From Alabama-
"O God, look with compassion on the whole human family; take away the arrogance and hatred which infect our hearts; break down the walls that separate us; unite us in bonds of love; and work through struggle and confusion to accomplish your purposes on earth; that all nations and races may serve you in harmony around your heavenly throne."
On Saturday this prayer, offered by Alabama Bishop Suffragan Kee Sloan, brought me to my knees while also causing me to tremble.
Along with about 200 others, I was standing in front of the former Cash Grocery Store in Hayneville, where Jonathan Myrick Daniels was fatally shot at point-blank range 45 years ago.
Daniels, a 26-year-old white Episcopal seminarian from New Hampshire, answered the call of Martin Luther King Jr. asking that students and clergy come to Selma to take part in a march to the state capital. When his seminary classmates returned home afterwards, Daniels chose to stay in Selma to continue his work in the Civil Rights Movement.
More here-
http://blog.al.com/living-times/2010/08/pilgrimage_report_martyrs_of_a.html
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