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...almost tripled in the past 15 years, and its average age is 27 years. While HTB does not keep records of these young converts' wealth, a look at its bulging collection hat offers some clue: the church raised over $7 million from donations last year alone (An average London parish, by contrast, can expect to raise around $150,000, according to data provided by the Anglican church). The church has become so popular that it recently began encouraging hundreds of its congregation to attend dying churches around London - as much to ease its own congestion than anything else...
Author Malcolm Gladwell captivated a sold-out crowd in First Parish Church last night for over an hour with the story of a single plane crash. He opened by asking how many listeners would be flying in the next month. When most hands went up, he said, “Then this is scary. But the most important thing...about this plane crash is that it’s scary not because it’s unusual. It’s scary because it’s typical.” The crash is “typical?...
...disposition and modest achievement, who watch a Clint Eastwood movie and wish they could resolve their daily dilemmas with a blast of gunfire and walk away free. Walt Kowalski might be such a one. At his wife's funeral, he can swat away the condolences of relatives and the parish priest, but he can't evict them from his life. Retired after 50 years on the Ford assembly line, Walt is as much an endangered species as the company he worked for. While he carefully maintains his house, white picket fence and all, the neighbors' homes have chipped paint...
...woman walks onto the stage of Cambridge’s First Parish Church on Monday, November 24. “A reminder,” he says. “There is no photography during the talk.” So began world-renowned photographer’s Annie Leibovitz’s reading of her latest book, “Annie Leibovitz at Work,” sponsored by the Harvard Book Store. The audience chuckles...
...Many of these talks took place at the Harvard Book Store Café on Newbury Street, which has since closed. The Boston Public Library and Cambridge First Parish Church—which can hold 700 people—have also hosted Harvard Book Store visitors...