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Radical discipleship, pacifism, and the church as a distinct counter-cultural community.
Key question: “How does this text call the community of faith to live as a distinct, counter-cultural witness to the Kingdom?”
24,057 sermon illustrations through the Anabaptist lens
1/1 (1987): The Isleta Pueblo tribe elect Verna Williamson to be their first female governor.
3/15 (1892): The Lobau bombing is one of the first attacks of the Ère des attentats (1892-1894).
11/11 (1949): The People's Liberation Army Air Force is founded.
8/6 (1861): Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria.
10/31 (1822): Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Congress of the Mexican Empire.
1/1 (1958): The European Economic Community is established.
7/4 (1634): The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada).
12/25 (1870): Wagner's Siegfried Idyll is first performed.
5/8 (1898): The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
1/1 (1990): David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
5/1 (1894): Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
11/9 (1791): The Dublin Society of United Irishmen is founded.
10/12 (1849): The city of Manizales, Colombia, is founded by 'The Expedition of the 20'.
7/20 (1810): Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
7/4 (2008): A bomb explodes at a concert in Minsk's Independence Square, injuring 50 people.
7/4 (1927): First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
4/22 (1500): Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil (discovery of Brazil).
6/6 (1844): The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
3/15 (2011): Beginning of the Syrian revolution.
11/1 (1570): The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.
10/12 (1928): An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital.
10/12 (1279): The Nichiren Shōshū branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan.
9/11 (1758): Battle of Saint Cast: France repels British invasion during the Seven Years' War.