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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?”
24,021 sermon illustrations through the Anabaptist lens
7/4 (1966): U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
11/1 (1848): In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
12/25 (1915): The National Protection War breaks out against the Empire of China, as military leaders Cai E and Tang Jiyao proclaim the independence of Yunnan and begin a campaign to restore the Republic.
12/25 (1814): Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay.
11/9 (694): At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
This becomes known as "The Miracle on the Hudson" as all 155 people on board were rescued.
1/15 (2020): The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare confirms the first case of COVID-19 in Japan.