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A pastor’s dream, a Roxbury church in crisis

Proud Roxbury church, buried deep in debt, leans on the courts and faith to survive

In the past two years, Charles Street has fought off lawsuits, stalled a foreclosure, and staved off a foreclosure auction. Now as the church looks to restructure, some in the pews are asking: How did things go so wrong for Charles Street?

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this whole city and state is run by people acting above their competence so, welcome to the club. ya know bank one whatever and it's leader cohee, thanks to the print media, have been living well above their means for some time and it's obvious the good rev. reached too high without any sort of due dilligence. sounds like a perfect marriage to me. ma

on the other hand since we're talking about levels of incompetence and none reach higher than our governor and mayor and boston city council(all of em) just maybe those 3 can once again conspire to do what they did for poor LIBERTY MUTUAL who makes their own CEO get by these lost 4 years on a paltry $50 MILLION BUCKOS PER, by awarding that company a measly $46.5 DOLLAR TAX SUBSIDY by awarding that poor church a pittance of say a 4 or 5 million dollar tax break. otherwise, the good rev. groover can do what the blithering nitwits mouthpiece dot joyce said LIBERTY MUTUAL threatened to do and move the whole church and the good rev. groover to dover new hampshire. BTW, DOT JOYCE lied through her pearly whites on that one.ma

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ffffff

It's principal, not principle!!

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Rev.Groover is a good and decent man. I feel for him right now.