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Scripture, Tradition, and Reason — the "three-legged stool" — seeking the via media.
Key question: “How do we faithfully interpret this text using the wisdom of Scripture, Church tradition, and God-given Reason?”
24,143 sermon illustrations through the Anglican lens
Gather, O gather, Foeman and friend in love and peace! Waves sleep together When the blasts that called them to battle, cease. For fangless Power grown tame and mild Is at play with Freedom's fearless child-- The dove and the serpent reconciled!
11/1 (1937): Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
6/19 (1990): The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
9/2 (1960): The first election of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.
6/19 (1586): English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
5/8 (1877): At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.
President Ronald Reagan declares the Space Shuttle to be operational.
7/4 (2015): Chile claims its first title in international football by defeating Argentina in the 2015 Copa América Final.
8/6 (1824): Peruvian War of Independence: Patriot forces led by Simón Bolívar defeat the Spanish Royalist army in the Battle of Junín.
7/14 (1853): Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
10/31 (1517): Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
9/11 (1980): A new constitution of Chile is established under the influence of then Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, which is subject to controversy in Chile today.