent Against U.S. Militarism”
with Maj. Danny Sjursen

music by David Rovics

Sunday, November 28 at 11 AM:
“Poetry and Questions: Cuba and Nicaragua”
with Margaret Randall
music by Dean Stevens

Sunday, November 21 at 11 AM:
“Live & in Concert at CCB: “Song To A Refugee”
with Diana Jones

Sunday, November 7 at 11 AM:
“We Are All Part of One Another:
Reflecting on Accountability in a Time of War”

with Kathy Kelly
music by Emma’s Revolution

Sunday, October 24 at 11 AM:
“STOP THE PIPELINE:
Enbridge Line 3 Activists Speak Out”
with Winona LaDuke
music by Magpie
 
Sunday, October 17 at 11 AM:
“20 Years of Demilitarization: Building our Hopeful Future”
with Khury Petersen-Smith
music by Fulani Haynes, vocals & Michael Shea, piano
 
April 4 – August 23, 2021 

April 12, 2020 – January 10, 2021 Here! 

January 10 – March 14, 2021 below:
(click on the date to watch)

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Watch services live on YouTube or in Person.
If you choose to attend a church program in person, please wear a mask and practice social distancing.

Every Sunday lunch or refreshments served after the program.

All Programs are held on the second floor in the Lothrop Auditorium.

Small elevator, wheelchair accessible.

CCB is located near the Orange line-Back Bay or the Green line-Copley T Stops. On Street Parking and at Back Bay Parking Garage, 199 Clarendon Street. Discount Vouchers available for parking in the garage.

Community Church of Boston is located at
565 Boylston Street, 2nd fl., Boston, MA 02116

web: www.communitychurchofboston.org;
email: info@communitychurchofboston.org; tel: 617-266-6710