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Liberation, exodus, and prophetic justice rooted in the African American church tradition.
Key question: “How does this text speak to the experiences of suffering, hope, and liberation within the Black community?”
25,923 sermon illustrations through the Black Church Tradition lens
10/12 (1964): The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew, and the first flight without pressure suits.
11/1 (1897): The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S.
3/17 (2000): Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere...
11/9 (1936): American fashion designer Ruth Harkness encounters and captures a nine-week-old panda cub in Sichuan; it becomes the first live giant panda to enter the United States.
1/1 (1801): Ceres, the largest and first known object in the Asteroid belt, is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
3/15 (1907): The first parliamentary elections of Finland (at the time the Grand Duchy of Finland) are held.
1/1 (1988): The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
1/1 (1860): The first Polish postage stamp is issued, replacing the Russian stamps previously in use.
1/1 (1982): Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.
7/14 (2015): NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.