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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
2/14 (1778): The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
Winter is good -- his Hoar Delights Italic flavor yield To Intellects inebriate With Summer, or the World -- Generic as a Quarry And hearty...
11/1 (1954): The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
5/1 (1844): Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
10/12 (2010): The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program airs controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"), which leads to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
12/24 (2018): A helicopter crash kills Martha Érika Alonso, first female Governor of Puebla, Mexico, and her husband Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, former governor.
12/25 (1989): Romanian Revolution: Deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena, are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial.
11/22 (1574): Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
11/9 (2011): The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m.
1/15 (1966): The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
10/12 (1945): The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence.
1/1 (1982): Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.
1/15 (2005): ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.
5/8 (1788): King Louis XVI of France attempts to impose the reforms of Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne by abolishing the parlements.