Rev. Nancy S. Taylor

Here’s the question: “Is Old South Church called by God to provide sanctuary to an individual or family threatened with deportation? Are we prepared to act in violation of Federal Immigration Law?”

The Christian Service and Outreach Committee and Church Council, together, are asking the members of this church to consider this question and, in the fall, to take it to a vote. There are weighty matters to consider as we enter into a season of discernment. 

Picture this. It is July 4, 1795.  A warm, sunny Saturday in Boston. Right out those doors, on Milk Street, between this Meeting House and the home of Benjamin Franklin’s youth (his home still standing in 1795) are fifteen white horses. The horses whiny and snort, scraping hoofs impatiently against the earthen lane, shifting in their harnesses, withers twitching, tails switching.