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2025-08-25T01:20:51-04:00

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Sixty-Two Years Later: MLK’s “Dream” is Far From a Reality

Last updated on: August 25, 2025 at 1:20 am By Jim Meisner Jr.

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Aug. 28, marks 62 years since Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and announced to the world that he had a dream. Today, King’s dream is far from a reality. King was having a significant 1963. That spring, King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference led demonstrations and economic boycotts in Birmingham, Ala., where the local law enforcement was notoriously anti-integration and the state’s white supremacist governor declared in his inaugural address, “segregation now,... Read more

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2024-08-18T21:15:16-04:00

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Remembering Civil Rights Activist Jonathan Daniels

Last updated on: August 18, 2024 at 9:15 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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Aug. 20 marks the anniversary of the 1965 murder of Civil Rights Activist Jonathan Daniels. Daniels, a 26-year-old Episcopal seminary student, was murdered while saving a 17-year-old African-American girl from a shotgun blast. Valedictorian of Virginia Military Institute’s Class of 1961, Daniels knew exactly what he was doing when he saw the shotgun leveled at Ruby Sales and pulled her out of the way. Daniels responded to Martin Luther King Jr.’s call for more ministers to get involved with the... Read more

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2024-08-13T14:57:03-04:00

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Trump Uses a Slur Against Harris

Last updated on: August 13, 2024 at 2:57 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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A brief Aug. 12 news story about convicted felon Donald Trump is worth noting. According to the Associated Press: “The New York Times cited two people who, on different occasions, heard Trump call Harris a “b——.” The people were granted anonymity to describe private discussions.” Trump Campaign Designated Liar Steven Cheung said, “That is not language President Trump has used to describe Kamala and it’s not how the campaign would characterize her.” Cheung is lying, of course. (Fascists use lies... Read more

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2024-08-12T02:38:43-04:00

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Remembering Civil Rights Activist Heather Heyer

Last updated on: August 12, 2024 at 2:38 am By Jim Meisner Jr.

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On Aug. 12, 2017, racists from across the country gathered in Charlottesville, Va., to joyfully celebrate one of their own in the White House and to protest the removal of segregation-era statues of Confederate leaders. Anti-American, anti-Semitic racists paraded through Charlottesville brandishing images of bigotry and hate, culminating in a racist white male driving his car into a crowd of people, killing Heather Heyer and wounding dozens. President Donald Trump repudiated the driver, but went on to defend the neo-Nazis... Read more

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2024-08-08T13:44:15-04:00

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Nagisaki: Christians Killing Christians

Last updated on: August 8, 2024 at 1:44 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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When the United States detonated a plutonium bomb over the Catholic Urakami Cathedral in Nagisaki, Japan on Aug. 9, 1945, 10,000 Christians were among the 70,000 unarmed children, women and men killed in the flash of a second. Christians killing Christians. Three days before, the U.S. dropped the first nuclear bomb on the people of Hiroshima. Six days after Nagasaki, Japan surrendered to the Allies, effectively ending the war. Americans have little of idea of the breadth of human suffering,... Read more

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2024-07-27T15:40:46-04:00

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“Is Your God too Small?”

Last updated on: July 27, 2024 at 3:40 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

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My sermon this week asks the question, “Is Your God too Small?” Usually, I don’t stand in the pulpit and say “You,” because I don’t want to sound like I’m pointing fingers at any one person. I usually say “we,” because most messages I share start with me, and extend to all of us. You, me, the people in the pews and anyone else with ears to hear. But this week I specifically ask each person to think about you... Read more

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2024-07-16T11:30:27-04:00

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The Day I Met Richard Simmons

Last updated on: July 16, 2024 at 11:30 am By Jim Meisner Jr.

Richard Simmons bounded onto the stage at the lady’s show with the same energy he seemed to approach everything else. I wasn’t there to see him, but enjoyed watching him lead more than 100 people of all ages through a series of exercises as pulsing music blared. I’d grown up with my overweight mother “rolling around on the floor,” she called it, watching Richard Simmons’ daily exercise show. Richard showed ‘before’ photos of him massively overweight and then lifted his... Read more

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2024-07-21T20:51:00-04:00

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President Biden Must Arrest Donald Trump

Last updated on: July 21, 2024 at 8:51 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

For the good of the country, President Biden must arrest Donald Trump immediately. No longer running for re-election and susceptible to charges of partisanship, Biden must use the authority given to him on July 1, 2024, by the United States Supreme Court. Biden has the unquestionable and absolute executive authority to have Trump arrested and detained until his Jan. 6 trail is complete. Presidents have had the authority to suspend habeas corpus for more than 150 years. Since the Donald... Read more

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2024-07-01T16:18:49-04:00

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U.S. Foreign Policy Must Change in Israel

Last updated on: July 1, 2024 at 4:18 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

U.S. foreign policy must change in Israel. The perpetual war of the military–industrial complex has been perfected in Gaza. While the United States supplies food to starving Palestinians it also supplies weapons to the Israeli government that is starving Palestinian people. “Israeli authorities are not only failing to facilitate the international aid effort but are actively hindering it,” said Oxfam Mideast Director Sally Abi Khalil early on in the conflict. With seemingly unlimited resources, the US can supply both sides... Read more

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2024-06-27T11:18:23-04:00

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Christians Must Reject Donald Trump

Last updated on: June 27, 2024 at 11:18 am By Jim Meisner Jr.

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Christians must reject Donald Trump. A lying, unprincipled, unrepentant criminal who stole from his charity, his contractors, and creditors, Trump has no moral compass. He embodies everything evil and everything Evangelical Christians warned against for 60 years. Evangelicals told us not to support Bill Clinton because of his sexual immorality, saying repeatedly that character matters. Trump is everything immoral about Clinton, cubed, and Trump apologists continue to support him. He’s assaulted women and bragged about it. He has been fined... Read more

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