Submitted by janice graves, Oct 30, 2007 08:27

I am a member of the Old South Church in Boston. I am an individual member and my views do not represent those of the church. I of course have an opinion on how the Old South Church is being negatively covered in the media including the recent letter printed in the media from Temple Israel.

The Old South Church DID NOT HOST THE SABEEL CONFERENCE. Sabeel rented the church space for their conference. The church rents space to many groups in order to support the running of the building which by the way is on the national historical site list.

The "HATE AT THE ALTAR" piece in the newspaper reflects a view of someone who has the word hate in there vocabury to begin with. Does that not say what type of source this is ?. The front sign photo "BLAME THE JEWS" has never been posted by a church member, sexton or minister. The gospel of Christ's love for us is what is preached on a weekly basis.

On Sunday october 28 Old South sponsored a forum where the well respected Rabbi Arthur Wascok (Spelling OFF?) of the Shalom Center of philly, penn spoke. Two more forums are planned for the fall.

I have nothing against Temple Israel but just type in Rabbi Ronne Friedman name in google with Reverend's Nancy Taylor name - they both have been at few events together. Would it not have been better to approach the Old South Church who employs Reverend Nancy Taylor as its Senior Pastor in a more peacefull way other then through the media?. Do you really think the letter has helped or hurt a relationship between two faith communities?.

if it were not for the Old South Meeting House (our forebearers) where the American Revolution began. Then would we not all be speaking the Queen's English here in America. We have been around 338 years and little conserversy is not such a bad thing.

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