Jonathan Myrick Daniels

[RevDeac06]

Today, in the Episcopal Church, we commemorate Jonathan Myrick Daniels. I'm offering this post because his is a powerful story, but not widely known.

You can read about him on Wikipedia, or in a more churchy setting.

The basics are that he was a seminarian who heeded a call from MLK to go to Selma and ended up staying longer than just one protest and eventually was killed protecting a young girl from a man with a shotgun. King would later say "One of the most heroic Christian deeds of which I have heard in my entire ministry was performed by Jonathan Daniels."

Hope you find his story to be interesting/inspiring.

 

[TownieDeac]

Thanks for sharing. Interesting to read about guys like this who played their role, no matter how small, at such a pivotal part of the CRM.

I think perhaps the key point to me after reading the links is how he saw that simply leaving Selma after such a short time was just not a good option for the community, akin to just showing up and abandoning it.

I've heard programs like Teach for America that service underpriveleged and underfunded areas criticized for similarly entering a community, doing great work, and leaving so shortly after you arrived. Nobody is discounting the good being done, but it's like a band-aid on a gaping wound that is nowhere close to healing.

Thanks again for sharing. Nice story.