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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
This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.
10/31 (1923): The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.
4/9 (1959): Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
6/19 (1785): The Boston King's Chapel adopts James Freeman's revised prayer book, without the Nicene Creed, establishing it as the first Unitarian congregation in the United States.
4/9 (1952): Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines
6/19 (1978): Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.
2/12 (1818): Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
The change has been ordered by Governor-General Narciso Claveria to reform the country's calendar so that it aligns with the rest of Asia. Its territory has been one day behind the rest of Asia for 323 years since the arrival...
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.
2/14 (1929): Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
1/1 (1773): The hymn that becomes known as "Amazing Grace", previously titled "1 Chronicles 17:16-17, Faith's Review and Expectation", is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.