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Black Church Tradition Illustrations

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

Poetry

John Keats

WHO killed John Keats? "I," says the Quarterly, So savage and Tartarly; "'T was one of my feats." Who shot the arrow? "The poet-priest Milman (So ready to kill man) "Or Southey, or Barrow."

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Poetry

Fragment: A Wanderer

He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

Further in Summer than the Birds

Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace...

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Emily Dickinson

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On This Day: The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite, which is also the first satellite to a

3/17 (1958): The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite, which is also the first satellite to achieve a long-term orbit.

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Poetry

So We'll Go No More a-Roving

So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright....

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Poetry

Yesterday is History,

Yesterday is History, 'Tis so far away -- Yesterday is Poetry -- 'Tis Philosophy -- Yesterday is mystery -- Where it is Today While we...

A Death blow is a Life blow to Some

A Death blow is a Life blow to Some Who till they died, did not alive become -- Who had they lived, had died but...

Epigrams

OH, Castlereagh! thou art a patriot now; Cato died for his country, so did'st thou: He perished rather than see Rome enslaved, Thou cut'st thy throat that Britain may be saved! So Castlereagh has cut his throat!--The worst Of this...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Poetry

The Clod and the Pebble

"Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair." So sang a little clod of clay, Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a pebble...

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William Blake

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On This Day: The Kingdom of Great Britain signs preliminary articles of peace with the Kingdom of France, setting

1/20 (1783): The Kingdom of Great Britain signs preliminary articles of peace with the Kingdom of France, setting the stage for the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.

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Poetry

From the Portuguese. "Tu MI Chamas". Another Version

You call me still your _Life_.--Oh! change the word-- Life is as transient as the inconstant sigh: Say rather I'm your Soul; more just that name, For, like the soul, my Love can never die.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Poetry

Talk not to me of Summer Trees

Talk not to me of Summer Trees The foliage of the mind A Tabernacle is for Birds Of no corporeal kind And winds do go...

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Emily Dickinson

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Historical

On This Day: The 2025 papal conclave elects Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, taking the name Leo XIV as the 267th

5/8 (2025): The 2025 papal conclave elects Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, taking the name Leo XIV as the 267th Pope of the Catholic Church.

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On This Day: The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the United States Congress on January 14, 1784, is ratified by King

4/9 (1784): The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the United States Congress on January 14, 1784, is ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War. Copies of the ratified documents are exchanged on May 12, 1784.

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Poetry

Spring is the Period

Spring is the Period Express from God. Among the other seasons Himself abide, But during March and April None stir abroad Without a cordial interview...

How much the present moment means

How much the present moment means To those who've nothing more -- The Fop -- the Carp -- the Atheist -- Stake an entire store...

Bless God, he went as soldiers,

Bless God, he went as soldiers, His musket on his breast -- Grant God, he charge the bravest Of all the martial blest! Please God,...

One Day is there of the Series

One Day is there of the Series Termed Thanksgiving Day. Celebrated part at Table Part in Memory. Neither Patriarch nor Pussy I dissect the Play...

Mother and Babe.

I SEE the sleeping babe, nestling the breast of its mother; The sleeping mother and babe—hush’d, I study them long and long.

To My Mother

You too, my mother, read my rhymes For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once more The little feet along the floor.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Poetry

Take your Heaven further on

Take your Heaven further on -- This -- to Heaven divine Has gone -- Had You earlier blundered in Possibly, e'en You had seen An...

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Emily Dickinson

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Historical

On This Day: A USAF RC-130 is shot down by fighters over Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conduc

All crew members are killed.

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Poetry

To Dives. a Fragment

UNHAPPY Dives! in an evil hour 'Gainst Nature's voice seduced to deeds accurst! Once Fortune's minion now thou feel'st her power; Wrath's vial on thy lofty head hath burst. In Wit, in Genius, as in Wealth the first, How wondrous bright thy blooming morn arose!

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Poetry

Nobody knows this little Rose

Nobody knows this little Rose -- It might a pilgrim be Did I not take it from the ways And lift it up to thee....

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Emily Dickinson

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