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Stories by
Lane Lambert

How religion has shaped
our culture on the South Shore
A three-part series

PART 1 — From parish and mosque to storefront and synagogue, South Shore believers worship with a myriad of rituals – stately Congregational hymns, Portuguese-language liturgies, praise songs, Arabic Quran recitations and Chinese sutras. Once the domain of the Calvinist Anglican dissenters like the Pilgrims and now among the most Catholic areas of the country, the South Shore has become a 21st-century home to pilgrims of global diversity. Click to read this story

PART 2 — At First Parish Church in Plymouth, the Rev. Sarah Clark and her fellow Unitarians proudly trace an unbroken lineage back four centuries, to William Bradford’s company and its predecessor congregation in Scrooby, England. But First Parish isn’t the only church in “America’s Hometown” that lays claim to the Pilgrims’ religious heritage, in name if not spirit. Click to read this story

PART 3 — Lifelong Congregational church member Betty DeCristofaro calls the Quincy Point neighborhood "God’s country." And so it is, in ways her parents and grandparents might never have imagined. The ward once known for the historic Fore River shipyard is now home to the greatest concentrated diversity of religions and houses of worship to be found anywhere in the south of Boston area. Click to read this story