When we talk about God

Last updated on: August 22, 2015 at 2:56 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

Civil Rights activist Jonathan Daniels

Last updated on: August 17, 2023 at 11:32 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

Aug. 20 marks the anniversary of the murder of white Civil Rights activist Jonathan Daniels. Faith on the Fringe has many international readers. For some, and for younger readers who may not understand the depths of the Civil Rights struggle in the United States, the death of Jonathan Daniels is a stark example of people being wantonly gunned down in broad daylight simply for demanding all Americans be treated equally. Daniels, a 26 year-old Episcopal seminary student, was killed Aug.... Read more

Religious beliefs — discrimination or dogma?

Last updated on: August 16, 2015 at 12:14 am By Jim Meisner Jr.

I was born in Kentucky. At the time of my birth, in 1967, it was illegal in Kentucky, and throughout the south, for black people to marry white people. Miscegenation laws, some of them more than 150 years old, prohibited some people from having equal access to the legal privileges of marriage that others enjoyed. Those laws were struck down June 12, 1967, with the Supreme Court decision of Loving v. Virginia. (A movie about the Loving’s story is currently... Read more