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The future is a source of both wonder and of dread. We can expect change ahead, but what can we anticipate? We want to believe the future will be better, but for whom? Better in what way? And with what loss? It might be easier to think of responding to what is immediately at our doorstep, to leave the future to take care of itself. However, the future is in many ways already on us, with technological and social change the norm, with novel developments and devastating crises closer than we may want to admit. But the difficulty of thinking about the future does not abdicate our responsibility to it – the concerted effort to be able to respond

As Old Cambridge Baptist Church looks back to 1844 and celebrates its 175th anniversary year as a congregation, we make a point to stop and honor that which has come before, reviewing the figures and transitions that make us who we are. We consider not only our own people, but also how our wider community has responded to events and contexts that have shaped our ministry and service and the world we live in. Through these years, we met challenges and ruptures, but sought to be a prophetic witness to a gospel of inclusion, of peacemaking, and of justice. Now we turn our attention toward the future. 

Not to predict the future, but to perform it.

To think and feel the future, not as something coming at us, but as erupting from the present.

Who do we want to become?

How does thinking about and feeling the future guide actions and ideas in the present?

What can we say about a future that at once seems filled with possibility and also with catastrophe?

 

Join us for an afternoon of exploration, imagination, and conversation about our world, our lives, and our collective future.