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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?”
24,180 sermon illustrations through the Anglican lens
1/1 (1788): The first edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
11/22 (1963): U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. Tippit after fleeing the scene. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn...
11/9 (1965): A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
9/2 (1192): The Treaty of Jaffa is signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Third Crusade.
3/15 (493): Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, is slain by Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, while the two kings were feasting together.
2/14 (1990): The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.
9/11 (1776): British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
4/22 (1944): World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
11/9 (2005): The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
11/1 (1896): A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
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.
5/8 (1927): Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.