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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?”
23,986 sermon illustrations through the Anabaptist lens
12/24 (2018): A helicopter crash kills Martha Érika Alonso, first female Governor of Puebla, Mexico, and her husband Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, former governor.
7/4 (1886): The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
12/25 (1831): The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up to 20% of Jamaica's slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom.
4/1 (1572): In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
7/14 (1902): Peruvian explorer and farmer Agustín Lizárraga discovers Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas".
President Ronald Reagan declares the Space Shuttle to be operational.
4/9 (1860): On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the first known recording of an audible human voice.
7/20 (1807): Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
7/4 (1776): American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
12/7 (1995): An Air Saint Martin (now Air Caraïbes) Beechcraft 1900 crashes near the Haitian commune of Belle Anse, killing 20.
1/1 (1914): The SPT Airboat Line becomes the world's first scheduled airline to use a winged aircraft.
Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.
10/31 (1918): World War I: The Aster Revolution terminates the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, and Hungary achieves full sovereignty.