Today the Episcopal Church commemorates the martyrdom of Jonathan Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian, who went to Selma in 1965 to support the freedom struggle. On Aug 20 he was killed by a shotgun-wielding county deputy after pushing aside 17-yr-old , saving her life.
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"I began to discover a new freedom in the Cross: freedom to love the enemy; and in that freedom, the freedom to will and to try to set him free."--Jonathan Daniels
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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